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Updated: June 13, 2025
I've got so much to think about right now that I just stand turning round and round." "Yes, you do feel that way in a new place, sometimes," Smith allowed. "Well, I guess I'll have to be goin' on down to the store. Business is pickin' up so fast I'll have to keep open all the time, not only evenin's like I have been doin'." "I'm glad to hear it," said she.
Do you remember when we began to wind it up, Saturday nights, 'together? All this is the same, praise be, but " "Yes?" asked Howard Gray again. "For years, evenin's," went on Mrs. Gray, "this room was full of kids. There was generally a baby sleepin' or refusin', rather loud, to sleep! in the cradle over in the corner.
Silas Peckham, "Miss Darley, she's pooty much took up with the school. She's an industris young. woman, yis, she is industris, but perhaps she a'n't quite so spry a worker as some. Maybe, considerin' she's paid for her time, she is n't fur out o' the way in occoopyin' herself evenin's, that is, if so be she a'n't smart enough to finish up all her work in the daytime.
Some of them used to come way up from Los Angeles just to try out a new car along our road with the Honk-honks for pace-makers. We charged them a little somethin', and then, too, we opened up the road-house and the bar, so we did purty well. It wasn't necessary to work any longer at that bogus placer. Evenin's we sat around outside and swapped yarns, and I bragged on my chickens.
Course, that programme meant sendin' regrets to most of the invites he got, and spendin' his evenin's where it didn't cost much to get in or out. One frivolous way he had of killin' time was by teachin' 'rithmetic to a class of new landed Zinskis at a settlement house over on the East Side. "Ah, what's the use?" I used to tell him.
"An' I reckon, too," he went on deliberately, and there was a wicked fleer of sarcasm tinging the words, "I reckon I'll hev to kinda apologize to you gentlemen for interruptin' your evenin's entertainment, as you might say.
"Cap'n Hedge," she said, "as I'm here on what you might call a bus'ness errand, and as I've been waitin' pretty nigh two hours already, p'raps we'd better talk about somethin' besides fine evenin's. I've got to be lookin' up a hotel or boardin' house or somewheres to stay to-night, and I can't wait much longer. I jedge you got my letter and was expectin' me.
Three evenin's later while you were workin' on them mill samples, I thought I'd like to see the whole of the line. I took a walk. There's been a real good horse trail worked into the ground up there, ain't there? And it's a new trail, too. Seems as if somebody must have been riding up and down that way every day for just about two weeks.
"Zeke's home agen." "Yes; he was up here two evenin's ago." "He was here yesterday; he'll be here again to-day. He comes here too often. I've got a telescope, John Penaluna, and I sees what's goin' on. What's more, I guess what'll come of it. So I warn 'ee as a friend, of course." John stared down at the polished steel teeth of his pitchfork, glinting under the noonday sun.
Got a ranch of me own that I was tellin' you about. You ought to see it! Some class! But it's mighty lonely, evenin's." Anita sighed and glanced at Sundown. Then her gaze dwelt on the bud she held. "Si, Señor it is lonely in the evenings," she said, and although she spoke in Spanish, Sundown did not misunderstand. He grinned hugely.
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