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Updated: May 16, 2025
Ever since I was a small girl takin' books from the circulatin' libery, an' obliged to read out loud with divided sillerbles, I've drank in every word of the tales of lords and other nobles of high degree, that the little shops where I gen'rally got my books, an' some with the pages out at the most excitin' parts, contained.
She's turnin' more and more to religion and preachers as she gits older, like a lot of women do when they find they're not excitin' enough to interest the other kind. Now, John, be careful what you say. A man is like a kitten try to catch him and he'll run. Don't fling Sarah at his head it'd be like flingin' a bone at a cat; jest chase him away instead of drawin' him to her.
'Twus kind of a mean trick, imposin' on hospitality that-a-way; but 'twuz Bowney, you know. He hollered, an' I let him walk in front, but I kep' him covered with the revolver till I met some fellers, that tied him good an' tight. 'Twuzn't excitin' wurth a durn that is, ixcep' when his wife I s'pose 'twuz hollered, then I a'most wished I'd let him go."
"Why, I've had things happen to me shipwreck, you know winds a-blowin' and sousin' the deck and a-gettin' out the boats and yellin' and shoutin' Seems 's if it ought to 'a' been excitin'. But Lord! 'twa'n't nuthin' to what I've felt other times times when it was all still-like on the island here and big so's 't you kind o' hear suthin' comin' to ye over the water.
Was not that a suspicious speech? Did it not expose him utterly? "Nothin' to talk about here much more excitin' than a coyote's yap. Not a damn thing. Which way you come from?" "South. The last I heard of excitin' news was this stuff about Lanning, the outlaw." It was out, and he was glad of it. He had taken the bull by the horns. "Lanning? Lanning? Never heard of him.
When I came in, there they be, all sittin' in a circle round a table with a cigar box on it. They'd each put four bits into the box. That was the pot. "A stranger wouldn't 'a' made nothin' very excitin' out of that game, nor yet would 'a' caught on to what it were.
And say, after I'd read one of 'em I didn't see how it was we didn't have a crowd throwin' money at us. It was good readin', too, almost as excitin' as a nickel lib'ry. I'd never been right next to a gold mine before, and it got me bug eyed just thinkin' about it.
They ain't nothin' to take me anywheres. I've set two hours in the deadest game of draw nothing excitin', no hands, an' broke even. Played a rubber of cribbage with Skiff Mitchell for the drinks, an' now I'm that languid for somethin' doin' that I'm perambulatin' the streets on the chance of seein' a dogfight, or a argument, or somethin'." "I've got something better on hand," Smoke answered.
The trouble with Hobson is that he is now giving his best thought and energy to his own business." "I see," Drake said. "Well, that's accordin' to human nature, I reckon. They say Hobson speculates in grain an' cotton, an' when a feller gets to playin' a game as excitin' as that it is hard for 'im to get down to humdrum matters."
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