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Short-sighted Poppy! she forgot Cy; but Burney didn't, and sent him to climb in at the window, and undo the door. Feeling hurt that the young ladies hadn't asked him to the feast, Cy hardened his heart against them, and delivered them up to the enemy, regardless of Poppy's threats and Nelly's prayers. "Poppy proposed it, she broke the jar, and I didn't eat much.
In the meantime I'll see the chairman of the committee on that bill one of the so-called 'pork' bills it is. Possibly from him and some other acquaintances of mine I may learn something. At any rate, you come to dinner." So the invitation was accepted, and Captain Cy went back to his own hotel and his room.
Bill Yohe, by way of a joke, put some frosting down the back of Cy Hurd, and, by way of delicate attention to Ella, alternately shoved her out of the seat and pulled her back again, while Joe hurled a chicken-leg at Cad Hines as she stood in the entry-way.
'Twas a regular slap in the face for me, and Sarah Emma and I ain't got over it yet." Captain Cy heard the gossip concerning the new teacher and it rather pleased him. She appeared to be independent, and he liked independence. He met her once or twice on the street, but she merely bowed and passed on.
What had this bright happy little life to look forward to on the desolate plateau of the Sleeper Indians. "Wolves are great greedy creatures," he said. "They eat up everything they can get. They're real wicked." "So's Injuns then." Steve laughed at the childish logic, as the little man rattled on. "I's hunt wolves when I grows big. I hunts 'em like Uncle Cy, an' seals, too. I kills 'em.
The idea crossed Levin's mind that the scullion of Patty Cannon must have gone crazy. "Whair did you pick up them words, Cy?" Levin asked. "Hokey-pokey!" answered Cy James, with a more mysterious and impressive sufflation; "Hokey-pokey! By smoke! and Pangymonum, too!" "Why, Cy! what do you mean? Jimmy Phoebus never swars but in them air words. Do you know Jimmy Phoebus?"
So the knowledge of the existence of the banditti was known to one man for a long time. As to Bannack, it was one of the wildest camps ever known in any land. Pistol fire was heard incessantly, and one victim after another was added to the list. George Ives, Johnny Cooper, George Carrhart, Hayes Lyons, Cy Skinner, and others of the toughs were now open associates of the leading spirit, Plummer.
Why, I'm expectin' a boardin' party any minute," he added. "I thought when you knocked it was 'papa' comin' for his child. You'd better go." But she stood still. "I shan't go," she declared. "Or, at least, not until you promise to let me try to help you. If they come, so much the better. They'll learn where my sympathies are." Captain Cy scratched his head. "See here, Miss Phoebe," he said.
"I've been wantin' to ask ye a question, Doc, a sort o' darned fool question, ye know, nothing in the way of consultation, don't you see, though it's kin er in the way o' your purfeshun. Sabe?" "Go on, Cy," said the doctor good-humoredly, "this is my dispensary hour." "Oh! it ain't anything about symptoms, Doc, and there ain't anything the matter with me.
"Mother, here's your beef tea," said a brief voice. Alfred Price fled. He met his son just as he was entering his own house, and burst into a confidence: "Cy, my boy, come aft and splice the main-brace. Cyrus, what a female! She knocked me higher than Gilroy's kite. And her mother was as sweet a girl as you ever saw!" He drew his son into a little, low-browed, dingy room at the end of the hall.
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