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"I wasn't allowin' to have 'em jerk you out of your home town before you'd had a chance to pick a lawyer and talk to your friends; no sir-ee, I wasn't." "I guess I haven't any friends any more," I was still bitter enough to say. And then: "Tell me, if you can, Uncle John, just what the charge against me is."
She made a dinner of spring chicken, mashed potatoes, hot biscuits, jelly, and apple pie. A rider for the Flying V Y dropped in after they had eaten and bridled like a turkey cock at sight of Clanton. "Don't you let him git away from you, Jack," he warned the officer. "We're allowin' to have a holiday on the sixth up at our place so as to go to the show.
'Crib, he said carelessly; and then, after examining the face of the excavation: 'S'pose we ain't likely to cut the lode this shift, Dick? Dick shook his head thoughtfully. 'No, he said. 'Allowin' for the underlay, we should strike her about fifteen feet in. The other boys had now joined their mates.
"What you got there in yore hand?" demanded Houck. The revolver came to light. Houck stuck his hands in his trouser pockets, straddled out his feet, and laughed derisively. "Allowin' for to kill me, eh?" "No, sir." The voice was a dry whisper. "I'd like to talk this over reasonable, Mr. Houck, an' fix it up so's bygones would be bygones. I ain't lookin' for trouble." "I sure believe that."
Not waitin' to learn its name, even, I'm directed to state as how the camp backs your play an' makes good. "'I'm allowin' to go to the States, says the girl, 'an' I'm obleeged to you. "'We was hopin', says Enright, 'as you'd stay yere. We-alls sorter figgers you'd teach us a school.
And the end of the article wuz so sort of tragick and skairful that Josiah wept when he read it. He pictured it out in such strong colors, the danger there wuz of puttin' wimmen, or allowin' her to put herself in such a high and percipitous place, such a skairful and dangerous posture as settin' up on a Conference.
They was an awful nice set of boys, the Royal Soverign Princes, but when you divide thirty dollars and fifty cents amongst fifteen men for a month's wages, the washer-lady can't expect city prices. "Pete had gained a holt on this lady's affections by falling into the flume and allowin' himself to be piped over the waste-gate.
I don't reckon none of 'em'll ever come back soon, neither. "But it's the towerist woman makes the trouble from start to finish. It's a letter from her which she writes back to Dave, allowin' she'll thank him some more as her preserver, that brings the news to Jennie. Tucson Jennie gets this missive, an' ups an' rifles an' reads it to herse'f a whole lot.
I've always suspected it, and now I know. "Your pa gets this book, and reads all this stuff that's been written about 'Fanny, and he don't see no reason why he shouldn't duplicate it and maybe get it printed. I knew he set great store by books, but it comes to me as a shock that he was allowin' to write 'em. Some of the time he sees he's crazy himself.
"It was thrue, thin, William Connor?" repeated Coolin. "As thrue as that yander tripod pump kills wan man out uv ivery fifty. As thrue as that y'r corn-beef from y'r commysariat tins gives William Connor thirst, Coolin." "She was drownded, Connor?" asked Coolin in a whisper. "As I dramed it, an' allowin' fer difference uv time, at the very hour, Coolin.
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