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It's Casey Ryan that's tellin' yuh, an' yuh better heed what he says, before you're tore from limb to limb!" "B-but, Casey! This 'ere's a shurf's possy!" The voice of Barney rose in a protesting 'squawk. "I brung 'em all the way over here to your rescue! They brung a cor'ner to view your remains! Don't you know your pardner, BARNEY OAKES? "Ah-h I know yuh think I don't?
He had already taken off his coat, rolled it up for a pillow, and lain down on one of the wooden benches in our cell. I was preparing to do the same. Upstairs we heard the front door slam, as Justin, and the last of the "possy," left the police-station. "S-s-s-t!" This came from the banjo-player's cell. "Watch this, boys!" I looked out the barred door of our cell, and so did Mr.
I'll take the whole possy sky-hootin' with me when ye come." He was drunk with power suddenly revealed to him. He lifted the sack out of the hole and, paying no heed to some apparent expostulations of Mrs. Luce, he staggered away up the hillside into the beech growth, bowed under his burden.
"Keep 'em all out!" shouted the constable, "keep 'em all out, except members of the possy!" The "possy" seemed to consist of Eb himself, the men who were guarding us, five or six of them and Gregory the Gauger. I never found out just what office he held, but he was clearly the most important man of the lot, except Eb.
Widow Cleary's affair was an unlucky one for me, and indeed, Mat, it was the activity and resolution that I displayed in making herself and her spawn of ragged brats prisoners at the head of the Possy Comeatus, aided by the military, that first brought me into notice with the Castle."
I don't believe they'll do any cutting across." "I betche old Dunk'll make it interestin' fer this outfit, just the same," Happy Jack predicted. "Tyin' up three men uh hisn, like that, and ropin' their tent and draggin' it off, ain't things he'll pass up. He'll have a possy out here you see if he don't!" "In that case, I'll be sorry for you, Happy," purred Miguel close beside him.
He got his possy together again, an' he says he'll have 'em back if it takes a leg, an' when he gets 'em he'll set over 'em night an' day, with a shot-gun. Gee!" He hit the horse another slap with the reins, and then turned to grin at me through a gap where four front teeth were missing. He was a jolly looking boy, with a round, red face like the rising moon.
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