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Updated: May 16, 2025
Sary sat on the bed and bounced up and down to test the springs and mattress before she pulled back the covers to examine the quality of filling in the ticking. "Laws! It hain't corn-husks, a-tall! It's soft as down!" Inborn curiosity compelled her to take a hairpin and rip open a bit of the seam. To her amazement she pulled out a tangle of long whitish hair. "Of all things!
Bob took a step or two toward the wounded man. "Don't you know me, Houck? We've come to look after you. This is Dud Hollister. You know him." "What if I did gun him?" the high-pitched voice maundered on. "Tried to steal my bronc, he did, an' I wouldn't stand for it a minute.... All right. Light yore fires. Burn me up, you hounds of Hades. I'm not askin' no favors. Not none a-tall."
"About my age. Very tall and thin. You could mark him by his height." "It takes different kinds of people to make the world. My brother ain't like him a-tall. Sam's short, an' thick as a buffalo. Weighs two twenty with no fat on him. What crowd do you belong to, youngster?" "The division on our right. We attacked the wood there." "Well, you're a bully boy. Give me your hand, if you are a Yank.
"If Shif'less Sol promised to be here he'll keep his word," he said, "and Silent Tom will come without making any promises." "You do talk won'erful well sometimes, Paul," said Long Jim, "an' I reckon you've put the facts jest right. I ain't goin' to be troubled in my mind a-tall, a-tall 'bout them fellers. They'll be here.
I don't have any clear guess what this is all about, but we can't take any chances." "Wid, he thinks them fellers ain't coming down here a-tall," said Sim confidentially. "He doesn't know anything more about it than I do or you do," said Doctor Barnes somewhat testily. "You go and tell Annie to shut that desk up, and see that she keeps it shut. I'm coming over to seal it up."
Doc Coffin grinned, as he spoke, like a grieving wolf. "They ain't no hurry, is they?" "I expect I'll be round Farewell a spell," said Racey. "Then they ain't no hurry," Doc Coffin told him smoothly. "None a-tall," contributed the short man. "That's the way to look at it," laughed Racey. "I shore don't care anything about bein' pushed. Have a drink on me."
"S-so you want to h-hitch up to double trouble, do you?" he asked. "We want to get married," Bob said. "S-same thing," the fat man wheezed, grinning. "C-come right in an' I'll tie you tighter 'n a d-drum." "I've only got six dollars," the bridegroom explained. "No matter a-tall. My f-fee is jus' six d-dollars," the justice announced promptly. Bob hesitated. June nudged him and whispered.
Couldn't manage to do me a favor at eight?" "What is the favor, Mr. Baines?" "'Tain't much. Sca'cely anythin' a-tall. I calc'late to be a-settin' in Grandma Penny's parlor at eight sharp. I won't keep you waitin' more 'n a second unless somebody happens to be with me a-talkin' my arm off. If they hain't nobody with me, why, you walk right in.
But first I gotta give Nebraska's friends a chance to draw cards. A chance, y' understand." "You'll be killed," she told him, white-lipped. "Why, no," said he. "Not never a-tall. Drawing cards is one thing and playing the hand out is a cat with another kind of tail. I got hopes they won't get too rough with me." "Well, of all the stubborn damn fools I ever saw " began the girl, angrily.
We all just didn't like the way the stranger went at it, so I'm going to Farewell after the sheriff." "Yo're holdin' the stranger then, I take it?" put in Mr. Saltoun. "Well, no, not exactly," replied Thompson. "He got away, that stranger did." "And didn't none of you make any try at stopping him a-tall?" demanded Racey. "Plenty," Thompson replied with a stony face.
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