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To this he replied: "By gol, I'll be gosh durn glad to sell all I have fer just what they cost me." "How much would that be?" "One dollar and fifty cents per dozen," he answered. "How many have you?" "Twenty dozen." I took the one he was showing me and putting it into my pocket, started out.
For fashion's sake, I was about to utter the usual formula, "Mr Holt, I presume?" but the opportunity was not allowed me. No sooner had the squatter appeared in his doorway, than he followed up his blasphemous interrogatory with a series of others, couched in language equally rude. "What's all this muss about? Durn yur stinkin' imperence, who air ye? an' what air ye arter?"
"Pap's so po' he cain't run me no mo', so I want to git a show somers if I kin, 'taint no diffunce what I'm strong and hearty, and I don't turn my back on no kind of work, hard nur soft." "Do you think you would like to learn the printing business?" "Well, I don't re'ly k'yer a durn what I DO learn, so's I git a chance fur to make my way. I'd jist as soon learn print'n's anything."
"Dey dond't like de hard vork, Cabtin. . . . Dey dond't like it but ve takes der Coop, all de same! Dey pulls goot und strong, oder" he rasped a short sentence in rapid Low German "Shermans dond't be beat by no durn lime-juicer, nein!" Old Burke grinned. "Cocky as ever, Captain Schenke! Bedad now, since ye had the luck of ye're last passage there's no limit to ye!" "Luck! Luck!
"Darnationed likely squaw!" remarked one. "Who air she, old timber-toes?" inquired he, addressing himself to the guide. "Squaw Utah gal," replied the Mexican in his trapper patois. Pointing to me, he continued: "She sister to hunter-chief she hunter too kill bighorn, buffalo, deer. Carrambo! si! She grand cazadora!" "Oh! durn yer kezedora.
The giant smiled uneasily: "I'm keepin' out o' the sun an' a-takin' keer o' my health," he said, and his eyes dropped hungrily to the corn pone and fried fish, but the boy shook his head sturdily. "You can't git nothin' to eat from me, Babe Honeycutt." "Now, looky hyeh, Jason " "Not a durn bite," said the boy firmly, "even if you air my mammy's brother.
It was entirely unfurnished, except for a mattress lying on the floor, and Stamps was stretched upon it, coughing and feverish. "Come in," he said. "I knowed ye'd be here purty soon. Thar ain't no chair to ax ye to set down in." "I do not want to sit," said Latimer. "You are ill. You caught cold last night." "I s'pose I did, durn it," answered Stamps.
"'T is the first I've heard of it," averred Mr. Meredith, incredulously yet thoughtfully. "I tell you that Brereton is a sly, sneaky fellow, as needs watching in more than one matter. Nigh ten months ago I showed him how he could nab old Hennion, so that like as not he'd have gone to the gallows, but he did n't stir a finger, durn him! Oh, here 's Si, now. Say, I want you to treat Mr.
I've set my mind on having that affair come off to-morrow, gol durn it, and I'm going to have a parson if I have to dangle down to the Junction on that old machine of yours, myself." A few added words of luridly picturesque intent gave force and colour to this declaration. The stranger on the cracker-box rose weakly and drew near.
Well, sir, that durn fool tenderfoot, that Pard Huff, had told them a fool yarn about the Apaches surprisin' our camp and killin' everybody but him, and they was sure buffaloed!" "Yes," I said, "I know they were." "You! How did you know anything about it?" "Oh, I was there that night. I passed through on the train, and Separ and Deming were the worst scared towns I ever saw."
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