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"He'll come back fast enough," asserted the perpetrator of the "joke." "It's thirty dry and dusty miles to the water-hole ranch. When he gets a look at how far it is to-morrow mornin' he'll sure back into the fence and come flyin' for Antelope with reins draggin'. Set 'em up again, Joe." Owing to his unaccustomed potations Sundown was perhaps a trifle over-zealous in taking the road at night.
I felt you touchin' me draggin' me. There was someone else here, too. Who was it?" "The doctor and Dakota." "Where's Dakota now?" "At his cabin, I suppose. He didn't stay here long he left right after he brought the doctor. I imagine you know why he didn't stay. He was afraid that you would recognize him and accuse him." "Accuse him of what, ma'am?" "Of shooting you." He smiled.
"And you with your suit-case all packed too," says I. "How provokin'! But they're apt to change their minds, you know." "Do you mean," says he, "that er ah " "Something like that," I breaks in. "Anyway, you can judge. For, the fact is, some busybody has been gossipin' about your little trick of bawlin' out Alicia over the coffee and rolls and draggin' her round by the hair." "Wha-a-at?" he gasps.
I bear no grudge, and I'll let ye pay, Bailie." And the figure had the Bailie almost at the door of the refreshment-room before he could make a stand. "Mair than I can carry already, Bailie, did ye say? Gude forgie ye. I wonder ye're not black ashamed to say sic a word, and me draggin' ye along the platform and holdin' ye up, juist to cover yir character.
The money-lender had visited the High Cliff premises but once during the summer and then Miss Howes was providentially absent. "No, no!" declared Mrs. Barnes, hastily. "You shan't do any such thing. The idea! I guess I can 'tend to borrowin' money from my own relation without draggin' other folks into it. I'll drive over and see him pretty soon." "You must go at once.
Instead of the dark forest, forty rods away, marking the end of everything, I need not entirely despair until the girl reached the Scioto. "They've hitched a rope to Dale an' are draggin' him to the woods. The damn fool ain't dead yet. Black Hoof fetched him a crack with the flat of his ax, but they'll roast him to a frizzle by 'n' by if our medicine don't fetch him out of it."
I'd sort of been workin' myself up to the sacrifice, for you know Marjorie's some hefty partner for anybody not in trainin' to steer around a ballroom floor; but I'd figured out that the longer I put it off the worse it would be. So off I trails with my heels draggin' a little heavy. "Why, thanks ever so much, Torchy," says she, "but I think I have a partner for the first four or five.
'Then that means, said Owen, 'that means that the wages the people in division four receive is not equivalent to the work they do. 'Wotcher mean, equivalent? cried Crass. 'Why the 'ell don't yer talk plain English without draggin' in a lot of long words wot nobody can't understand? 'I mean this, replied Owen, speaking very slowly. 'Everything is produced by the people in number four.
"I see nothing to puzzle, for a man placed as you be," said Obed, drawing hard on his pipe. "If you had a father and a mother, now, both draggin' hard on your coat-tails My God!" he broke off, staring at the sappers moving on the hillside. "What wouldn't I give to be like any o' those?" "If you feel it like that," Seth encouraged him, "the way's plain, surely?
I made such a meal as a hungry man makes when he's out all alone fishin' and huntin' about these waters, and started off across the lake, with my trollin' line to the length of a hundred feet or more, draggin' through the water behind me.
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