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"It wuz great luck," whispered The Bat to Brown Bear, a little later, "that the challenge to the bow an' arrow should a-been made to perhaps the only white in all the West who could a-done sech a thing." The belt bearers spent a second night in the same lodge, and on the morning of the third day they announced that they must depart for their own village.
"She's fit for nought save to sift flour and cleanse vessels when we have a-done with them. And she hasn't a decent kirtle, never name a hood. I wouldn't be seen in her company for forty shillings." "Saundrina's been at Father to put her forth," added Ricarda, "if he could but hear of some service in the country, where little plenishing were asked.
Ef I'd a-done ennythin' I'd run, kase I don't b'lieve more'n ennybody else in a, man's stayin' ter let de law git a holt on him; but when I hain't done nary ting, ther ain't nobody ez kin drive me outen my tracks." "But the Ku Klux mout lift ye outen 'em," said the other with a weak attempt at wit. "Jes let 'em try it once!" said Nimbus, excitedly.
And then he kind of chucked it in casual that as the little man didn't seem to take much stock in Palomitas maybe he'd a-done as well if he'd stuck at home.
"I couldn't have done it no betther mesilf! Ye can well-nigh swing a cat round, which it would a poozled ye to a-done afore, faix. An' sure, Misther Gray-ham, does ye loike bayin' at say yit?" "Of course I do," I answered. "Why shouldn't I?" "Begorra, ye're a caution!" he ejaculated. "An', did that haythin, Ching Wang, wake ye up this mornin' wid some coffee, as he promised me.
"It will give the strike a black eye, especially if Henderson croaks," he worried, when he came home. "They'll hang Frank on record time. Besides, we'll have to put up a defense, an' lawyers charge like Sam Hill. They'll eat a hole in our treasury you could drive every team in Oakland through. An' if Frank hadn't ben screwed up with whisky he'd never a-done it.
You ought not to a-done it." She took the money in trembling fingers. It seemed incredible that the man was returning it to her. "But I knew it," she said finally. "Knew what?" asked Billy. "I knew you was a good boy. They said you was a murderer." Billy's brows contracted, and an expression of pain crossed his face. "How did they come to say that?" he asked.
Samson stepped back again, and searched the faces of the group for any lingering sign of mirth or criticism. There was none. Every countenance was sober and expressionless, but the boy felt a weight of unuttered disapproval, and he glared defiance. One of the older onlookers spoke up reproachfully. "Samson, ye hadn't hardly ought ter a-done that. He was jest a funnin' with ye."
I'm run down mighty low, Wid, and that's the truth. Mrs. Jensen can't stay along here always, though Lord knows what we would a-done if she hadn't come now. One thing's sure She ain't a-goin' to stay here lessen things straightens out. You know who I mean." Wid nodded, his face grave under its grizzled stubble. "Yes," said he. "Say," he added, suddenly. "You know that letter we got fer her?
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