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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Some o' these mosquito-net skirts'll get afire next then there'll be hell a-popping!" Close at hand there was a louder report, as of a giant cracker, and at that Barbara sagged against me. I whirled and put an arm about her. Bill grabbed her from me, and lifted her above the pressure of the crowd. I charged ahead, shouting, "Gangway! Let us through!"
If you've got friends brothers anybody here that you think a lot of Miss Allen, I advise you to send 'em outa the country, before trouble breaks loose; because when she starts she'll start a-popping. I know I can't answer for my self, what I'm liable to do if they bother me; and I'm about the mildest one in the bunch.
"I've tied my rope, Lite," Jean drawled, with a little laugh at what might happen. Lite turned his face toward her. "You better not," he warned. "Things are liable to start a-popping when that engine wakes up." "Well, then I'll want both hands for Pard. I've taken a couple of half-hitches, anyway." "You folks want to be ready at the wheels," Lite directed, waiving the argument.
There was no hesitation now. Every man pushed forward to have a hand in it. "Good enough," nodded Yeager. "We'll want rifles, boys. Looks to me like hell might be a-popping before mo'ning grows very ancient. We'll set out from Turkey Creek Crossroads two hours from now. Any man not on hand then will get left behind. "And remember this is a man hunt! No talking, boys.
And, what's more, don't you crowd me too hard me and the rest of the boys or there'll be hell a-popping right here. Now, you mind what I'm telling you." He spoke deliberately, evenly, without raising his voice. His manner, even more than his words, expressed fixed determination. Farwell lifted his eyebrows, and puckered his lips in a silent whistle.
It's a jail-break I'm planning, son. There may be guns a-popping before we get back to God's country if we ever do. Add to that, trouble and then some, for there's a revolution scheduled for old Chihuahua just now, as your uncle happens to know from reliable information." "Two can always work better than one.
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