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She heard the shot, and she swore that it come from Ransom's side o' the fence. And she knows and we know that there isn't a man 'twixt Maine and Californy with a grudge agen Jake, always exceptin' this yere Ransom." "That's so," growled the Court. "Boys, Jake was murdered with a bullet of small bore not with a bullet outer a Winchester, sech as most of us carry.
Whereby I had a bin starvin, and pinchin, and scrapin, and coilin, and moilin; in heat and in cold; up a early and down a late; a called here and a sent there; a bidden and a chidden, and a forbidden to boot; every body's slave forsooth; whereby I am now my own master. Why not? Who can gain say it? Mayhap a savin and exceptin of your onnurable onnur; witch is as it may be. For why?
"I have a suspicion of it, but are you afraid to trust me?" "You ought to know better than to ask that." "Go ahead then and give me the partic'lars." "In the first place then, the lieutenant is young and good looking." "Unfortinitly there can't be any doubt of that." "Nellie Dawson has never seen a handsome young man " "Exceptin' you and me, and we ain't as young as we once was."
Humph! to tell me that when I never taken a drop, exceptin' for chills, in my life which he knows so as well as me!" The two masters began to ascend a stair. "Mais, he is a sassy; I would sell him, me," said the young Creole. "No, I wouldn't do that," replied the parson; "though there is people in Bethesdy who says he is a rascal. He's a powerful smart fool.
For when as a man has a nothink to fear of nobody, I am of a mind that a may pen his thofts to any man. Why not? Always a savin and exceptin your onnurable onnur. And ast for a man's a portin himself, there be times and seasons for all thinks. Whereof as Friar Bacon said to Friar Bungy and of the Brazen-head, A time was A time is And a time is past.
"Every night in the year, Nancy, exceptin' Sundays; and what was more, the horse along with him for he used to come ridin' at midnight upon the same garran; and it was no matther what place or company the other 'ud be in, the ould Square would come reglarly, and crave him for what he owed him."
But I reckon the boys will stay, exceptin', mebbe, Wils. An' it'll be jest as well fer him to leave." "It's not good business to send away your best cowboy. I've heard you complain lately of lack of men." "I sure do need men," replied Belllounds, seriously. "Stock gettin' more 'n we can handle. I sent word over the range to Meeker, hopin' to get some men there.
It's my opinion the young feller's at the bottom of it, they say his father's well off; 't enny rate, it's fixed, an' you're better off 'n you wuz, exceptin', uv course, your affliction, an' that can't be helped." The man composed his voice very much as he would have straightened a corpse in which he had no personal interest. "I'm in fer shuttin' up."
The consequence was that when all the hawsers had been let go exceptin' the quarter rope which I was tendin' to the Cap'n, Mr Saint Leger, and about half a dozen more was still on the wharf while an off-shore wind happenin' to be blowin' at the time the ship's head had paid off until 'twas pointing out to sea, while there was about a couple o' fathoms of space atween the ship's quarter and the wharf.
I felt that these wuz extraordinary preparations, but didn't begrech 'em, part on 'em wuz on Faith's account. Well, as I say, the preparations wuz all completed the day before exceptin' the coffee and creamed potatoes, and them wuz accomplised early in the mornin' while I wuz gittin' breakfast, and we all sot off triumphant at nine A.M. It wuz a clear cool mornin' in lovely autumn.
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