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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I say, you know," says Ollie, "awfully good of you to do this." "I'm like that all the time," says I, pocketin' my fifty commission. "I'll rent the Agnes out for you any old day, so long as I don't have to go battin' around on her myself." Course, if it was just a case of sailin' down to Coney and back, or maybe runnin' up the Hudson as far as Yonkers, I'd take a chance.
And how would we qualify? How would you? Come, what's your battin' average, Steele, in the worthy league?" J. Bayard squirms a little at that, and then hunches his shoulders. "Oh, if you're going to put it that way," says he, "go ahead. But when she starts to be a Baroness, I'd like to see her." "You'll be there to hand her the tickets," says I. "You'll get her ready. That's part of your job."
Burlingame goes in for lookin' like a picture in a frame gold seals hangin' beyant his vestpocket, broad silk cord to his eye-glass, loose flowin' tie, and long hair-makes him look pretentuous and showy. But your 'Mr. Kerry, sir, he don't have any tricks to make him look like a doge from Veenis and all the eyes of the females battin' where'er he goes.
The darned little cuss set there a minute thinking, then slid off his horse, stripped him of riding gear, flung saddle, blanket and bridle over the bars into the corral. Before we knowed what he was aiming to do he climbed up and dropped down inside, on foot, with just his rope, and faced that outlaw battin' around trying to get outside "
Puss asked no questions. She went and stood by Teague, and toyed gently with one of Sis's curls. "Sis don't take airter none er the Pringles," she said after a while, by way of explanation. "They hain't never bin a day when I couldn't look at Teague 'thout battin' my eyes, an' ma use to say she 'uz thes that away 'bout pap.
"'You got a hundred thousand? I asks it was more than I needed, but I thought I'd make it big enough to scare him. "'More than that, he answers, without battin' an eye. 'But what's the matter with the Wolverine? "'The Wolverine? I busted out. 'Young man, if I was to tell you what I think of the Wolverine here on the street, I'd be arrested before I'd got good an' started.
"Why, Saskatoun," says she, without battin' an eyelash. "Oh, all right, if you don't want to tell," says I. "But I have told you," says she. "Saskatoun." "Is it a new hair tonic, or what?" says I. "It's a city," says she. "One of the largest in British Columbia." "Think of that!" says I. "They don't care how they mess up the map these days, do they? And your folks live there?"
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