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And it come that John got to payin' more attention to Demijohn than he did to punchin' cows. Then come a day when John got sick of chasin' Demijohn all over the range, and he quit. "But the first thing he knowed, Demijohn was a chasin' him.
"Stranger," was the latter's rejection, "I come into this country to make money outa the ground an' not outa my fellow critters." Breck rummaged in his boat and produced a demijohn of whiskey. Shorty's hand half went out to it and stopped abruptly. He shook his head. "There's that blamed White Horse right below, an' they say it's worse than the Box. I reckon I don't dast tackle any lightning."
As he stepped into his wagon, it struck him that the gallon demijohn was a little in his way, and so, lifting it out, he said to Mrs. Jones, "I wish you would take care of this until I come back." "O! certainly," replied Mrs. Jones, "with the greatest pleasure." And so the demijohn was left in the lady's care. Some time afterwards Mr.
The casual mention of Clinch's name produced the effect which the speaker probably intended. The stranger stared at Clinch, who, apparently oblivious of the conversation, was blinking his cold gray eyes at the fire. Dropping his aggressive tone to mere querulousness, the man sought the whiskey demijohn, and helped himself and his companions. Fortified by liquor he returned to the fire.
French Frank was in love with her, though I did not know it at the time; and she steadfastly refused to marry him. French Frank poured a tumbler of red wine from a big demijohn to drink to our transaction. I remembered the red wine of the Italian rancho, and shuddered inwardly. Whisky and beer were not quite so repulsive.
Sobriety and industry were returned to him in many of the good things of this world which he had lost, and he was still in the upward movement at the time when the fatal pestilence appeared. On going home at dinner time, Hobart's wife said to him, with a serious face "A demijohn, with some kind of liquor in it, was sent here to-day."
Yes, upon the floor lay flannel shirts and jumpers and overalls. In a corner, where the Professor had left it, stood the demijohn of whisky. Uncle Jake lifted it. "Gosh," said he, "the whisky's gone, too!" "Thank Heaven!" muttered the Professor, wiping his forehead. "Why?" "Don't you understand? By the luck of things, they've taken their medicine!" "A quart apiece!" I gasped.
"Can't ye get the poor critter some whiskey?" he queried, fretfully. "Ye used to be peart enuff before." As Flip turned to the corner to lift the demijohn, Fairley took occasion to kick the squaw with his foot, and indicate by extravagant pantomime that the bargain was not to be alluded to before the girl. Flip poured out some whiskey in a tin cup, and, approaching the squaw, handed it to her.
I saw him over on the island. I declare! To think of an empty demijohn having so much good in it!" The whole community was stirred up over the news of the capture of the tramp. It made a first-class excitement for a place of that size; but none of the inhabitants took a deeper interest in the matter than did Ford and Frank and the two Hart boys.
The steams of cookery arose from an adjoining kitchen, but the principal attraction was in a demijohn of fair proportions, which had been ostentatiously placed on high by Betty as the object most worthy of notice.
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