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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Wat's de matter on your face?" said Poleon. "You been fightin'?" "I ain't shaved in a long time, and this here excitement has kind of shattered my nerves. I didn't have no lookin'-glass, neither, in my shack, so I had to use a lard-can cover. Does it look bad?" "Not to my way of thinkin'," said Gale, allaying "No Creek's" anxiety. "It's more desp'rate than bad, but it sort of adds expression."
The gentleman in blue, and the man in orange, who were the chief exquisites of the party, ordered 'cold shrub and water, but with the others, gin-and-water, sweet, appeared to be the favourite beverage. Sam called the greengrocer a 'desp'rate willin, and ordered a large bowl of punch two circumstances which seemed to raise him very much in the opinion of the selections.
"Let's see, let's see, STRANger," cried Gershom, emphasizing the syllable we have put in italics, as if especially to betray his origin, "what you can do with your tools. I've heer'n tell of such doin's, but never see'd a bee lined in all my life, and have a desp'rate fancy for larnin' of all sorts, from 'rithmetic to preachin'."
And it's a case of lockout, with the lady customers ragin' on the outside, and nobody knows what's takin' place behind the ground glass. That wa'n't excitin' enough to lure me from a steady job for long, though, unless some one was goin' to do more'n look desp'rate and talk spiteful. "Ah, why not smash something?" I sings out. "Didn't any lady think to bring a brick in her vanity bag?"
'Bije had been mighty kind to him, that's a fact." "Yes. Father was kind; I know that better than anyone else. But Mr. Pearson was right. Yes, he was right, and brave." "So I size it up. And I do sympathize with your father, too. This wa'n't such an awful lot worse than a good many stock deals. And poor 'Bije was perfectly desp'rate, I guess.
"'Which I'm shorely saddest when I shoots, says Enright to me, as he reloads his gun one time. "These yere humane sentiments, however, don't deter him from shootin' soon an' aimin' low, which latter habits makes Wolfville's honoured chief a highly desp'rate game to get ag'inst.
I'm bashful speshul of girls; for I soon discovers that it's easier to face a gun than a girl, an' the glance of her eye is more terrifyin' than the glimmer of a bowie. That's the way I feels. It's a fact; I remembers a time when my mother, gettin' plumb desp'rate over my hoomility, offers me a runnin' hoss if I'd go co't a girl; on which o'casion I feebly urges that I'd rather walk.
I throwed away my emp'y gun, an' drawed my bowie, expectin' nothin' else than a regular stand-up tussle wi' the bar. I knowd it wur no use turnin' tail now; so I braced myself up for a desp'rate fight. "But jest as the bar hed got 'ithin ten feet o' me, an idee suddintly kim into my head. I hed been to Santa Fe, among them yaller-hided Mexikins, whur I hed seed two or three bull-fights.
"''Course she is, says I; 'I see that a long spell ago. "'But what'll I DO? says he. 'A woman like 'er is a desp'rate character. If we hever git hashore she might be for lugging me to the church and marrying me by main force. "'Then you'll have to marry her, for all I see, says I. 'You shouldn't be so fascinating. "That made him mad and he went off jawing to himself.
There's holes through and through of 'em, and it's most desp'rate sloppy out of doors this mornin'." Mrs. Home took the little worn-out shoes in her hand; she saw at a glance that they were quite past mending. "Leave them here, Anne," she said. "You are right, he cannot wear these again. I will go out at once and buy him another pair."
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