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"We'll not make un!" Jamie protested. "The wind's gettin' too strong! We'll have to go ashore and make camp!" "The boat'll stand un," laughed David. "She's a sturdy craft in a breeze." "I'm afeared," said Jamie. "'A scout is brave," quoted Andy. "'Tisn't meant for a scout to be foolish," Jamie insisted. "I'm afeared of bein' foolish." "You was braggin' of havin' grit," Andy taunted.
I draw what is before me, and I can't go wrong. Now, you may call it crackin' and braggin', and all that sort of a thing, if you please, but I must say, I allot that I look, sit, walk, stand, eat, drink, smoke, think, and talk, aye, and brag too, like a Yankee clockmaker, don't you? Yes, there is a decided and manifest improvement in the appearance of this province.
"What good is that land when there ain't been a buildin' built in this town for fifteen years, and no call for any? As for the house, I'll bet ye a ten-cent cigar I can go over there and push it down and I ain't braggin' of my strength none, either." The Cap'n did not venture to defend his investment further.
Now, I come from where guns mean somethin'. An' when I tell you I can throw a gun slick an' fast, why I shore ain't braggin'. You needn't worry none about me, Miss Nell." Helen grasped that he had taken the signs of her shocked sensibility to mean she feared for his life. But what had sickened her was the mere idea of bloodshed in her behalf.
"They puff and blow like boasters braggin' that they extract from the ocean the means to make it help to subdue itself. It is a war in the elements, fire and water contendin' for victory. They are black, dingy, forbiddin' looking sea monsters.
So I have!" he replied, "an', by the blue blazes, I can say it without braggin'. I've seen a lot of water go by since I was runnin' 'roun' a bare-footed boy in Tennessee. I've ranged pretty far from east to west, an' all the way from Boston in the north to this old mission, an' that must be some thousands of miles. An' I've had some big times in New York, too."
I have to look big and talk big the whole blessed time, and I am tired of it. It ain't nateral to me; and, besides braggin' and repudiatin' at the same time, is most as bad as cantin' and swearin'. It kinder chokes me. I thought it all though, and said it all to myself. 'And, sais I, 'take your time, Sam; you can't do it, no how, you can fix-it. You must wait your time, like other folks.
But I seen Riggs ridin' up. Now, Turner's is where Riggs hangs out an' does his braggin'. He looked powerful deep an' thoughtful, dismounted slow without seein' the unusual number of hosses there, an' then he slouches into Turner's. No more 'n a minute after Las Vegas rode down there like a streak. An' just as quick he was off an' through thet door."
'Tend to cases!" broke in Hiram, impatiently. "And about that time the things began to act out round my place, and the Haskell boy told me that she was braggin' how she had me bewitched." "And you believed that kind of infernal tomrot?" inquired the showman, wrathfully. Somewhat to the Cap'n's astonishment, Hiram seemed to be taking only a sane and normal view of the thing.
"Is that what you come to say to me?" "Yep." "Well, now you're done with your braggin', get out, an' get out quick." But Maudlin didn't move. "I said to scoot," said Lafe presently, in suppressed tones. He was magnificent in his ferocity. "I heard you!" observed Maudlin, still sitting, though a little cowed in his former egotistical spirit.
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