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Feed 'em well, speak 'em kind, an' give 'em theah haids on a hahd pull er in a tight place, an' they gentle quick, an' easy an' come up pullin' arter every fall. But doan yuh never go to crowdin' of 'em onreasonable at thu wrong time er they'll balk an' lay down, er kick over thu dash-boahd an' run away, accordin' to thu natuah o' thu brute.
We hustles the flyin' demon full eighteen miles, our faithful dogs crowdin' close an' breathless at his coward heels. Still, they don't catch up with him; he streaks it like some saffron meteor. "'Only once does we approach within strikin' distance; that's when he crosses at old Stafford's whiskey still. As he glides into view, Crittenden shouts: ""Thar he goes!" "'For myse'f I'm prepared.
Besides, we want to know all about all kinds of land, close to the big cities as well as back in the mountains." "Gee! this must be the Porchugeeze headquarters," was Billy's reiterated comment, as they walked through San Leandro. "It looks as though they'd crowd our kind out," Saxon adjudged. "Some tall crowdin', I guess," Billy grumbled.
But, say, Ed, I hear they're crowdin' the rustlers a plenty up in the Indian Territory and the Pan Handle, and she's a cinch they'll be down on you thick in a few months. And, say, Ed, don't forget old Jim; when the rustlers come, send for him. You know he's the cheapest proposition ever never any lawyers' fees or court costs, nothin' to pay but just Jim's wages."
"It presses in, too," he thought. "It's all crowdin' over me. I'm just me by myself, all alone." A tear made a white course down his grimy cheek, then another and another. He brushed them impatiently away with the cap he still held in his hand. Rising abruptly, he turned away from the window, and the hot air of the room again smote him.
The hat was passed by the floor-manager during the evening, and Daddy got nearly three dollars, which delighted Milton very much. At supper he insisted on his prerogative, which was to take the prettiest girl out to supper. "Look-a-here, Daddy, ain't that crowdin' the mourners?" objected the others. "What do you mean by that, sir? No, sir!
As for Easy Aaron, he's goin' about in clouds of personal an' speshul delight. It's now crowdin' along towards the time when him an' his clients will adjourn over to that county seat an' give Easy Aaron the opportoonity to write his name on the deathless calendars of fame. "'But black disapp'intment gets Easy Aaron squar' in the door.
"Ef things kep hittin' their present gait, why, I don't jest see wher' we're to strike bottom. The pinch ain't yet, but you can't never kick out a prop without shakin' the whole darned buildin' mighty bad. An' that's how the Obar's fixed. Ther's a mighty big punch gone plumb out o' Jeff's fight, an', well, I guess we're needin' all our punch to fix the things crowdin' around us."
The hat was passed by the floor-manager during the evening, and Daddy got nearly three dollars, which delighted Milton very much. At supper he insisted on his prerogative, which was to take the prettiest girl out to supper. "Look-a-here, Daddy, ain't that crowdin' the mourners?" objected the others. "What do you mean by that, sir? No, sir!
Her like a spirit all in white and a face was both the saddest and the upliftedest ever I see; and them rough men all crowdin' up to their places, so soft you'd thought they was barefoot 'stead of heavy shod; and Jessie with her arms round the two little ones, and her mother pitchin' the tune, same as usual, and and I declare I can't keep the tears back yet, rememberin'. Before she was done the whole kerboodle of us was sobbin' and cryin' like a passel of young ones, and there was she, with her broken heart, as calm and serene as an angel.
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