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Sez I, "Your expenditure of money today has been unusial." Sez I, "The sum of ten cents has jest been raised by you for noble principles, and I honer you for it. But still the money has gone." Sez I, "Do you feel able to incur the entire expense?" Sez he, "All my life, Samantha, I have jest hankered after seein' a mermaid. Them beautiful creeters, a settin' and combin' their long golden tresses.
He stepped swiftly to the one window, which was over the table, and dropped the burlap shade. Then he closed the door. "So they've been here?" asked Rathburn. "What else could you expect?" replied Price testily. "They're combin' these hills for you." He looked at Rathburn keenly, but Rathburn only smiled. "That's not news to me," he said quietly; "I've percolated through their lines twice."
When we're down in Mexico that time, with old Zach Taylor, an' needs meat, we don't go ridin' our mounts to death combin' the hills for steers. All we does is round up a band of padres, or monks, an' then trade 'em to their par'lyzed congregations for cattle. We used to get about ten steers for a padre; an' we doles out them divines, one at a time, as we needs the beef.
It's like a heap o' woo' just after shearin' time; it's worth a deal, but it tak's a vast o' combin', an' cardin', an' spinnin' afore it can be made use on. Having ended his oration, much to his own satisfaction, Kester tossed off his glass of wine, smacked his lips, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, pocketed his cake, and made off. That night Sylvia spoke of his visit to her husband.
"Too bad, Matt," drawled Black Mart, "that the little Allan kid's usin' Baldy. He was allers an ornery beast, an' combin' his hair an' puttin' tassels an' fancy harness on him ain't goin' t' make a racer outen a cur." Ben's face flushed hotly.
What's the matter, pa?" asked his wife, for the old cowpuncher's face was pale even through his tan. "Young Seaton was jest here. He an' a hundred other fellers is combin' the range an' warnin' everyone agin that Dan Barry. The bullet in his shoulder he got it while he was breaking jail with Lee Haines. An' he shot down the hosses of two men an' his dog pulled down a third one."
Man, she's the best geared boat of her class that ever left Clyde! Kinloch, my second, knew her as well as I did. I found him dryin' his socks on the main-steam, an' combin' his whiskers wi' the comb Janet gied me last year, for the warld an' a' as though we were in port.
"I war 'stonished," continued the sailor, without heeding the odd interpolation of the sea-cook, "wonderful 'stonished when that flyin'-fish chucked itself aboard our bit o' plankin', an' it no bigger than the combin' o' a hatchway. What kud 'a conducted it thear, to that spot above all others o' the broad ocean? What but the hand o' that angel as sits up aloft?
They're half fish and half woman and they set on rocks, combin' their hair and singin' and the ships go to pieces on the rocks 'cause the sailors are so anxious to see 'em they forget where they're goin'." "There ain't no rocks outside my door as I know of," Matilda returned, "and only one rocker inside." "No, nor your hair ain't like theirs neither. The paper said their hair was golden."
Theer's a mermaid lives in 't a woman, I tell tha, wi' a fish's tail it's in a book, an he read it out, soa theer an on Easter Eve neet she cooms out, and walks about t' Scout, combin her hair an if onybody sees her an wishes for soomthin, they get it, sartin sure; an 'Mermaids is just faddle an nonsense, interrupted David, tersely. 'Oh, is they? Then I spose books is faddle.
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