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Will yer? Are yer a bloomin' kid?" He trembled with alarm and rage, "Tell yer gran'mother! Yer afeard! Who's yer ter be afeard more'n any one?" His passionate sense of his own importance ran away with a last remnant of caution. "Tell an' be damned! Tell, if yer can!" he cried. "I've been treated worser'n a dorg by your blooming back-lickers. They 'as set me on, only to turn aginst me.
There was the sound of a gentle chuckle from the glacis where Learoyd lay. ''E expects to get 'is C'mission some day, explained Ortheris; Gawd 'elp the Mess that 'ave to put their 'ands into the same kiddy as 'im! Wot time d'you make it, Sir? Fower! Mulvaney'll be out in 'arf an hour. You don't want to buy a dorg, Sir, do you? A pup you can trust 'arf Rampore by the Colonel's grey-'ound.
I can't stand anyone interferin' with them. If you kick my dorg, or go after my gin, then you rouse all the monkey in me. Those two do all my cattle work. Come here, Maggie," he called, and the slight "boy" walked over with a graceful, easy swing. "This is new feller?" he said, introducing Carew, who bowed gracefully. "He b'long Sydney. You think him plenty nice feller, eh?"
As we did not have a large bunch of beeves to brand that day, the wagon did not come over and we branded them at a single shift. It was nearly one o'clock when we finished, and instead of going in to Los Lobos, we left the third guard, Wayne Outcault, "Dorg" Seay, and Owen Ubery, to graze the cattle over to our camp.
I called him. He came to the step, his tongue hanging out, his stumpy tail wagging. "What'll you have, girls?" he seemed to say. "Get in here! Come up, Jack!" I coaxed, patting the seat invitingly. Jack put one paw on the step, and wagged his tail harder. Old Amos's shoulders shook. "Don' reckon you all will git dat dorg into de kerredge, Miss Faith," he said. "Look lake he smell a trick."
Archie was cursing by both note and rhyme, and had managed to unearth a knife and was trying to cut the lassos which fettered himself and horse, when Dorg Seay rode in and rapped him over the knuckles with a six-shooter, saying, "Don't do that, sweetheart; those ropes cost thirty-five cents apiece."
Years of the intimate remoteness of a counter leave their mark upon a man. It was an adventure for him to take one of the Young Ladies of the establishment to church on a Sunday. Few modern young men could have merited less the epithet "Dorg." But I have thought at times that his machine may have had something of the blade in its metal. Decidedly it was a machine with a past. Mr.
M'Adam drew back, the better to scan his would-be benefactor; his lower jaw dropped, and he eyed the stranger with a drolly sarcastic air. "A poun', man! A pouxi' for yon noble dorg!" he pointed a crooked forefinger at the little creature, whose scowling mask peered from beneath the chair. "Man, I couldna do it. Na, na; ma conscience wadna permit me. 'Twad be fair robbin' ye.
"Yer pappy says as how I can't marry ye," went on Lem, in the same whisper, "and I don't give a damn about that only, ye don't leave this scow to go to no hut! Ye stay here with me!" Fledra had wedged herself more tightly into the corner, hugging the snarling Snatchet closer. As she backed, the scowman came nearer, his hot breath flooding her face. "Put down that there dorg!" he hissed.
Me an' Krill became great mates, and I'd what you might call free quarters here yes, sir it's a frozen fact." "Very generous of Mr. Krill," remarked Hurd, dryly, and wondering what the man was keeping back. "Oh, he was right enough as a mate when not drunk; but the liquor made a howling dorg of him.
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