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"But I jest wanted to hear you say so, Jim, fer you and me has had an eddication which lots of cusses into camp 'ain't never got. Not that it's anything agin 'em, but you know how it is. I'll bet the little shaver will like them better'n anything else he'll git." "Oh, he'll like 'em in a different way," agreed the miner. "No doubt about that."
But that's more'n some other people in Marx's household does." "Yes?" "Yes, sir. When a gentleman tries to be friendly, I meets him half-way. But that fellow," and he shook a remonstrating finger at the door of the lodging-house, "thinks himself better'n other people. And mind you," with a leer, "maybe he's not as good." "Who do you mean the Dago?" asked the machinist. "No; I mean Crawford.
Voices came from an adjoining room; he could hear Deacon Whittle's nasal tones upraised in fervid assertion. "Yes, ma'am!" he was saying, "this house is a little out of repair, you can see that fer yourself; but it's well built; couldn't be better. A few hundred dollars expended here an' there'll make it as good as new; in fact, I'll say better'n new!
"But, Matt," protested the girl; "how can you? You can't get by them. How're you goin' to get there in time?" "Down the mountain; short cut;" he answered as he jerked the heavy saddle from his horse and threw it under some nearby bushes. "But they'll kill you. You can't never face that whole crowd alone." "I can do it better'n Dad, and him not a lookin' for them."
Laws bless me, I just took one glimpse, General, and lit out'n the county in three jumps exactly. "But what grinds me is that that Morgan hangs on there and won't move off'n that ranch says it's his'n and he's going to keep it likes it better'n he did when it was higher up the hill. Mad!
"I'm mighty glad to see you again," Jeff admitted. "Ah, water! That's a sight better'n whisky." He drank thirstily, for the sun was high in the heavens, and the road as hot as an oven. "I reckoned you'd come back," Jeff continued. "Why?" "To earn that dollar." He eyed the lad's somewhat ragged overalls. "Say what do they call ye to home?" "Bud." "Bud, eh? Short for brother. Folks got a fam'ly."
However, his own folks wouldn't know him now, would they? so I cal'late I'm just gettin' foolish in my old age. Said his name's Murphy, them ha'f-breeds did, didn't they? I know better'n that." "How do you know?" asked Ellery, idly listening. "'Cause when he's floppin' round on the bed, out of his head, he sings out all kinds of stuff.
Sim, by means of a table knife, opened the envelope. "You read it, Wid," said he. "You can read better'n I can." And so Wid accepted Sim's conventional fiction, knowing he could neither read nor write. "Dear Mary," said Anne's letter, "I got to write to you. I wisht you hadn't went away when you did and how you did, for, Mary, I feel so much alone.
A real he man likes camping in the wilds better'n he likes anything on earth. Seaton thought maybe somewhere in that pindling carcass of yours there was the making of a he man and that you'd like the experience. I promised him I'd try you out and I'm trying you, hang you for an ungrateful, cowardly cub." Nucky turned on his heel and began to pick up drift wood.
But I have heard say they are so fine, people ain't against deserting their children just to get 'em in such places knowin' they'll be educated better'n they can do themselves." Mary's pale eyes blazed. "Do you mean, Norma Bonkowski," she demanded angrily, "that you'd rather she should go?" Miss Bonkowski shrugged her shoulders somewhat haughtily. "How you do talk, Mary!
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