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Updated: May 27, 2025
Prisidint Taft repoorted stymied. He's th' best goluf player we've iver had as prisidint. He cud give Abra'm Lincoln a shtroke a stick. He bate th' champeen iv the' wurruld last week be a scoore iv wan hundhred an' eighty-two to siventy-six. He did so. "Here's a column about yisterdah's game. 'A large crowd assimbled to see th' match. Prisidint appeared ca'm an' collected.
"I felt sort as if I was coming up into a reg'lar twister, and thought it would be safer to reef a mite and make for ca'm waters. My head begun to whirl, and I cal'lated I'd best weigh anchor while my soundings was good." "But isn't it bad form for you to desert like this?" she asked, her big eyes dancing mischievously. "I ain't exactly deserting, I cal'late.
The nigh leader is a steady practical person as a lead mule oughter be, an' I notes by his ca'm jedgmatical eye that he's goin' to give himse'f the benefit of every doubt, an' ain't out to go stampedin' off none without knowin' the reason why.
'Shorty, she said, cold an' ca'm; 'you tell Kane to get out of jail and go to Antrim's cabin, and kill him!" Lawler had sat, grim and silent, listening to Shorty. Twice had Shorty seen his eyes quicken when Shorty had mentioned his mother, and again when he had spoken of Antrim's action in burning the Circle L buildings.
Ca'm yourself. You've got the job, but there's a lot of work to be done before you become part owner of the finest car on earth, the peerless wonder of the transportation world, the winged victory of the roads. Don't let your head swell, James. Better keep it solid bone than have it turn into a toy balloon; because the latter can be pricked with a bare bodkin."
"I don't reckon he does; but what put that into your head?" "What PUT it dar? Didn' he jis' dis minute sing out like he knowed you?" Tom says, in a puzzled-up kind of way: "Well, that's mighty curious. WHO sung out? WHEN did he sing out? WHAT did he sing out?" And turns to me, perfectly ca'm, and says, "Did YOU hear anybody sing out?"
Slattery, the prison physician, or anybody round this town that knows the full circumstances kin tell you the same, ef you ast 'em. You see, son, I ain't never nervoused up like some men would be in my place. I'm always jest ez ca'm like ez whut you are this minute. The way I look at it, I'm jest a chosen instrument of the law.
At last the surgeon was so full of admiration that he said, 'Well, you ARE a brave little thing! and she said, just as ca'm and simple as if she was talking about the weather, 'There isn't anybody braver but the Cid! You see? it was the boy-twin that the surgeon was a-dealing with. "Who is the Cid?" "I don't know, sir at least only what she says.
But he set there and studied and studied till I was that distressed I didn't know what to do; then he says, very ca'm, and I could a shot him for it: "Well," he says, "I'm right down sorry, Aunt Polly, but I reckon I got to be excused for the present."
Then there was a racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down she goes, and the front wall of the crowd begins to roll in like a wave. Just then Sherburn steps out on to the roof of his little front porch, with a double-barrel gun in his hand, and takes his stand, perfectly ca'm and deliberate, not saying a word. The racket stopped, and the wave sucked back.
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