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I guess he thinks he's got me buffaloed and on the run." "Which one of them sent you a letter?" "Jedlick, dern him. I'm goin' down there from now on every chance I get and set up to that girl like a Dutch uncle." "What do you suppose Jedlick intends to do to you?" "I don't care what he aims to do.
"'Where is that fellow Hinkey? And when I pointed Hinkey out to him, he said: "'Great guns, Harvard complaining about that little shrimp, I'm ashamed of Harvard. "Hinkey was a wonderful leader. Every man that ever played under him worshipped him. He had his team so buffaloed that they obeyed every order, down to the most minute detail.
"He's right, Larsen, and you're wrong," Buck Mason said. "She had us buffaloed, and he pulled us clear. Steady, boys. They ain't no harm done to Sally!" "Oh, Buck, is that the sort of a friend of mine you are?" "I'm sorry, Sally." Sinclair gave this argument only a small part of his attention.
Bagstock, and the unregrettin' widow of the late Dick McCloud, who up to a year ago was the only survivin' relative of his dear aunt. "And he wasn't much good at that, if I do say it," announces Tessie, snappin' her black eyes. "I don't deny he had me buffaloed for a while there, throwin' the bull about his rich aunt that was goin' to leave him a fortune. Huh!
Another, with "more in sight" than the bearded gambler, turned over his cards in disgust, and with a chuckle of joy, the first speaker dragged in the pot and added the chips to his mounting stacks. He seemed to have the others buffaloed. The card players had been absorbed in their game until now. But as the new deal was begun, the bearded gambler saw the Texan's eyes upon him.
Douglass's vis-a-vis had returned to his seat, and even the tenderfoot was laughing in pure relief. Matlock's undoing was so complete that he did not even resent Blount's deep-toned "Buffaloed, by God!" He groped unseeingly for the door, followed by the scowling trio whose faces were flushed with the awful shame of his cowardice.
"After all," he meditated, "she got that rabbit unexpectedly when she sure needed it worst and she won out by staying with the game. Maybe my turn will come, too, if I don't get buffaloed and stampede. Was it Seneca or Lucretius no, Havard who said that perseverance is a virtue 'that plucks success Even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.
Mebbe the doc's queered me. He's pussy-footin' about with 'em a good deal. But I'll talk with you about that later. It's me an' you ag'in' the rest of 'em, seems to me, Rainey. The doc's aimin' to be the Big Boss aboard this schooner. He's got the skipper buffaloed. But not me, not by a jugful." He slammed his big fist against the side of the bunk so viciously that it seemed to jar the cabin.
He hardly opens his mouth on the way up to the hotel, but trails along silent, his eyes fixed starey, like he was thinkin' deep. "Well," says I, after a bell-hop had shown us into one of the Tillington's air-shaft rooms and gone for ten cents' worth of ice water, "it looks like you had the Big Boss almost buffaloed with that pirate tale of yours." Rupert don't enthuse much at that.
"We shall be eating one every week or so." "Then don't let me know when the executions take place," says I. "As for me, I shouldn't feel like tellin' Joe to kill one without an order from the High Sheriff of the county." And say, if I'm ever buffaloed into buyin' any more live turkeys, I'm going to demand a written guarantee that they're Prohibitionists.
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