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The county-seat's goin' to be eighteen miles south, and it will be kingdom come, a'most, before the railroad extension is any nearer 'n that. Let your university go, and come with me. I can make you rich in six months. In six weeks the coyotes will be howlin' through your college halls, and the prairie dogs layin' out a townsite on the campus, and the rattlesnakes coilin' round the doorsteps.
Whereby I had a bin starvin, and pinchin, and scrapin, and coilin, and moilin; in heat and in cold; up a early and down a late; a called here and a sent there; a bidden and a chidden, and a forbidden to boot; every body's slave forsooth; whereby I am now my own master. Why not? Who can gain say it? Mayhap a savin and exceptin of your onnurable onnur; witch is as it may be. For why?
"`Be jabers, says Pat, as he goes forward in obedience to the chief officer's order, `it's a nice pleasant look-out I'll have all by meeself! while you're coilin' the ropes here, I'll be thinkin' of my colleen there! and he went out on the foc'sl. "By and by we could hear him muttering to himself. `Wurrah, wurrah!
They've gotten their fangs into my heart, Rover, and seean they'll be coilin' thersels about my body. I niver thowt to see t' snakes clim' t' moors; they sud hae bided i' t' dale and left t' owd shipperd to dee in peace." When clipping-time came the walls had almost reached the level of the shepherd's cottage.
"Well, an' what did he punch ye for this time?" It was old Slade who put the question, seated on a chest with his back against the bulkhead. His pot was balanced on his knee, and his venerable, sardonic face, with the scanty white hair clinging about the temples, addressed Conroy with slow mockery. Conroy hesitated. "It was over coilin' away some gear," he said. Slade waited, and he had to go on.
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