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Updated: June 12, 2025
They've bin runnin' guard, as usual, and comin' back full o' apple-jack and bad language and desire to give the camp a heavy coat o' red paint. Old McBiddle has tried to convince 'em that he was still runnin' the rijimint, and his idees wuz better 'n theirs, and there they are. There's Jim Monaghan handlin' that pick as if he was in the last stages o' consumption.
Now and then, stately ranks of turkeys charged in line of battle upon the muddy buggy, and the team, being used to it, stood their ground, and snorted contemptuously. The country people were either saturnine with an odd shyness, which had something almost hostile in it, or they were effusively hospitable, forcing apple-jack upon the two doctors.
They couldn’t live in a house same as humans, not if yu filled their gyarden with nuggets an’ their well with apple-jack." Miss Carmichael looked attentive but said nothing. In truth, she was more afraid of Hank, his obvious gallantry, and his grewsome tales of boots with legs in them than she was of the unknown terrors of Lost Trail.
But with Abe Bolton drinking tended to develop moroseness into savagery. "Ah, comfort me with apple-jack, and stay me with flagons of it," said Kent Edwards, setting down the jug with the circumspection of a man not yet too drunk to suspect that he is losing exact control of his legs and arms. "That gets better the deeper down you go.
I'd been up to town, to take a mess o' clams at Giberson's, with maybe a sprinklin' of his apple-jack, nothing else, and I was on my way home, to Skillman's tavern at the dépôt, you know, and I'd jest stopped a piece, and was a-standing there, looking at the moon in the water, when he tipped me over.
"Is every thing out of the locker, Dab?" inquired Ham. "All but the jug. I say, did you know it was nearly half full? Would it do any hurt to leave it here?" "The jug? No, not if you just pour out the rest of the apple-jack over the side." "Make the fish drunk." "Well, it sha'n't do that for anybody else, if I can help it."
Many heirlooms are owned by Jerseymen hereabout that were received from Kidd's sailors in exchange for apple-jack and provisions, and two sailor-looking men are alleged to have taken a strong-box out of Money Hill some years ago, from which they abstracted two bags of gold.
McGillicuddy's good all the way through, from skin to bone, and as brave as they make 'em. He'll be tickleder than a boy with a new pair o' red-topped boots. He'll invite me to take a drink with him, but he won't have nothin' so good as this old apple-jack. I guess I'll give the rest to him, too, for his friends at headquarters. They don't often smack their lips over stuff like that.
Georgie K., still with a white, shocked, inquiring face, extended his hand and took the roll of bills which the doctor gave him. "Come in and take something," said he, and Doctor Gordon and James accepted. They went again into the state parlor on whose shelf were the wax-flowers and the stuffed canary, and they partook of apple-jack. Then Doctor Gordon and James took leave.
Many heirlooms are owned by Jerseymen hereabout that were received from Kidd's sailors in exchange for apple-jack and provisions, and two sailor-looking men are alleged to have taken a strong-box out of Money Hill some years ago, from which they abstracted two bags of gold.
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