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And there were a number of ways of being very fit; such as holding an accurate gun or an even temper, being blessed with industry or a vital-tearing ambition, knowing the game thoroughly or understanding the great American expedient of bluff. In any case the man who survived must see his end clearly through that end's means.
An' ol' man Packard, after I was blind I went to him an' he promised I could stick as long as I just obeyed orders. Which, I've done, no matter what they was. "But the end's come now; ain't it, Steve, ol' pardner?
At the foot of this range was grass in plenty, and, occasionally, a water hole, made possible by the fact that End's father had brought the waters of the Pocut River to the valley by means of the tunnel flume. "The trail's plain enough for a blind man to follow," said Yellin' Kid, who rode beside Snake. "But it's going to get harder in a little while," spoke Snake.
Jo Gordineer interrupted. "Say, Shon, when'll you be through that tobogan ride of yours? Aint there any end to it?" But Shon was looking with both eyes now at the collaborators, and he sang softly on: "And it's keen as the frost when the summer-time dies, That we rode to the glen and with never a fear." Then he added: "The end's cut off, Joey, me boy; but what's a tobogan ride, annyway?"
"But we must win in the end," said Betty, desperately; "we have sacrificed so much, how can it all be lost?" "That's what Mr. Lightfoot says we'll win in the end, but the end's a long way off. By the way, did you know that Car'line had run off after the Yankees? When I think how that girl had been spoiled!" "Oh, I wish they'd all go," returned Betty.
His evil star continued in the ascendant. About a week afterwards, he discovered a heavy deficit in his cash book, kept by Santi Priya, which that rascal failed to explain, and next day the trusty manager did not attend office. Indeed he has never been heard of since. All's Well That End's Well.
He looked like the reincarnation of all the mourners who had ever followed a hearse. "He is worse," he said in a sepulchral voice. "The end's not far off. You had better come up and see him." In the sick chamber they found already assembled Miss Walkingshaw, Mrs. Of this pair, Maggie, the eldest of them all, had long been coupled with Andrew as the two greatest credits to the family.
Well, upon my soul, there is a rum start anyway." "What does the message say?" the passenger inquired, with intense surprise. "Say? Well, there's what I make it out," the captain answered, handing him the scrap of paper on which he had jotted down the letters. "I missed the beginning, but the end's all right. Look alive there, boys, will you. Bring out the Winchester. Take cutlasses, all hands.
"What could be greater?" Dickie asked, and both the creatures looked very pleased. "An' so should be an' so should be," said the Mouldy shortly. "All's for the best, and the end's to come. Where'd ye want to go, my lord?" "I'm not 'my lord'; I'm only Richard Arden," said Dickie, "and I want to go back to Mr. Beale and stay with him for seven months, and then to find my cousins."
So the grand old horse was passed over to me to be numbered among the staunchest and truest of friends. "Oh, well," Mac said in good-bye. "All's well that end's well," and he pointed to Nellie, safely stowed away in a grove of dogs that half filled the back of the buck-board. But all had not ended for us.
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