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"It's hard to know jest when to set or stand or pray, but it keeps things from draggin'," she thought, "and thar's no chanct to git sleepy. It keeps me jest on the hump without no rayhearsal fer all this scene shiftin'." Her little heart quickened in glad relief when the erect form of John Meredith ascended the pulpit to deliver the sermon. "That other one was jest the understudy," she concluded.
Miss Eyester fibbed without a pang of conscience: "I never dreamed it." "I thought you wouldn't look at anybody unless they had money you bein' rich 'n' ever'thing." "In the winter I earn my living cataloguing books in a public library. I hate it." Pinkey laid an arm about her thin shoulders. "Say, what's the chanct of gittin' along with you f'rever an' ever?"
My man and my son 'lowed the West was gettin' right quiet for them, and they'd just take a chanct down here, to see a little life in other parts." "I hadn't heard of this last marriage of yours, Aunt Mandy," I ventured. "Oh, yes, me and him hooked up right soon atter you and the gal got lost. Don't see how you missed our place when you come East.
My compadre, here, can't drink and he can't cook." "Three breakfasts before ten o'clock?" protested Constance. But Tom was inexorable. "Eat when you get a chanct," he insisted. "That's a good rule." Barkley drew Ellsworth to one side. "I can't figure these people out," he complained. Ellsworth chuckled. "I told you you'd need help, Barkley," he said. "They've got ways of their own.
The cowboy laughed. "He was scared to open her up, so I took a chanct, seein' as I'm agent for the purvention of crulty to Hoboes." "Well, you got a fine chance to make a record this evening" said Sundown, estimating with experienced eye the possibilities of Antelope and its environs. "I et at Albuquerque." "Ain't a bad town to eat in," commented the puncher, gazing at the sky.
We all had different ways of expressing it. Windy Bill subsequently remarked: "I felt like some old Injun He-God had just told me to crawl in my hole and give them that knew how a chanct." But I know we all stopped short, frozen in our tracks, and stared, and I don't believe man, or horse, drew a deep breath. Nearer and nearer the stallion drew to the ranch. Now he was within a few yards.
They're about the only queer folks we have in Lindsay, Master, except old Peter Cook, who keeps twenty-five cats. Lord, Master, think of it! What chanct would a poor mouse have? None of the rest of us are queer, leastwise, we hain't found it out if we are. But, then, we're mighty uninteresting, I'm bound to admit that."
Ah says to mahself, jest the other day, Ah ain't never had no fun or chanct to better mahself, Ah says: 'Sary Dodd, when you get Jeb you plan to go about like-as-how Anne Stewart is doin'. Nolla, thar ain't nuthin' like a bit of travel to polish folks up, is thar now?" "You're right, Sary! Just exactly right," laughed Eleanor.
"The rest o' that ar party done gone up-stairs to roost," said the minister. "I reckon my dog'll keep 'em thar. We better jest tote these men inter the house an' have a prayin' bee. I've got a right smart good chanct, now, to whop ol' Satan." They moved the raiders' horses. Then the party save Harry Needles, who stayed in the grove to keep watch took its captives into the cabin.
"Don't you take no chances, no matter how much sob stuff I hand you, fer, I'll give it to you straight, ef I get the chanct I'll make my get-away; but I can't do it wit my flippers trussed, an' you wit a brace of gats sittin' on me. Let's have a light, Eddie. That won't do nobody any harm, an' it may discourage the rats." Eddie backed across the office to a table where stood a small lamp.
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