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"Well, I ain't wantin' ter be buttin' in none," said Sol, in a crestfallen way. "Yer ain't butted in none, Sol. I'm obliged ter yer fer givin' me ther tip erbout ther old sharp. When he fust braced me I sized him up fer a sharp, an' when he told me he was a hoss trader from Missouri I had a straight line on him."
"Spike," he added in an undertone, "to the woods. Chase yourself. It's not up to you to do stunts on this beat. Fade away." "Sure," said the abashed Spike, restored to a sense of his position. "Dat's right. I've got wheels in me coco, that's what I've got, comin' buttin' in here. Sorry, Mr. Chames. Sorry, gents. Me for the tall grass." He trotted away.
"Excuthe me," he said, and his propitiatory smile was expansive and dazzling, "excuthe me buttin' in like thith. It theemth rude, I know it doth theem rude; but the fact of the matter ith I'm a tailor thath's my pithneth, a tailor. When I thay a tailor, I really mean a breecheth-maker tha'th what I mean, a breecheth-maker. Now thethe timeth ith very hard timeth for breecheth-makerth."...
"The Metropolitan Opera House should have been secured." "Ladies," interposed Handy, "excuse me for buttin' in, but business is business, and that's the humor of it. Let me tell you, in all frankness, that if you can fill the house, take my word for it, as a man of some experience, you will have reason to congratulate yourselves on a great accomplishment.
"Excuse me for buttin' in, and me a stranger. But isn't it yore business when she murders American women and children?" The pasty-faced man looked at him with thinly disguised contempt. "You wouldn't understand if I explained." "Mebbeso I wouldn't, but you take a whirl at it and I'll listen high, wide, and handsome." The man in velveteens unexpectedly found himself doing as he was told.
She laughed again and Lulie and Galusha joined her. They were still laughing when the dining room door opened. Mr. Bloomer's substantial if not elegant form appeared. "Ain't buttin' in, be I?" inquired Zach. "I knew you was over here, Lulie, so I stopped to tell you the news. It's all settled." "Settled?" Lulie and Martha repeated the word together. Zach nodded, portentously.
"He's done everything but say mass over me," says I. "Piddie is a good deal of an " then he pulls up. "Where the deuce did he find you?" "It wasn't him found me," says I; "it was a case of me findin' him; but if it hadn't been for your old man's buttin' in, that's all the good it would have done me." "Ah!" says he. "That explains the mystery. By the way, son, what do they call you?"
"Not nigh Zip's?" he suggested. The half-grin in Bill's eyes was becoming more savage. "Yep an' I bought it." His information increased the interest with a bound. Every man there knew, or believed, that Zip's claim was the only one on the Creek. "I didn't know there was any other but Zip's," said Joe Brand, his interest outrunning his discretion. "Ah, you buttin' in again," sneered Bill.
Pan had expected this, and had fortified himself against the inevitable. "Well, get it over then once and for all," he replied, not too civilly. "You come damn near buttin' right into the weddin'!" ejaculated Smith, with a sense of what dramatic possibility had just been missed. Pan, whose back had been turned to the campfire light, suddenly whirled as if on a pivot. "What?" he cried.
Thar ain't any others in all the west except them on the fleet, an' it's them that's been talkin'. Ez shore ez we live, Major, the fleet's buttin' its way through the darkness and the wind an' the thunder an' the lightnin' and the rain an' the Injuns an' the renegades, an' is comin' straight to Fort Prescott."
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