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What possessed you to sell out and leave?" "I war prosperous," said Jordan, "doin' fust-class; war contented, and I don't believe I hed a enemy in the hull State. "I hed ther ranch, ther cattle, ther mustangs; didn't owe a dollar, and hed money in ther bank. I hed been doin' right pert, and the property war a-raisin' every day.
I sympathized with the old woman who exclaimed in desperation: "Great Jerusalem, ca'nt I stir, Without a-raisin' some feller's fur?" At last I suspected the itinerant butcher of doing double duty as a reporter, and found that he "was engaged by several editors to pick up bits of news for the press" as he went his daily rounds. "But this," I exclaimed, "is just what I don't want and can't allow.
'You fails to bow to me, aimin' to insult an' put it all over me in the presence of this yere multitood. Think of it, gents! goes on Texas, beginnin' to froth, an' a-raisin' of his voice to a whoop; 'think of it, an' me the war- chief of the Panhandle, with forty-two skelps on my bridle, to be insulted an' disdained by a feeble shorthorn like this. It shore makes me wonder be I alive!
"She'll think by the dust you're a-raisin' that there's some kind of a scrap goin' on and that she'd better head the other way." "Not much she wouldn't head the other way from a scrap. She would come on all the faster. I thought you knew Barbara better than that." He replaced his hat. "Why Abe, one time when she was "
We hadn't much money, for one thing, and then we, kind of liked loafin' around and raisin' a little garden truck, and oh, well, I might as well say so, we had a notion about placers in the dry wash back of the house you know how it is. So we stayed on, and kept a-raisin' these long-laigs for the fun of it. I used to like to watch 'em projectin' around, and I fed 'em twict a day about as usual.
Last year, when he came, they heard him "up and down the road a-hollerin' and a-raisin' Cain." And at last he had to come to the Hansons in despair, and bid Rufe, "Jump into your pants and shoes, and show me where this old mine is, anyway!" Seeing that Ronalds had laid out so much money in the spot, and that a beaten road led right up to the bottom of the dump, I thought this a remarkable example.
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