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"That is, unless somebody puts a little sand on the slide pretty all-fired soon. I say, Mr. Osgood, I'm a non-combatant, but I like to see fair play, why don't you write the Guardian people? or wire them? I think this is something your friend Wintermuth ought to know." Mr. Osgood reached toward the button that summoned his stenographer, and then drew back his hand. "No," he said slowly.
"I ain't never understood how things has turned out," he muttered to himself. "If Mollie wasn't foolish, I wouldn't let Bill have her. She is a pretty thing, and she looks like a lady. That's what makes it so all-fired queer." Mollie sank down on the bench that ran around the deck of the shanty boat. She dropped her head in her hands.
"We have two," said the little girl. "Pshaw now! you're joking." "No," rejoined Ben quietly. "We brought them down from the farm. Father and Steve needed them." "Do you own a farm, too?" Jeffrey asked in amaze. "Why, you must be all-fired rich!" "No, we're not so very rich," said Ben soberly. "Our house in First Street isn't nearly as big and as handsome as this.
"My breeches was all-fired stiff with the heat in the canyon, and my friend, seeing it, said, 'Your breeches are tight; allow me to place my hand on them. "He rubbed his fingers up and down once, and by beaver, they got as soft as when I traded them from the Pi-Utes on the Gila. "I now felt as brave as a buffalo in the spring.
"This state is getting too settled up for this kind of game to be pulled off so all-fired regularly. Cole Dalton must be blind in his off eye.... Oh, hell! It is none of my business. Any way ... not yet."
"Goodish seemed willing to come to tarms too; but like a prudent man, resolved to take a look at the old mare's mouth, and make some kind of a guess at her age; but the critter knowed how to keep her own secrets, and it was ever so long, afore he forced her jaws open, and when he did, he came plaguy near losin' of a finger, for his curiosity; and as he hopped and danced about with pain, he let fly such a string of oaths, and sacry-cussed the Elder and his mare, in such an all-fired passion, that Steve put both his hands up to his ears, and said, 'Oh, my dear friend, don't swear, don't swear; it's very wicked.
"You ride along this edge, so they won't scatter we ought to be grazin' 'em along, by rights; only you seem to be in such an all-fired rush " "You go on and tell that loco son-of-a-gun over there what he's up against," Andy urged. "Blank cartridges I sure do like that! If you only knew it, high power dum-dums would be a lot closer to our brand. Run along I am in a kinda hurry, this morning."
Hoped to goodness the jolly old beggar had not gone off the hooks meantime. Mr. Stein could not tell. There had been no news for more than a year; they were kicking up no end of an all-fired row amongst themselves, and the river was closed. Jolly awkward, this; but, no fear; he would manage to find a crack to get in. 'He impressed, almost frightened, me with his elated rattle.
I'm one of the hair-hung and breeze-shaken majority. I should most probably have punched his head." "Well, that's jest what I did. I says, says I, 'Jim, whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and jest at this time present, I'm the instrument. And when the dust got settled down, Jim he druv' home with that ther' piebald, allowin' he wasn't such an all-fired bad hawss after all.
But it was not my place to inquire into the cause that had led to my sudden promotion over the rank and file. I thought if I made too many inquiries it would be discovered that I was not such an all-fired great soldier after all.
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