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Updated: May 15, 2025
They ain't no use tryin' to get by at this part o' the line till you got that village." "Don't talk so bloomin' ignorant! Ain't that just wot they been a-tryin'? Wot we got to do is go 'round 'Ulluch. Tyke 'em in the rear an' from both sides." "W'y don't they get on with it? Wot to blazes are we a-doin' of, givin' 'em a chanct to get dug in again?
Beyond question they had been soldiers militia volunteers for while there was only one uniform among them, they all wore army belts, and a service insignia appeared on their hats. Tim vented his feelings in a smothered oath. "Militia, by God!" he muttered gruffly. "No guard set; the bloody Injuns jumped 'em frum out them woods. Those poor devils never hed no chanct. Ain't thet it, Cap?"
The girth's broken; I'll have to make another hole in the strap." The word "boy" being a generic term was promptly appropriated by each of the youngsters as applying to himself, and a fierce scramble ensued in which the larger was victorious. "Skeeter's it," announced the flagman, a self-constituted umpire. "Git out 'er the way there, Chick, and give the gent a chanct to see what he's a-doin'."
"In concludin' I repeet that this here is ondoubtfully the luckiest wreck in the lives of any one of you, which it gives you a unpressagented chanct to see with your own eyes a hustlin' Western town that hain't ashamed to stand on her own legs an' lead the world along the trail to prosperity.
They tell me them buryin' hills is great places fer their lookouts, an' sometimes their folks'll go up on top o' them hills and set there a few days, or maybe overnight, a-hopin' they'll dream something. They want to dream something that'll give 'em a better line on how to run off a whole cavvie-vard o' white men's hosses, next time they git a chanct."
Th' Maid o' th' North is sheathed fer ice, an' we could freeze her in, some place down th' coast, an' be on hand t' sail when th' ice clears in th' spring, We could let th' folks know where we were t' freeze up, an' we'd pick up a lot o' fur before th' ice breaks, an' th' natives'd hold th' rest until we calls comin' south. The's a big chanct there," said the mate, conclusively.
I s'pose you thought you'd have me sobbin' on your shoulder to give you a chanct to play up, an' do the strong-husband act, comfortin' his little tremblin' wife. Well, my lad, if you ain't got on to it by now, that I'm no little, tremblin' wife, you never will. Those kind has nerves. I only got nerve. That's where I'm singular, see? A joke, Sammy! I made it up myself. Out of my own head, just now.
If you once threw a leg over that blue roan, I can see where some of us would do some riding." "If I'd been thinkin' of leavin' you, it would 'a' been afore we got here, sheriff." "So it's 'sheriff' now, and not Jim, eh?" "It sure is if you're thinkin' o' lockin' me up. You treated me white back there in El Paso so I'm tellin' you that if you lock me up and I git a chanct, I'll sure vamose."
Primmie and her mistress watched him from the window as he meandered out of the yard. Primmie made the first remark. "There now, Miss Martha," she said, "DON'T he look like an undertaker? Them black clothes and that standin' collar and and the kind of still way he walks and talks. Wouldn't you expect him to be sayin': 'The friends of the diseased will now have a chanct to "
"Well, boy," she went on, in this new mood, "let us hope an' pray dat in yore case dey's yit hope. De ways of de Almighty is pas' findin' out. Fur do not de Scriptures say dey's room fur both man an' beast? de maid servant an' de man servant, de ox an' de ass, dey all may enter in? So dey mout be a skimsy, bare chanct fur sech even ez you is.
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