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We gave up our notion o' the Walker River, an' I began to laugh int' myself at the Mormon threat, that I should suffer from all the plagues o' Egypt, an' die an unknown man. We were rich rich rich. "Just as we were finishin' our day's work, Old Pancake rides up. He'd bin lookin' for a mustang that he'd lost, an' came gallopin' over the ridge, with his long legs brushin' the sage tops.
Once or twice I lay still for jest a second or two, an' then away I went agin, trailin' and bumpin' over the ground, as if I had been tied to the tail o' a gallopin' hoss. All the while there wur a yellin' in my ears as if all the cats an' dogs of creation were arter me. "Wal, it wur some time afore I compre'nded what all this rough usage meant. I did at last.
Because, if so, there's five gallopin' 'orses down at the wharf waitin' to be taken over to Henley-in-Arden." "Oh?" said the woman. "My 'usband left word Gustavus was to fetch 'em along if they arrived. But who sent you with the message?" "I've a friend in Gavel's business," Tilda answered with dignity.
She'd jest kep' that voter alive for years, and been head and hands for him, but she couldn't vote and he could." Everybody has seen hosses run off the track when they wuz goin' too fast; Josiah wuz so engaged in runnin' wimmen's pride down, he didn't realize where he wuz gallopin' to.
Robert was right in the middle of a heart-to-heart talk with a Pittsburg man, when five o'clock comes and the word is sent up that Louie has came. "Tell him to come back in about half an hour," says Mr. Robert to me. "Repeat at five-thirt'," says I, sliding out for the elevator. It was an elegant afternoon, for pneumonia, slush and rain and ice-box zephyrs gallopin' up and down the street.
All night long dey racked an' dey galloped, an' w'en dey got tired er rackin' an' gallopin', dey all close in on de ole toof an' thumped it an' gouged at it twel it 'peared unto me dat dey had got de jaw-bone loosened up, an' wuz tryin' fer ter fetch it up thoo de top er my head an' out at der back er my neck. An' dey got wuss nex' day.
'No! said his father. 'I did, said the son; and he proceeded to relate, in as few words as possible, how he had fallen a ready dupe to the stratagems of Job Trotter. Mr. Weller, senior, listened to the tale with the most profound attention, and, at its termination, said 'Worn't one o' these chaps slim and tall, with long hair, and the gift o' the gab wery gallopin'? Mr.
It was the fore part of March I'd been up to Fredericton a speculatin in a small matter of lumber, and was returnin to the city, a gallopin along on one of old Buntin's horses, on the ice, and all at one I missed my horse, he went right slap in and slid under the ice out of sight as quick as wink, and there I was a standin all alone.
"The young lady is SHE comfortable?" said Jeff, accepting his aunt's previous remark as confirmatory. "Ez well ez enny critter marked by the finger of the Lord with gallopin' consumption kin be, I reckon. And she, ez oughter be putting off airthly vanities, askin' for a lookin'-glass!
He bumped down on the thwart opposite the waterman, and thrust at the oars. "Row, man, row!" he urged. "The Gallopin Gent's got through." The colour of apple-blossom, coming and going in the lad's cheek, died away, and left him pale. He was a splendid stripling, sun in his hair, sun in his eyes; with something of the lank grace of the fawn about him.
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