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They were not a very inspiring lot. They were of no special breed, but just chickens a long-legged, roostery set, with a mixture of frazzled hens of years and experience. We said, however, that food and care would improve them. Remember what it had done for Mis' Cow.
It was a treat to see her handle the ribbons. Mary asked some trifling question about the children and it elicited the information that one of the girls was named Cacta. "Yes," she said, "I like new names for children, not old ones that is all frazzled out and folks has suffered an’ died to. It seems to start ’em fair, like playin’ cards with a new deck.
"You look frazzled out, if you don't mind my saying so." "I feel frazzled out; that's what I mind." "Suppose you come out with me to-night as soon as I report to the desk," suggested the other. Banneker, refreshed by the tingling drink, looked down at him in surprise. "Where?" he asked. "I've got a little boat out here in the East River." "A boat? Lord, that sounds good!" sighed Banneker.
A sheaf of scraggly, black hair leaked out of a battered, old, slouch hat, like stuffing from an ancient Colonial sofa, and an evil-smelling cigar butt, very much frazzled, protruded from the corner of his mouth. He had a very sinister appearance. He was a man I had known around the Nevada mining camps several years before, and his name was Samuel L. Clemens."
And when Molly Culpepper dear little Molly Culpepper came after the bride, blushing through her powder, and looking straight at the floor for fear her eyes would wander after her heart and wondering if the people knew it was of no consequence that John Barclay's voice frazzled on "F"; for if the town wished to notice a man at that wedding, there was Watts McHurdie in a paper collar, with a white embroidered bow tie and the first starched shirt the town had ever seen him wear, badly out of step with the procession, while the best man dragged him like an unwilling victim to the altar; and of course there was the best man, and a handsome best man as men go, fair-skinned, light-haired, blue-eyed, with a good glow on his immobile face and rather sad eyes that, being in a man's head, went boldly where they chose and where all the women in the town could see them go.
"Don't you see? this is the same old original mule. He ain't never been buried at all. They've been stealing your animals pretending they died, and using this one over and over as proof!" This proved to be the case; but John Gates was clever enough never to tell how he surmised the truth. "That mule looked to me pretty frazzled," was all he would say.
Odin saw a few white-headed ones. And once he saw a captain stop to lash a worn, gray-haired Bron who must have been one of the original prisoners. The poor fellow looked so old and frazzled that Odin could not recognize him. His heart grew heavy as he thought of those prisoners. They had done no harm. Their lives had been wasted away because of their loyalty to Maya.
"I didn't know what this joint was like or I'd never have brought you," apologized Clarendon. "A friend of mine told me about it. He's got a queer fancy if he likes this frazzled dive." Clay acquitted Bromfield of conspiracy. He must have been tailed here by Durand's men. His host had nothing to do with it. What for? They could not openly attack him. "Slim" Jim's eyes fell on him. He nudged Dave.
Maybe that accounts for Miss Bray. She is fifty-three years old, and all frazzled out and done up with adjuncts. But Dr. Rudd, being a man with not even usual sense, and awful conceited, don't see what we see, and swallows easy. Men are funny funny as some women. I don't think he's ever thought of courting Miss Bray. But she's thought of it, and for once we truly tried to help her.
But grimly instead, out of his frazzled nerves, out of his innate spiritual bashfulness, he merely roared forth, "Where are the potatoes?" "Potatoes?" gasped the White Linen Nurse. "Potatoes? Oh, potatoes?" she finished more blithely. "Why, yes, of course! Don't you remember you didn't have time to peel them for me? I was so disappointed!" "You were so disappointed?" snapped the Senior Surgeon.
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