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Waal, I think we have shook them off at last any how. I suppose there ain't, no other road they can come up here by, chief?" "Leaping Horse only heard of one trail." "You may bet your life there ain't another," Harry remarked. "They would never have used such a dog-goned road as this if there had been any other way of going up." "Camp here," the chief said. "Long journey over pass, too much cold.
"It is mighty lucky they did not come down on us while we were washing, for they could have wiped us all out before we had time to get hold of our guns. Well, Harry, we are in a pretty tight fix, with fifty of them up the valley and five-and-twenty or so on each side of us. We shall have to be dog-goned smart if we are to get out of this scrape."
"Nels, your left eye has sprung a limp." "Why, you dog-goned old fule, you cain't hit thet bawl." Nels essayed again, only to meet ignominious failure. Then carefully he gathered himself together, gaged distance, balanced the club, swung cautiously. And the head of the club made a beautiful curve round the ball. "Shore it's jest thet crooked club," he declared.
The chief nodded his head gravely, and then, as if the matter were settled and no more need be said about it, he turned to Jerry: "Which way is my white friend going?" "I'm dog-goned if I know. I had reckoned to go down past Utah, and to go out prospecting among the hills, say a hundred miles farther west; then while I journeyed along with Tom I got mixed in my mind.
"What kind of juice runs in your arteries, anyhow? Red blood or buttermilk? Is your soul so dog-goned dead, crushed under the weight of dollars, that you have failed to realize this document is destined to go down in history side by side with Lincoln's Gettysburg speech? I'll bet you don't know the Gettysburg speech. Bet you never heard of it!" "Oh, nonsense, Mr. Ricks," Skinner retorted suavely.
"You were pretty cute about his jacket," Stanton remarked. "That was easy enough. The thing was too big for him and newer than his trousers. Soon as I noticed it, I knew I'd dropped on to something worth following up." "I can't see what you made of it, and you haven't told me yet." "I was too dog-goned cold and tired to talk; wanted to make the post and get to sleep.
Some of these gents that allow they're hard citizens ain't so dog-goned much. I s'pose they figure on us peaceable farmers bein' bluffed out by a hard face and a hostile talk. That's an awful bad bet for 'em to make." They were approaching a region of broken ground, carved and ridged with coulées and low hills, worthless save for range purposes. There Casey decided that he would turn back.
To show them manners, I said, 'How are you? and I went to bow, but chaw my last tobacco if I could, my breeches was so tight the heat way back in the canyon had shrunk them. They were too polite to notice it, and I felt for my knife to rip the dog-goned things, but recollecting the scalp-taker was stolen, I straightens up and bowed my head.
If they were to track us here they would never try to fight their way in, but would just set a guard at the mouth and at the upper end and starve us out. It is a good place to hide in, but a dog-goned bad one to be caught in. However, I hope it ain't coming to that. It is we who are going to attack them, and not them us, and that makes all the difference.
Crown started forward in his chair, eyes popped. He was indignant and surprised. "Is that what they're saying?" he demanded. "Naturally," she said, and with the one word laid it down as an impossibility that "they" could have said anything else. "That's what the reporters tell me." "Well, I'll be dog-goned!" The knuckle-like chin dropped. "They're saying that, are they?"
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