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So Parish Thornton took his place before the hearth and began an argument that he knew to be adversely prejudged. "Thar's grievances festerin' amongst ther men of yore crowd an' mine alike, but warfare won't ease 'em none," he said at the end; "I've got a grievance myself thet calls fer avengin' but hit hain't no Harper-Doane matter.
An' bless yo' dear heart, honey, this ain't nothin'. Ever'thing 'll come out all right. Why, I been used to killin' an' fightin' an' trouble all my life. Jason hain't done nothin' he didn't think was right I know that an' if hit was right I'm glad he done hit. I ain't so shore 'bout Steve, but the Lord's been good to Steve fer holdin' off his avengin' hand even this long.
"There is hull loads of folks uncle Nate says he can bring to vote for me, by the judicious use of wall, it hain't likely you will approve of it; but I say, stimulants are necessary in medicine, and any doctor will tell you so hard cider and beer and whiskey, and so 4th." I riz right up, and grasped holt of his arm, and says in stern, avengin' tones,
"Josiah Allen, will you go right against God's commands, and put the cup to your neighbor's lips, for your own gain? Do you expect, if you do, that you can escape Heaven's avengin' wrath?" "They hain't my neighbors: I never neighbored with 'em." Says I sternly, "If you commit this sin, you will be held accountable; and it seems to me as if you can never be forgiven."
"Well, as I was sayin', it was nice enough until the novelty wore off, an' there was nothin' to do that I hadn't done twenty times before. I thought some o' goin' to war with the wild niggers in the hills, an' avengin' my father-in-law's death, but I couldn't get my army more than three miles inland, so I had to give that up. Before three months had passed I wanted to abdicate the worst way.
Sez he, "I won't be calm!" sez he, "I haint the man, Samantha, to stand by and see one of your sect throwed at, as I have seen Sarah throwed at, without avengin' of it." And agin he shook them boys with a vehemence. The pennies and marbles in their pockets rattled and their bones seemed ready to part asunder. I wuz proud of that noble man, my pardner.
Ye aims ter hev everybody else fergive thar enemies an' lay down like lambs tergither atter ye gits teetotally done with yore own shootin' an avengin'." But Hump Doane seized the hickory staff that leaned against old Jim's chair and pounded with it on the table. "Silence!" he roared; "suffer ther feller ter git through!" "I don't aim ter bushwack ner layway nobody," went on Thornton, obdurately.
Pete was tugging at the rope, while his assistant was belabouring her with a stout stick. "Ye brutes!" Mrs. Stickles was shouting at the top of her voice. "What d'yez mean by thumpin' me poor Pansy in that way! But here comes the Lord's avengin' angel, praise His holy name! Stop 'em, Parson!" she shrieked, rushing towards the sleigh.
The second is that he was a bunkie of Tex Calder, an' a man Tex could trust for the avengin' of his death is good enough for me." There was a pause after this speech, and during the quiet the cowpunchers were passing from hand to hand the marshal's badge which Calder, as he died, had given to Dan. The bright small shield was a more convincing proof than a hundred arguments.
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