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The Crows didn't attempt to cross in the teeth of our fire, however, being satisfied with what they'd done, and the horses safely brought our three comrades drippin' up the bank to where we lay takin' pot-shots at every bunch of feathers that approached the opposite bank. We got Barrett's arm into a sling, and, as Martin's hurt wasn't serious, we lost no time in gettin' away.
"'It's an infernal machine, an' it's blowed a hole in me back, the Britisher yelled; an' we who was lookin' on c'd certainly hear suthin' drippin' from th' bunk he'd just got out of. "'Owch! I'm blowed t' bits. I'm bein' murdered.
He got all them old fellers rhymed right into that book Jereboam, Rehoboam, Meschach, Schadrach, an' Abednego, an' all the whole caboodle, from Adam with an A to Zaccheus with a Z. "That certain was a moral tome, an' no prevarication. It was plumb drippin' with moral from start to finish. You see Eve she set the ball a-rollin' when she swiped them apples.
"'E's drippin' in the 'all," she gasped and handed Peter a very dirty bit of paper. Peter read: "Dear Boy, Being about to leave this country on an expedition of the utmost importance I feel that I must shake you by the hand before I go. Emilio Zanti." Mr.
An' I dreamed that little she-devil come up on you when you was asleep, took a big bread-knife, an' cut your head plumb off! Yessir, I could see her holdin' up that head o' yourn, an' the blood was drippin', an' she was a-laughin' " "SHUT UP!" Keith fairly yelled the words. His eyes blazed. His face was dead white. With a shrug of his huge shoulders and a sullen grunt Duggan went on.
I said my belly was as empty as a shot-off cartridge, and I said it good an' loud. I was mad. Then a big flash of lightning lit up the coach. Alan, it was her sittin' there with a box in her lap, facing me, drippin' wet, her eyes shining and she was smiling at me! Yessir, smiling." Stampede paused to let the shock sink in. He was not disappointed. Alan stared at him in amazement.
It sounds like rain." "Rain nothing," says I, rubbin' my eyes open. "Why, the moon's shining and but, it does sound like water drippin'." "Drippin!" says Vee. "It's just pouring down somewhere. But where, Torchy?" "Give it up," says I. "That is, unless it could be that blessed tank " "That's it!" says Vee. "The tank! But but just where is it?"
And good land! he loves her to that extent that it wouldn't make no difference to him if she didn't know enough to come in when it rained. He would fetch her in, drippin' and worship her, damp or dry. Wall, it wuz on the very day before we laid out to leave for home.
"At times he's as absurd as yourself." "He's not asked me," says Larry. "My tongue's drippin' with it," says I. "I had an own cousin come over from Kerrymull. You'll be welcome." "Done!" says Larry. "And for board and lodging I'll sing you Ballyshone after dinner." So he did too, and if you've ever heard it well sung, you'll know the lump I had in my throat as I listened.
An' there I was with the spring drippin' all about me, the plains standin' beckonin' to me on every side, just coaxin' to be rode over, an' me walkin' on foot with flat-heeled boots on! I had rode out on Sam Cutler's freighter to within' twenty miles o' the ranch house, an' I built a little fire an' unrolled my blankets; but I couldn't sleep.
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