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So that if one of the Old Testament Egyptians that they've been diggin' up lately had had one of these boxes with him it might have been uncorked and people could have heard in his own voice just who he was and what was his personal opinion of Moses and his brother Aaron.
And you don't have cold chills up the spine every time the boss lugs down an after breakfast grouch. Course, a duck like Mallory can't get in any such game; so he's got to dig away at the filin' case and wear his last summer's suit until Christmas. Diggin' and keepin' quiet seemed to be his only play.
Why, down in the Coconino country they used to set half a dozen greasers diggin' graves, by cripes, soon as I started in to argy with a man. It was a safe bet they'd need three or four, anyways, if old Bud cut loose oncet. Sheepherders? Why, they jest natcherly couldn't keep enough on hand, securely, to run their sheep. They used to order sheepherders like they did woolsacks, by cripes!
"If yore vitals is as close to your hide as what you claim," Casey had said impatiently, "an' you don't want any punctures in 'em, git to work an' git that hide of yourn outa sight. It'll take some diggin'; they's a lot of yuh to cover." Barney, therefore, dug like a badger with a dog snuffing at its tail.
"Well, Henry," I said, taking my seat also on the box, "did you really ever dig for money?" as if I had never before heard him say anything about it. The implied doubt would, I knew, make him all the more ready to talk. He replied promptly, with a grin of interest, "Yes, sah, cose I tried money diggin'." Then he paused as if to await an invitation to proceed. "Go on, Uncle Henry," urged Jamesby.
"Ay, ay, comin' sir-r," floated back on the night wind; and, shortly afterwards, the Irishman stumbled into camp with his hands, his face, and his clothes plentifully bedaubed with mud. "Why, what have you been about?" inquired Ned. "Diggin' for goold, sure.
"Well, you need not," retorted Mr. Watson, as he made a fling at Yankee's other eye, and with very good success. "You know my sentiments, gentlemen. I was opposed to bringing the prisoner here. We might have fixed up the matter all at one time, and saved a heap of diggin'." "It might have done," said the tall Miler, doubtfully; "but I wouldn't like to see the two together.
Had 'em doin' most every sort of rough work in my time, diggin' ditches, mendin' roads, cuttin' fence posts all that sort of thing. Guess it's about all I'm fit for." The effort died lugubriously and he sat, waiting. He hated personal confidences and there hung a most particularly uncomfortable one in the offing. The silence was like a living thing.
"Wal, they got it all planned out. They was to wait till the full moon, and then they was to get Primus King to go with 'em and help do the diggin'. Ye see, Hokum and Toddy Whitney and Wiggin are all putty softly fellers, and hate dreffully to work; and I tell you the Kidd money ain't to be got without a pretty tough piece o' diggin. Why, it's jest like diggin' a well to get at it.
He allus said she was beautiful, the most beautiful woman in the world " She sat there with her eyes flashin', but I didn't want to let her make up things 'at wasn't so an' then be disappointed. "Who do you suppose George was, an' Jack?" sez I quiet. She drew her brows together an' sat diggin' her spur into the dirt. "That's so, too," she said, thinkin' aloud.
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