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Updated: June 13, 2025
They had no fear of the mighty forests, when more than two hundred pairs of strong arms fenced them about. "That is shorely a pleasant sight," said Dick Salter. "I've seed the same many evenin's, an' I hope to see it many more evenin's. We'll get 'em through, Mr. Poe, we'll get 'em through!" "I hope so," said Daniel Poe earnestly.
"Do you care partic'larly where you set, nights, Ossian?" inquired Mrs. Popham, who was now in a state of uncontrolled energy bordering on delirium. "Because your rockin' chair has a Turkey red cushion and it would look splendid in Mr. Thurston's room. You know you fiddle 'bout half the time evenin's, and you always go to bed early."
"You might learn it in the evening!" suggested Hilda. "I can't keep awake evenin's," said the boy, simply. "Hev to be up at four o'clock to let the cows out, an' I git sleepy, come night. An' I like it here too," he added. "I can l'arn 'em easier, weedin'; take ten weeds to a word." "Ten weeds to a word?" repeated Hilda. "I don't understand you." I don't count chickweed.
I'd worked up a fifteen-minute spiel too that was a gem of street corner eloquence, and no matter where I stuck up my flare I could do an evenin's business runnin' from ten to forty dollars. "So when I hit them corn fritters of Mrs. Whipple's that night in Gopher I had no more notion of quittin' the road than a prairie chicken has of breakin' into a hencoop.
I can't do it!" But she winced, and drew in her breath; poor Nathaniel! Niles to marry them. "An' you fetch your bag along, Nathaniel, and we'll put the machine together, evenin's," she said. "Yes, kind woman," he answered, joyously. "Oh, what a weight you have taken from my soul!" His half-blind eyes were luminous with belief.
Long an' patient the other cowboys tried to beat them two game legs, an' hevn't done it. Mebbe if Monty an' Link was perfectly sound in their legs like the other cowboys there wouldn't hev been such a holler. But no sound cowboys'll ever stand for a disgrace like that. Why, down at the bunks in the evenin's it's some mortifyin' the way Monty an' Link crow over the rest of the outfit.
"You know him?" "Oh! yass, sah; Mawse Honoré knows me, yass. All de gen'lemens knows me. I sell de calas; mawnin's sell calas, evenin's sell zinzer-cake. "Dat me w'at pass in rue Royale ev'y mawnin' holl'in' 'Bé calas touts chauds, an' singin'; don't you know?"
With the crack of that Sharp's of his, the ghost sets up sech a screech it proves he ain't white an' also that he'll live through the evenin's events. As the spectre yelps, the bloo cayouse goes over on its head an' neck an' then falls dead on its side. The lead which only smashes the spectre's knee to splinters goes plumb through the pony's heart.
They sort of make company for a man in the winter evenin's, and keep his thoughts in cheerful directions." "Your sentiments do honor to your nature," responded the other, "and I am glad to meet with one of your age, who, having lived among the beauties of Nature, has not allowed them to become commonplace and unworthy of notice. Many in the cities show less refinement."
"An' what have ye been doin' all these long days without me?" He raised the littered sheets of his manuscript and showed them to her. "This." She looked up proudly at her father. "It looks wondherful, father." "I'll rade it to you in the long evenin's now we're together again." "Do, father." "And we won't separate any more, Peg, will we?" "We wouldn't have this time but for you, father."
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