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I exclaimed; "but you are a man of genius indeed," and I flung my arms around his neck. "Steady on!" he said; "don't be so what is it? ebullient." "And what then?" I asked, when my emotion had somewhat subsided. "Then," said he, "the others must be wary. You and I are mean little cusses: we shall get off. They won't want us. And what do we do? Take to the drains!" He looked at me triumphantly.
"You ought to remember that you're in the presence of your two 'darlin's. We can't love any one that cusses. You'll be smokin' a pipe or chawin' tobacker next." He chuckled, and then his voice grew hard. "Stop your wigglin', you blasted, livin' scarecrow, or I'll split your head with a rock, and this town will call it good reddance. Roll him over onto his face, Cap'n Sproul."
But he'll be droppin' along, an' then we'll hev a fight. I reckon we'll hev one any way. Them cusses ain't friendly. If they was, they'd a piled in helter-skelter to hev a talk an' ask fur whiskey." "We must keep them at a distance," said Thurstane. "You bet! The first Injun that comes nigh us. I'll shute him. They mustn't be 'lowed to git among us.
But if faither had knawed I weer never for Noy, he'd a' said more'n that. I ban't 'feared o' faither now I knaws you, Jan, but I be cruel 'feared o' bein' cussed, 'cause theer's times when cusses doan't fall to the ground but sticks. 'Twouldn' be well for the likes o' you to have a ill-wished, awver-luked body for wife. An' if faither knawed 'bout you, then I lay he'd do more'n speak.
Harlan had made no move, but the light in his eyes betrayed his complete readiness for the trouble that Haydon plainly meditated. "Yes," he said, slowly, drawling his words, a little! "It's come to that, I reckon. You've got to flash your gun now, or take it back. No man cusses me an' gets away with it. Get goin'!" Haydon stood, swaying from side to side, in the grip of a mighty indecision.
He was one uh these saving cusses but he was honest; I know that for a fact. "So he had all this money on him, and went down there with this jasper, that he'd got in with somehow and didn't know much about, and they wolfed all winter, according to all accounts, and must uh made quite a stake, the way the bounty runs up, these days.
"I could see he was making across country for the trail to Chinook, but I wanted to overhaul him and have a little casual talk about Dan. I don't suppose yuh noticed I took his rope along; I wanted some excuse for hazing after him like that, yuh see." "Uh course, such accommodating cusses as you wouldn't be none strange to him," fleered Cal.
He looked intently at the flask for a moment or two, as if expecting an answer therefrom, then he extracted the cork, and took a generous drink. But even the liquor failed to help him to a more cheerful view of the situation, for he continued: "Nobody knows me nobody sez, 'Hello! nobody axes me to name my bitters nobody even cusses me.
He won their hearts still further by something he did in midsummer. "The beer just pays for it," Blunkers explained. "I don't give um whisky cause some cusses don't drink like as dey orter." Then catching a look in Peter's face, he laughed rather shamefacedly. "I forgits," he explained. "Yer see I'm so da " he checked himself "I swears widout knowin' it." "I shall be very glad to go," said Peter.
I've got a nasty habit of my own, but I hope you won't pay no 'tention to it, for it's a habit, an' I can't help it. I don't mean nothin' by it, an' the boys all understand it, but when a man cusses me I allers knock him down do it befo' I think' I said 'jes' a habit I've got. "Well, he never cussed me all the time I was there.
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