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Updated: May 8, 2025
"'However, says Enright, 'I s'pose his livin' so long arises mainly from stayin' East, where they don't make no p'int on bein' p'lite, an' runs things looser. "'Whatever's the matter of chasin' this insultin' tenderfoot 'round a lot, asks Texas Thompson, 'an' havin' amoosement with him? Thar ain't nothin' doin', an' we oughter not begretch a half-day's work, puttin' knowledge into this party.
I don't begretch the money, and I think the young man was right, and so was the judge, and I'll never do it again. The commissioner said that I looked like a woman of sense. I always did have sense before. I think it must be these mountains, or the moon, or something. I never felt that way before." It was this young man who walked down to Maw's camp to take her number.
Sez he, "Ury and I could do it some rainy day, and how you would treasure it!" sez he. Sez he, "I could make your hair out of white silk grass, and your face out of red pop-corn mostly." Sez he, "Of course, to make you life size it would take a big crop of corn. I should judge," sez he, "that it would take about two bushels to make your waist ribbon; but I wouldn't begretch it."
"Mebby it's four days after when this yere Sal hops outen the stage, an' for the next week thar ain't no washin' done whatever, while Benson Annie an' Sal works the wire aige offen their visit. "`A gent as would begretch two pore, hard-workin' girls a lay-off of a week, says Enright, 'ain't clean strain, an' I don't want to know sech a hoss-thief nohow'; an' we-alls feels likewise.
You wouldn't begretch me my dreams, would you? They're about all I've got. If it warn't fur the things I dream I wouldn't have nothin'." The wistfulness in the sensitive face would instantly transform Celestina's irritation into sympathy and cause her to respond: "Nonsense, Willie! What are you talkin' about? Ain't you got more friends than anybody in this town?
If there's some one come along that can put the wickin' to him in good shape, I swow if this town don't owe him a vote of thanks." "There's a movement on already to ask Cap'n Sproul to take the office of first s'lec'man at the March meetin'," said one of the loafers. "I sha'n't begretch him one mite of his popularity," vowed the storekeeper.
"I've been waitin' a turrible time fer this day," said the elder. "I've suffered the plagues of prospectin' from the Mexicos to the Circle, an' yet I don't begretch it none, now that I've struck pay." While they spoke, two miners struggled with a bowlder they had unearthed, and having scraped and washed it carefully, staggered back to place it on the cleaned bed-rock behind.
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