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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Go away and leave you here alone, perhaps to die? And then have to face my parents and Banty and The Eena, and and England again and tell what I've done? Not I!" cried the boy, indignantly. "Look at this shack, the state it's in; look at you. How did you come to be here alone?" "I had a pardner, but he left me, just skinned out, when he suspected what I had," said the man, hopelessly.
"Well, the discoverers sent no word back, at any rate," said young Mr. Banty, "so there's one view I think ought to be considered; isn't it possible that Jesus was mistaken?" Mr. Primm turn pale and Deacon Bates shivered violently, while a low hum and a general shaking of heads showed the unpopularity of young Mr. Banty's idea.
The trousers were long. "I'm glad Eena didn't come," moaned Banty. "If he'd seen this, he would have steered clear of the ranch for weeks." Then, bracing himself like a man, he went forward with outstretched hand to greet his unwelcome relative.
"It is bad," he assented, "but it might be doctored. Haven't you got a middle name?" "It's worse," grinned the victim. "It's St. Ives. I tried it on the second term, and the crowd called me 'Ivy, and one smartie sent me a piece of blue ribbon to tie my yellow curls with he wrote that in an insulting note." "What'd you do?" gasped Banty.
He was a little, pussy, red-faced, pop-eyed man, pompous as a banty rooster, with black whiskers and a mustache like a cat. He had a voice on him like barrels rolling in a brewery vault. It would surprise you quite a little to hear that number ten voice come a-roarin' out of that number two man.
"Lemme see the bottle." "I chucked it out o' the winder," affirmed Samuel without winking, and Abe hastened to draw Angy's attention back to himself. "See, Mother, I kin stand as good as anybody; hain't got no fever; I kin walk alone. Yew seen me dancin' jest naow, tew. An' ef I had that pesky leetle banty rooster of a doctor here, I'd kick him all the way deown-stairs.
Think of aunt and the people at the ranch. You can't do any good, and I'll go clean crazy if you expose yourself to this. Oh, Banty, get out of this, get out of this, or, I tell you, honest, I'll lick you if you don't."
"Licked him in full view of the whole school, and he was a senior; trimmed him till he couldn't see," was the smiling reply. "Good boy!" almost shouted Banty. "You're the stuff for out West. I'm glad you came." "I'm glad, too," answered his cousin, "but I'll be 'gladder' if you will tell me where I can get some togs like yours.
But the next day when Banty drove down to Kamloops to meet the train, and his cousin stepped from the sleeper on to the station platform, things looked worse than threatened misery.
It is enough to make a stun woman, or a wooden female, mad, to see how the nation always depicters wimmen in statutes, and pictures, and things, as if they wuz a-holdin' the hull world in the palm of their hand, when they hain't, in reality, willin' to gin 'em the right that a banty hen has to take care of their own young ones, and protect 'em from the hoverin' hawks of intemperance and every evil.
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