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Updated: June 23, 2025
'An old chap wi' married daughters! 'Huh! says the Second. 'They're aye the wurrs't. But I'm glad ye punched him, mister, he says. 'Many a time I'd ha' done the same, only we were on articles. Rosa, too! "'Ay, says the Chief, 'but Rosa'll have to put up with men clawin' her now.
Shucks! thar hain't one o' th' lot could sit a real twister long enough to git his seat warm; about th' second jump would have 'em clawin' sand. "Only thing in their hull circus wo'th lookin' at is that red-maned gal, an' she looks that sweet an' innercent she don't 'pear to rightly belong in that thar bare-legged bunch o' she dido-cutters. They-all must 'a mavericked her recent.
"Buck had five of 'em, cross old fellers, and he showed 'em off. I played with 'em once, jest for fun, and he thought it would make a hit to have me show off instead of him. But they had a way of clawin' and huggin' that wasn't nice, and you couldn't never tell whether they were good-natured or ready to bite your head off.
The idea as he's wanderin' around just carelessly lookin' into everythin' as ain't locked upsets me for listenin' to the minister anyway, but lately my patience has been up on its hind legs in church clawin' an' yowlin' more 'n ever, for it seems as if the minister gets tamer an' tamer faster an' faster as time rolls on, an' between not likin' to hear him an' bein' half mad to get back to Elijah I'm beginnin' to wish as God in His infinite mercy had let me be somethin' besides a Christian.
"What you clawin' your head that way for?" he suddenly demanded as Dade continued to puzzle over his problem. Dade grinned. "I'm goin' to halve these sills together. But I'm wantin' to make sure that the halves will be made reverse, so's they'll fit. An' I don't seem to be able to fix it clear in my mind." "You was braggin' some on bein' a carpenter."
"McCabe," says he, hoarse and husky, "I I've done a dreadful thing!" "Why, Dudley!" says I. "I can't believe it." "But I have," says he, clawin' me on the shoulder. "Oh, I I've disgraced myself!" "How?" says I. "Called some German composer out of his right name, or what?" "No, no!" says he. "I I can't tell you." "Eh?" says I, starin' puzzled. "Well, you'd better." "True, I'm your guest," says he.
"Tommy boy," he says anxious, "ye won't be shtirrin' oop the Kid. He ain't been into anything rampageous, nor the women, nor the drink, nor clawin' to do nothin', since we coom, and me gettin' fat with the pacefulness of it. Lave him aisy for the love of God!"
They starts clawin' at his elbows, and grabbin' his coat, and when I notices one wild-eyed brunette reachin' for a hatpin I knew it was a case of me to the rescue or sendin' in an ambulance call. Not that I had any notion what ought to be done in a case like this.
I stood on a corner clawin' hunks of fog off my intellect. In two minutes more I'd ha' yearned for Mrs. Scraggs and Home.
If poor Beck didn't let go then in airnest, and sing out for dear life, it's a pity, for she had gone head first into the swill tub, and the tea-kettle had scalded her feet. She kept a-dancin' right up and down, like one ravin' distracted mad, and boo-hoo'd like anything, clawin' away at her head the whole time, to clear away the stuff that stuck to her wool.
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