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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Not while I was around." "Yes," persisted the other, "but what was they after." "Oh, an extry pair of boots, and a shirt, and some tobacco, et cetery," replied Buck Barry contemptuously. "Let's see them," shouted several voices. After a moment's delay two ragged and furtive Mexicans were dragged before the assembly. A contemplative silence ensued.
I made a dollar extry this mornin' that's all the' is about it," and stuffing his hands into his pockets he marched off to avoid further comment. For the next week Tode "lived high" as he expressed it. He had from three to six meals a day and an unlimited amount of pie and peanuts besides, but after all he was not particularly happy.
She's more'n extry down on me just now, and if I breathe that Mabel Colton's name she hops right up in the air. How'd I know that askin' if a woman who's been sick in bed six year or more was 'in' meant could she have folks come to see her?" Mother would have discussed the Coltons with me frequently, but I avoided the subject as much as possible.
I was in for comin' down here to receive you really I was but my missus says she ain't a-goin' to have me rovin' 'round the country that 'ay agin. 'Gimme an extry oar, I says. And she says: 'Does you 'spose I'll let you run 'round lookin' like a load of wood? And I says " The gate latch clicked. Again Tim appeared from the maze of corn and stood shading his eyes and gazing toward the house.
Then a stock o' provisions. To make it easier, I'll tell yuh this much: they was the kind o' provisions people take on yachts, an' he even admitted to the salesman they was for that purpose. And then South Street the wharves; does that mean ships? Does the whole business mean a voyage? But a man don't have to stock up extry food if he's goin' by any regular steamer line, does he? What fur, then?
"Ah, that looks like the pie mother used to make," Ida said, as the landlady put it down. "Waal, I'd know. Seems to me the crust is a leetle too short. I've ben havin' pretty good luck lately; but this pumpkin weren't just the very best. It was one of them thin-rinded ones, you know. Pumpkins weren't extry good; weren't thunder enough, I reckon, this summer."
'You look good enough in anything that's respectable, I said. 'Kind o' wanted to look a leetle extry good, as ye might say, said Uncle Eb, groping in his big carpet-bag. 'Hope, she's terrible proud, an' if they should hev a leetle fiddlin' an' dancin' some night we'd want t' be as stylish as any on em. B'lieve I'll go'n git me a spang, bran' new suit, anyway, 'fore we go up t' Fuller's.
I know New York of old, and it's a lonesome place for a poor lad. I send you the week's wages due you, and an extry five to come back with in case your dreams don't come true. I've got over my mad, my boy, and I'll be glad to see you. Run over annyhow; it's a dull place without you. The mother misses you bad. Come Saturday if you can; I've got a business proposition I want to make.
'Can't be bovvered, retorted that worthy, as he squirmed into his jacket like an eel, and darted past her. 'I'm as hungry as Wobinson Crusoe, an' I'm goin' to tell mar how you're loiterin'. She followed him sadly. She had forgotten to say her own. 'Fifteen minutes late, said Mrs Harding severely, as she entered the kitchen. 'You'll hev to be extry spry to make up.
In the long run, same as I said to start with, all tough towns gets to where it's needed to have a clean-up. Shooting-scrapes is a habit that grows; and after a while decent folks begins to be sort of sick of such doings and of having things all upside-downey generally and then something a little extry happens, bringing matters to a head, and the white men take hold and the toughs is fired.
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