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“Scold her! You can’t,” Dicky said disgustedly. “She’s too cute. And then if you did scold her it wouldn’t do any good. She’s the naughtiest baby in the neighborhood—although,” he added with pride, “I think Delia’s going to be pretty nearly as naughty when she gets big enough. But Betsy Hale—why, the whole street has to keep an eye on her.
Now, of course, this was a most ridiculous and maudlin way to talk. Moreover, no man belongs on his knees beside a dog, even though the man be a sot and the dog a thoroughbred. In his calmer moments Link Ferris would have known this. A high-bred collie, too, has no use for sloppy emotion, but shuns its exhibition well-nigh as disgustedly as he shuns a drunkard.
If not, and you care to sit here with me for an hour or two, maybe a little more, I can promise to show you a sight you will never forget. 'What is it? she asked curiously, wondering if he meant a moonrise over the far desert mountains. 'It is the birth of a mining camp. For there will be one here before morning. 'Surely not so soon? Who will know? 'Who? he grunted disgustedly. 'Everybody!
"See that hoss sunfishin'!" burst out another. "An' corkscrewin'!" added a third. "Better 'n a outlaw!" amplified a fourth. And now the first again: "Stay with him, Alex! I got two dollars Oh, hell!" this disgustedly. "Come out o' that corner!" Then suddenly he turned, face red as fire, and apologized to Helen. "I beg your pardon, Miss Richards," he offered, meekly.
Bassett flung himself disgustedly into a chair and straightened a newspaper with a vicious crackle as the last of the other reporters hurried out. He thought he caught a gleam of merry pity in the reporter's eye. Never mind. Let 'em laugh. Let 'em wait.
"I don't know what we could have been thinking of, to leave you all alone " "But did you get him?" cried Mollie impatiently. "No, worse luck," responded Will disgustedly, while the guard mopped his perspiring forehead. "That spy was a slippery customer. We did get something out of it, though." "What?" they cried eagerly. "This," said Will, holding up something that gleamed white in the moonlight.
"How many bottles of that stuff are there left?" asked Kalman disgustedly. "And why would you be wanting to know?" enquired Mackenzie cautiously. "You would not be taking any of the whiskey yourself?" he added in grave reproof. "Oh, go on! you old fool!" replied the boy angrily. "You will never be any good till it is all done, I know."
In his touting days he had been given the name of the Sharpshooter and in his prosperity it clung to him. "Forget that he's entered, eh?" repeated O'Connor. "Elisha Elisha I don't seem to place that horse." "His name used to be Silver Star," said the Sharpshooter. "That dog?" said O'Connor, disgustedly. "Let's see; wasn't he at Butte last season?" "Yes. Cricket Caley owned him."
"I reckon he's all shot up if my eyes didn't fool me." "Where is he?" yelled Colter. "Jim he's layin' up in the bushes round thet bluff. I didn't wait to see how he was hurt. But he shore stopped some lead. An' he flopped like a chicken with its haid cut off." "Where's Antonio?" "He run like the greaser he is," declared Springer, disgustedly. "Ahuh!
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