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Once I was to ride a shetland in the Grand Entry, but they had a monkey on another pony and I walked out on 'em." Davy picked up the reins and Frosty began tiptoeing around and arching his back. "Jist turn him loose, son," called Landy. "The old simpleton was expectin' some weight when ye got on, and he's disapp'inted." Landy led the way down the hill and Frosty followed like a pack horse.
I'd always had a notion that I'd be a plute some day; but honest, I wa'n't expectin' it so sudden. I was just tryin' to get used to it, when the door opens and in drifts that guy from the Marshal's office. "Where's Mr. Belmont Pepper?" says he. "Well," says I, "the last time I saw him he was headed west." "Skipped out!" says the gent, doin' the foiled villyun stunt with his face.
When they got nearly acrosst I shot the first redskin, and loadin' quick got a bullet into the others. The last Injun did not sink. I watched him go floatin' down stream expectin' every minute to see him go under as he was hurt so bad he could hardly keep his head above water. He floated down a long ways and the current carried him to a pile of driftwood which had lodged against a little island.
''E was transferred to a battery soon after an' I 'eard that when he got the orders all 'e 'ad to say was, "Thank 'Eaven. I'll mebbe get shelled oftener in a battery, but at least I'll 'ave the satisfaction o' shellin' back an' I may 'ave a funk-hole handy to duck in when it's extry hot, instead o' ridin' on the road an' expectin' to go off like a packet 'o crackers."
Law smiled slowly, and, setting his plate aside, selected a fresh cigarette; then as he reached for a coal he explained: "I haven't got what you'd exactly call an appointment. This feller I'm expectin' is a Mexican, and day before yesterday he killed a man over in Jim Wells County. They got me by 'phone at Hebbronville and told me he'd left.
So with feelin's of awe and wonder in their hearts, expectin' to see they knew not what, the awestruck, admirin' foreigner paused before the tomb of the Great Leader and he see nothin'. Not even a respectable grave-stun, such as you see in any New England graveyard.
"Is the President of the United States within?" He said he was, but said sunthin' about his not receiving calls in the mornings. But I says in a very polite way, for I like to put folks at their ease, presidents or peddlers or any thing, "It hain't no matter at all if he hain't dressed up of course he wuzn't expectin' company. Josiah don't dress up mornin's."
"'Name? says he, smiling again, 'Maybe it'll be familiar t' you. That is, it will if my wife is usin' it. Orme's my name Peter Orme. Know a lady of that name? Good. "I hadn't said I did, but those eyes of his had seen the look on my face. "'Friends in New York told me she was here, he says. 'Where is she now? Got her address? he says. "'She expectin' you? I asked.
"She'll have a fire all laid for him in the fore room," said the young man; "that's all we want. She'll be expectin' you, Joe; go in now, and they'll think nothin' of it, bein' Saturday night. Just you hurry, so they'll have time to light up." And Joe went. "Stop and have some talk with father," whispered Lizzie affectionately to her lover, as she came to meet him.
"They're some modester, though." "Why?" "They ain't expectin' that folks'll be lookin' at 'em." "Mr. Masters likes me to wear bright dresses." "Then do it, child. It's considerable of a pleasure to have his eyes pleased. Do you know what a husband you've got, Diana?" "Yes." "He's 'most like one o' them flowers himself.
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