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He rested his lean jaw in one huge hand, musing, dim-eyed, silent. Far away a cow bell tinkled, and he turned his head, peering out across the tangled pasture lot. "We called our caow Jinny," he said. "She's saucy and likes to plague folks. But I don't never chase her; no, ma'am.
Yet there it was his Colt's, out, cocked, wicked and yearning and ready. He whirled it with tempting carelessness, butt first, muzzle first, his discolored teeth set in a yellow grin. The breath of the spectators vented in a sigh. "Haow'll yu take it, Mister?" he gibed. "I could l'arn an old caow to beat yu on the draw. Aw, shucks! I 'laow yu'd better go back to yore pasteboards. Naow git!"
At eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 21st we saw the island Caow from the masthead, bearing north-west by west three-quarters west. This island is a high mountain with a sharp-pointed top, and is the north-westernmost of all the Friendly Islands. At noon we saw it very distinctly from the deck, it being then nineteen leagues distant from us. Thursday 23.
I'll bark his nose quicker'n a brindle caow kin kick over a pail of milk, by gum!" Ephraim was in earnest. "Hold on," said Frank, quickly, "what are you going to do?" "Fight, by gum!" "But you can't fight here." "Why not?" "You would be arrested and placed in the guard tent." "Wal, ef a feller can't fight, whut ye makin' all this taowse abaout?"
"My son Daniel," the Captain introduced. "This stranger travels to Zion with us, Daniel, in the employ of Mr. Jenks." The youth had the grip of a vise, and seemed to enjoy emphasizing it while cunningly watching my face. "Haowdy?" he drawled. With that he twanged a sentence or two to his father. "I faound the caow, Dad. Do yu reckon to pull aout to-day?" "I have not decided.
Twenty year ago, when he come to these 'ere diggings, that air Squire Hawkins was a poar Yankee school-master, that said 'pail' instid of bucket, and that called a cow a 'caow, and that couldn't tell to save his gizzard what we meant by 'low and by right smart . But he's larnt our ways now, an' he's jest as civilized as the rest of us. You would-n know he'd ever been a Yankee.
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