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Blackie and me know that you're a good man, the kind that'll take a chance, and keep his word. Well, we're the same. There are only a few of us in this end of the ship that have any backbone to speak of, and we ought to stick together. There's pay-dirt in this ship if we only play the game right." "What do you mean?" I wanted to know. But Boston concluded he had said almost enough for once.
The only answer that came was a low growl, which frightened Fatty and Blackie more than ever. And then, just as they both began to howl at the top of their voices Fatty's tail was suddenly freed. He was pulling on it so hard that he fell all in a heap on the floor of the barber-shop. And that surprised him. But he was still more surprised when he heard his mother say
Then she tried to speak some soothing words of comfort, but little Jean wailed out with a fresh burst of sorrow: "Oh, Miss Cam'ell, why didn't God keep him from Blackie, if he loves him as ye say?
"You said it!" commented Nort. "Well, there's one thing we don't have to worry about, and that is not finding any water running into the reservoir," added Dick, as he slipped in through the gate and caught one of his ponies not Blackie, who was tired out from the round-up. Each cow puncher, including the boy ranchers, had several animals in his "string."
This long, narrow, dingy room, with its bare floor and its iron-legged tables whose bare marble tops were yellow with age and use! I said nothing as we seated ourselves. Blackie was watching me out of the tail of his eye. My glance wandered about the shabby, smoke-filled room, and slowly and surely the charm of that fusty, dingy little cafe came upon me. A huge stove glowed red in one corner.
H.A.L. FISHER. The Value of Small States. Oxford Pamphlets. 2d. E. LEVETT. Europe since Napoleon. 1913. Blackie. 3s. 6d. A useful little text-book. The Cambridge Modern History. Vols. ix., x., xi., xii. 16s. net per vol. Indispensable for knowledge of the facts of the period. R. NISBET BAIN. Slavonic Europe, 1447-1796. 1908. 5s. 6d. net.
I'm a regular little human garage when it comes to patchin' up those aggravatin' screws that need oilin'. And, say, don't let Norberg bully you. My name's Blackie. I'm goin' t' like you. Come on over t' my sanctum once in a while and I'll show you my scrapbook and let you play with the office revolver." And so it happened that I had not been in Milwaukee a month before Blackie and I were friends.
I buried my head in the papers again. Blackie went on smoking. There was no sound in the little room except the purr-purring of Blackie's pipe. Then: "I done a favor for Wheeling once," mused he. I glanced up, quickly. "Oh, Blackie, do you think " "No, I don't. But then again, you can't never tell. That was four or five years ago, and the mem'ry of past favors grows dim fast.
We did a good march of one and a half miles that night before we halted for "lunch" at 1 a.m., and then on for another mile, when at 5 a.m. we camped by a little sloping berg. Blackie, one of Wild's dogs, fell lame and could neither pull nor keep up with the party even when relieved of his harness, so had to be shot. Nine p.m. that night, the 27th, saw us on the march again.
June was going out in a wave of torrid heat such as August might have boasted. The day had seemed endless and intolerably close. I was feeling very limp and languid. Perhaps, thought I, it was the heat which had wilted Blackie's debonair spirits. "It has been a long time since we've had a talk-talk, Blackie. I've missed you. Also you look just a wee bit green around the edges.
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