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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Kind o' busy, Zip?" he greeted the little man pleasantly. Scipio raised a pair of shadowed eyes from the inside of the well-scoured fry-pan he was wiping. "I'm mostly through fixin' these chores for awhiles," he replied quietly. Then he nodded in the direction of the children's voices. "Guess I'm goin' to take the kiddies down to the creek to clean 'em. They need cleanin' a heap."
I wont to do this neighbourly loike, and let them think thee's gotten awa' o' theeself, but if he cooms oot o' thot parlour awhiles theer't clearing off, he mun' have mercy on his oun boans, for I wean't. If he foinds it oot, soon efther, I'll put 'un on a wrong scent, I warrant 'ee. But if thee keep'st a good hart, thee'lt be at whoam afore they know thee'st gotten off. Coom!
I'll tell you more, it's only because this country's so mighty wide and big, crooks have got any chance of dodging the penitentiary at all. I tell you, you folks ain't got an eye open at all, if you can't see how things are. If I was handing advice, I'd say to crooks, quit your ways an' run straight awhiles, if you don't fancy a striped suit.
'Bain't for me to denai, said John, looking at me very honestly, 'but what a maight tull a lai, now and awhiles, zame as other men doth, and most of arl them as spaks again it; but this here be no lai, Maister Jan. I wush to God it wor, boy: a maight slape this naight the better. 'I believe you speak the truth, John; and I ask your pardon. Now not a word to any one, about this strange affair.
An' ther' was a feller come along awhiles back all the way from England to find her. He was a swell law feller; he'd hit her trail, an' when he comes along he said as she owned 'states in your country, a whole heap. Guess she's to be treated like a queen. Dollars? Gee! She ken buy most everything. I 'lows they ken do it slick in your country." Seth paused to light his pipe.
I never meant her to marry yet awhiles, but reckon I can't make her happy at home I've tried and I can't so you may as well try." "It ud be difficult to make Ellen happy she's a queer liddle dentical thing." "I know, but marriage is a wonderful soberer-down. She'll be happy once she gets a man and a house of her own." "I'm not so sure. Anyways I'm not the man for her.
O'Rourke, who had seated himself gravely on the scraper, and was weeping. "Hasn't the man any friends?" "Too many of 'em, mum, an' it's along wid dhrinkin' toasts wid 'em that Larry got throwed. The punch that spalpeen has dhrunk this day would amaze ye. He give us the slip awhiles ago, bad 'cess to him, an' come up here.
"Guess your bluff wa'n't wuth a cent, Victor Gagnon. I see'd this comin' the minit you pass'd me the drink. I 'lows ye ken mostly tell a skunk by the stink. I rec'nized you awhiles back. Guess you ain't lightin' out o' here this night. Come right along." The trader had no choice. Jean had him foul, gripping him with a clutch that was vise-like.
Once more those swift, relentless eyes focused and compelled the others. "Zip," he said in a tone that was strangely thrilling, "maybe I didn't get all you felt all you got in that tow-head of yours. That bein' so, guess I owe you amends. But I'm goin' to ast you to sure fergit that gal's letter fer awhiles.
"I can't say the same of you, Birdie," he declared unsmilingly. "You're bloomin' as as a kebbige." "Kebbige?" sniffed the girl. "Kebbige, sure," nodded the man of married experience. "Guess mebbe it ain't a bokay fer smell. But fer taste with corned beef? Gee!" Birdie took no umbrage. "You got to it after awhiles," she remarked slyly.
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