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Miss Grosvenor and Ernest continued to chat with such apparent enjoyment that Dawn said pointedly "Pooh! there's no art in pulling a boat; any galoot with a little brute force can do that," a remark having the desired effect, for the young Breslaw feigned not to hear, his face rivalled the colour of "Dora's," and his remarks grew absent.
We didn't exactly expect to have ye this trip, sir," said the mate. "Well, I'm here, ain't I? Sing out, can't you see me? Has your hair struck in and tickled your brain so you don't know who's boss aboard here? Who's this galoot you've just kept from being ripped to ribbons? I'll settle matters with you later on for meddling in this affair, you kelp-haired sea-pig.
He's an unaccountable, 'yporcritical skunk." Allowing himself to be persuaded, Mr. Jones returned to his seclusion. The secretary, however, remained on the veranda for the purpose, he said, of seeing whether that Chink wasn't sneaking around; in which case he proposed to take a long shot at the galoot and chance the consequences.
Beside him was a younger man with rifle across his knees. Another man, young, tall, lean, dark, stood holding the coach door open. He touched his sombrero to the girls. His eyes were sharp as he addressed Dale. "Milt, wasn't you held up?" "No. But some long-haired galoot was tryin' to hold up the girls. Wanted to throw his gun on me. I was sure scared," replied Dale, as he deposited the luggage.
She'd let you know that a girl may be round an' soft an' innocent and a holy terror, too, when a big, blundering galoot of a dep'ty-sheriff talks o' loving somebody to whom he's never been introduced, and never likely to be, neither." Jeff looked up in amazement. "Why, Bud; why, sonny ye're real mad!
I chanced to have my back near the side-wall, and that's why I wasn't mobbed the cowardly crew couldn't get BEHIND me. They suspected that I'd make an angel of the first sanctified galoot who attempted to place his paws upon me, and none cared to draw on his celestial bank account.
When he did make oration, his words were these: "Say, Sam, there's been a description of a galoot miscallin' himself Bevel-edged Travels impairing the atmospheric air of Kingfisher for the past two weeks. You know who he was? He was not otherwise than Ben Tatum, from the Creek Nation, son of old Gopher Tatum that your Uncle Newt shot last February. You know what he done this morning?
You see, Sile Hawkins was no, it warn't Sile Hawkins, after all it was a galoot by the name of Filkins I disremember his first name; but he was a stump come into pra'r meeting drunk, one night, hooraying for Nixon, becuz he thought it was a primary; and old deacon Ferguson up and scooted him through the window and he lit on old Miss Jefferson's head, poor old filly.
But the galoot of the school spoilt the pathos of it all, for, during the awed silence which followed the calling of the girl's name, he suddenly brightened up the first time he was ever observed to do so during school hours and said, briskly and cheerfully "Dead sir!" He hadn't been able to answer a question correctly for several days.
"It may send our kind and thoughtful chief to the Pacific coast and give us whom?" "It will make one, at least," said Stone impetuously. "It'll send that galoot Petty back to his regiment right here in Nebraska and give him a taste of service he will little like." "Why do you say back, Stone?
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