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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Come on, Laura! where are you?" demanded Bobby. "Are you going to let us mere 'amachoors' beat you? Give us a limerick." Mother Wit was expected to keep up with the other wits, that was sure. So she obliged with: "'A smart young fisher named Fischer, Fished for fish from the edge of a fissure. A fish, with a grin, Pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.
Kedzie would once have ridiculed them as "amachoors"; now she wished that she, too, were only an "amaturr" instead of a reformed professional. If some of the ladies snubbed her she found others that cultivated her; a few of the humbler women even toadied to her position; a few of the men snuggled up to her picturesque beauty. She snubbed them with vigor.
Captain Fond, emerging from the cell, gave orders to supply him with a loaf of bread and a pitcher of water. Down in Falmouth the bells were ringing for church. In the Castle a Sabbath stillness reigned. Sergeant Topase, napping and reading his Bible by turns before the gatehouse fire, remarked to his wife that on the whole these silly amachoors were giving less trouble than he had expected.
It's my strike and I don't want no amachoors butting in. I got options on the whole creek she's eclipsed for fair 'cause I don't like neighbors. You shut your trap till spring and sit tight, then we'll roll our packs, stomp on the fire, and call the dog. Old Home Week for us." "But, Billy, we can't work out that claim in one winter," protested the physician. "How d'you know we can't?
This is what she's been doin' ever since yesterday. Buck, it's up to you to make good. There she is!" "All right," said Buck, "it's about time for you amachoors to exit an' leave the stage clear for the big star. Now jest step back an' take notes on the way I do it. In fifteen minutes by the clock she'll be eatin' out of my hand." Silent, expectant but baffled, retired a little.
Not havin' a gun will be your best recommend, generally speakin'. Stick to the bugs, Billy; stick to the bugs." "Well, you ought to know." "I got seven puckers in my hide to prove what I say. Six of 'em were put there by plumb amachoors in the gun line; fellas I never took pains to draw on quick, never suspectin' nothin'. The other, number seven, was put there by a gent that meant business.
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