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'Folks in t' next room will be wanting their victual, and singing is allays out o' tune to empty bellies. 'But there's them here as 'll take it ill if they're not asked. I heerd Josiah Pratt a-clearing his throat not a minute ago, an' he thinks as much on his singin' as a cock does on his crowin'. 'If one sings I'm afeard all on 'em will like to hear their own pipes.
I think you'll find a good many of the society feel as I do, shocked and hum ha! sorry. I'm surprised they haven't been here to say so." "I expected them," remarked the minister. "So did I," chimed in Captain Zeb. "But I cal'late to know why they ain't been. They're all too busy crowin' over the way Nat Hammond fetched the packet home last night. WHAT? You ain't heard?
I've knowed Jim to trade off washin' the pots an' pans fer a lonely watch on a rainy night. All he wants is to see you show him the same as Nels is crowin' over. Then he'll crow over his bunkie, Frank Slade, an' then Frank'll get lonely to know all about this wonderful bread-machine. Cowboys are amazin' strange critters, Miss Majesty.
Johnnie felt boyishly shy and awkward then, looking at the floor and wriggling his toes, and taking back into his cheeks quite a supply of color in the form of blushes. One-Eye also broke forth with commendations. "That's the ticket!" he cried. "No crowin'! Aw, Johnnie, y're a blamed white kid!"
"Now if the roosters don't start crowin'," says I, "or a tornado don't hit us, or an earthquake break loose, all will be well. But if any of them things do happen, I'll be blamed." "Nonsense," says Vee. "Auntie is going to have a nice, quiet, restful night and in the morning she will be herself again." "Here's hoping," says I.
"That's good," said her aunt, slightly mollified. "At least Martin Howe can't go crowin' over me that is, unless Elias Barnes tells him. 'Twould be exactly like Elias to do it. He is just that mean." Although Ellen did not own it, Lucy knew that had the case been reversed, she would have been the first to crow unhesitatingly not only over Elias but over Martin.
Pete was his bunkie. Andy didn't want to fight, but if Gary pulled his gun . . . Bailey got up quietly, and turning his back on Gary told Pete and Andy to saddle up and ride out to relieve two of the boys on night-herd. It was Bud Long who broke the tension. "It's right late for young roosters to be crowin' that way," he chuckled. Everybody laughed except Gary.
'Folks in t' next room will be wanting their victual, and singing is allays out o' tune to empty bellies. 'But there's them here as 'll take it ill if they're not asked. I heerd Josiah Pratt a-clearing his throat not a minute ago, an' he thinks as much on his singin' as a cock does on his crowin'. 'If one sings I'm afeard all on 'em will like to hear their own pipes.
He's getting fat and sassy right now out in his coop behind the bungalow." "Well den!" cried Wash. "I done took him wid me, an' I done brought him back. Wot furder elimination ob de fac's does dem folks want? Don't Buttsy crowin' away dar prove it?" And Washington White walked off with his head held very high as though he had made a perfectly unanswerable statement of the case.
The only lad ever I had, and my first-born. Dear o' me, I mind how proud I was when they telled me 'twas a lad. 'A fine lad, said the woman as did for me. Eh, I thought my heart 'ud fair burst wi' joy! An' he wur sech a gradely little chap, so peart an' lively, crowin' an' laughin' from morn till neet. Dear, yes soon as ever leet coom he'd come creepin' up to our bed an' pull at the sheet.
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