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They talked of his bein' fond of a extry glass now an' then, but niver nothin' like what he's come to since. An' it's head-piece you must look for in a lawyer, Mr. Tryan, it's head-piece. His wife, too, was al'ys an uncommon favourite o' mine poor thing! I hear sad stories about her now. But she's druv to it, she's druv to it, Mr. Tryan.
"A Henderson grant!" cried the Major; "'tis so much worthless paper." "I reckon it's good enough fer me," answered Tom. "It come from those who blazed their way out here and druv the redskins off. I don't know nothin' about this newfangled law, but 'tis a queer thing to my thinkin' if them that fit fer a place ain't got the fust right to it."
"So I should think! you look like the sort of man who has tramped everywhere, and done everything." "You're about right there, for a wonder! I've druv cattle in Mexico; I've been out with a gang that went to find an overland road to the North Pole; I've worked through a season or two in catching wild horses on the Pampas; and another season or two in digging gold in California.
Them cattle druv by my lad Nim are the finest in the township, I reckon. 'Indeed! quoth Mr. Wynn, who just knew an ox from an ass. ''Tain't a losin' game to keep a store in the bush, ef you be a smart man, observed Zack, with a leer, after a few minutes' devotion to the contents of his tin plate.
It was up out of their beds they were this morning at six o'clock, when you'd think the likes of them would be asleep." "I seen them," said Kinsella. "And the one of them is as bad as the other. You'd be hard put to it to say whether it was Priscilla has put the comether on the young fellow or him that had her druv' on to be doing what it would be better for her to leave alone."
I'm one of the hair-hung and breeze-shaken majority. I should most probably have punched his head." "Well, that's jest what I did. I says, says I, 'Jim, whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and jest at this time present, I'm the instrument. And when the dust got settled down, Jim he druv' home with that ther' piebald, allowin' he wasn't such an all-fired bad hawss after all.
"Yes," answered Mrs. Yellett, reflectively, "Leander’s mouth do run about eight and a half octaves. Sometimes I don’t blame his wife for bangin’ down the lid." They talked of Jim Rodney’s troubles, and the growing hatred between sheep and cattle men, because of range rights. "Now that pore Jim had a heap of good citizen in him, before that pestiferous cattle outfit druv’ his sheep over the cliff.
The driver was assisted down from his elevated position, and got off the coach and came up to them. "That's the first speech I ever made, young gentlemen, and, if I know myself, it will be the last; but, you see, I was druv to it. You're a good sort, that's certain. What will you drink?"
"Can you tell the spot where you found me?" he said to the man as they started on. "I'd like to go back there to-morrow and find my cushions." "Wal," was the answer, "as I've druv over this road twice a day for nigh onto thirty year, I'm tolerable familiar with it. My name's Terry, an' I'm keeper o' the light at the Cape, an' carry the mail to sorter piece out on. Who might ye be?"
Theres old Hector patting with affection a tall hound of black and yellow spots, with white belly and legs, that just then came in on the scent, accompanied by the slut he had mentioned; see where the wolves bit his throat, the night I druv them from the venison that was smoking on the chimney top that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread,
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