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I had some drinks, an' treated a couple of the boys, an' then there was carfare. If I'd a-won, I'd a-got a hundred. That's what I fought for. It'd a-put us on Easy street for a while. You take it an' keep it. It's better 'n nothin'."

Lucky for him I didn't, or mebbe I'd a-put his light for good and all. Friend, I reckon we'll suppress these messages. Military necessity, you understand." And with that he lightly tore up the yellow sheets and tossed them away. "The conductor will wire when he reaches Apache," the operator suggested, not very boldly. The outlaw rolled a cigarette deftly and borrowed a match. "He most surely will.

I'se goin' a-put your great eye out!" But when the eye half-looked at her, off she would scud, and all I could see was a mass of flying yellow hair, a whisking of snowy skirts, and my little nymph was gone. A dozen times a day she would appear, and as long as I remained under water, she would hover near.

"Now supposin', friends, as I'd a-fashioned the wondrous words o' the ditty we've just polished off; an' supposin' a friend o' mine, same as Uncle Issy might he, had a-dropped in, in passin', an' heard me read the same. 'Hullo! he'd 'a said, 'You've a-put the same words twice over. 'How's that? 'How's that? 'Well, says Uncle Issy, ''tis spoke so, anyways' "

They did not go into much detail about their adventures while spying on the villages, rather looking now to the future. "I told you, Paul, we ought to a-put a knife in that Braxton Wyatt when we had the chance," growled Shif'less Sol. "I couldn't do it, Sol," replied Paul.

"Well, now," he began, after opening his mouth twice and shutting it without sound, "folks may say what they like o' your wits, Uncle, an' talk o' your looks bein' against 'ee, as they do; but you've a-put a twister, this time, an' no mistake." "I reckoned it a banger," said the old man, complacently. "Iss. But I had my reasons all the same." "To be sure you had.

It was a most elegant thing when he brought it; but I think it kind o' led Mis' Badger on to extravagant ways, for gettin' new trimmin' spring and fall so uses up money as fast as new bonnets; but Mis' Badger's got the money, and she's got a right to use it if she pleases; but if I'd a-had new trimmin's spring and fall, I shouldn't a-put away what I have in the bank."

Along she comes, marches up to the board the crowd making way for her and reads down the list. "H'm," says she, and wheeling to the rightabout, marches straight across to the open window of the "George." "Give you good morning, gentlemen," says she, dropping a curtsey. "I see you've a-put me on the Voters' List; and, with your leave, I'd like a look at your candidates."