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"Not a-course," he added deprecatingly, "meanin' that anything like that would be likely to happen to you. Seein' as you didn't exactly understand, I wouldn't take no steps against you." And, even more encouragingly, "I doubt if I'd hev any legal right to proceed against anybody without seeing Den without seeing the rightful owner first."
Joel Ham shook his head. 'I teach your children, he said. 'I neither hang nor flagellate your criminals. 'No, no, a-course not, said Peterson. 'Might you be able to spare us this boy fer the rest o' the afternoon, in the name o' the committee? asked Cann. 'We'll go an' argue with his mother to leave the lickin' of him to the committee. 'As a question o' public interest, said Peterson.
Of course they are; but if they'd been in England God bless her, the dear old obstinate soul! they'd have been drove crazy along o' pipeclay and razors; she'd never have seed what was in 'em, her eyes are so bunged up with routine. If a pup riot in the pack, she's no notion but to double-thong him, and, a-course, in double-quick time, she finds herself obliged to go further and hang him.
"A-course I didn't mean nothin' when I spoke about complainin' against the Judge," he called back. "You know that, don't you, Denny? You know I was just jokin', don't you?" A vaguely worried, appealing strain crept into the cracked accents. "An' a-course you wouldn't say nothin' about my speakin' like that.
You're a gentleman a right on rare thing that is and being a gentleman, a-course you'd be too generous and too proud like not to behave well to me, whether I was a-serving you as I've always served you, or a-insulting of you by riding over your head in that way as we're speaking on. But I know my place, sir, and I know yours. If it wasn't for that ere Black Hawk damn him!
An' a-course there's a fool half-breed kid who's got to chase after it, thinkin' to do Peg-leg a good turn. "I don't know nothin' about this, but jes' stand there talkin' back to Peg-leg, an' pre-tendin' I ain't got no misgivings, when I sees this kid comin' a-cavoortin' an' a-cayoodlin' down the street with the leg in his hands, hollerin' out: "'Here's your leg, Mister Peg-leg!
We've been fooling around, just putting in our time and drawing wages, when we could be owning our own grazing land by now and shipping our own cattle, if we had enough sense to last us overnight. "A-course, I ain't crazy about turning nester, myself but we've let things slide till we've got to come through or get outa the game. It's a fact, boys, about them dry-farmers coming in on us.
"A-course, we're pretty bad when we get started, all right. We're liable to ride up on dark nights and shoot our enemies through the window I can't deny it, Miss Allen. And if it comes right to a show-down, I may as well admit that some of us would think nothing at all of taking a man out and hanging him to the first three we come to, that was big enough to hold him.
I just thought I'd tell yuh," he added casually, straightening up, "because I didn't think you knew it before." "Thanks." The man smiled one-sidedly and began filling a pipe while he watched them. "A-course it won't be much trouble to move your shack," Andy continued with neighborly interest. "A wheelbarrow will take it, easy.
I'd complain, too I'd complain to the authorities at Washington, only only" his thin, high-pitched voice dropped suddenly to a furtively conciliating whisper "only a-course I don't want to make no trouble for the Judge." Denny Bolton cleared his throat and shuffled his feet uneasily, but this hint for haste was utterly wasted upon Old Jerry.
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