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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I reckon yer couldn't catch up to ther galoot, eh, Wild?" remarked Cheyenne Charlie. "Oh, I caught up with him, all right," was the reply. "Things worked just the way I wanted them to." "Is that so? Good enough!" "Yes. I caught up to Cap Roche, and I was just in time to see him disappear." "Disappear?" echoed Arietta. "Then he fooled you, after all?" "Oh, no.
"Played cards with a galoot who had some aces in his boot-tops. Plugged him." "What's the matter with your Rees?" "That's just it! You see, that bunch of Sioux out there" he jerked his head toward the stockade "helped in a bit of treachery two summers ago. Rounded up some friendly Rees at a dance and scalped 'em. So there's poison for you!
And the assistant directly forewarned us, just like that: 'If you stiffs, and so on and so on, will let out even one little rude word, or something, then I won't leave one stone upon another of your establishment, while I'll flog all the wenches soundly in the station-house and make 'em rot in jail! Well, at last this galoot came.
"I want to tell you why I want to be on the stage. I couldn't tell how I hate Noonoon. Just fancy marrying some galoot about here and settling down to wash pots and pack tomatoes and live in the dust among the mosquitoes, always! I'd rather die. I'll tell you the whole thing while I'm about it. You won't mind, as I'm sure you have had trouble too, as your white hair doesn't look to be age."
If down the highway I should press, beneath the summer skies, to rescue damsels in distress and wipe their weeping eyes, I'd win no praises from the sports; they'd call me a galoot; I'd have to answer in the courts to breach-of-promise suit. Adventure is a thing that's dead, we've reached a low estate, and I was born, alas!" he said, "five hundred years too late."
He turned and saw invitation in her eyes. "I'm keeping your chair," she calmly informed him since between two evils it is wise to choose the less. "Thank you," said Nick, as quietly as if it had been a long engagement. "Did that galoot annoy you?" he asked, dropping into the seat. "No," said Angela. "But I preferred you for a neighbour."
"I don't want any one to plead for me! I ain't pleading fur myself! I can take my medicine like a man; if there's any galoot here " He suddenly checked himself with an apprehensive glance at the door of the rear room, and then resumed in a more subdued voice: "I insist that Al Bidwell shall suffer for his onspeakable crime and me too, 'cause mine was onspeakabler.
When the crowd had gone into the big show tent, what do you think, that confounded midget began to ask me how I stood on the tariff question, and he argued for free trade, whatever that is, for half an hour, and made me think of Bryan during a campaign, and then he branched off on to the Monroe doctrine, which I suppose is something connected with a rival show, and I guess he would be talking yet, only a big husky fellow came along, a fellow about 25 years old, and he stooped over and put his hand on the midget's shoulder and said: "Hello, dad," and by gosh, the midget introduced me to the big galoot as his youngest son.
"Boring for water, you black-and-tan galoot!" replied the Sheik of the Outfit, with that ready repartee which distinguishes the Unbeliever. "Knowest thou not, thou whelp of darkness and father of disordered livers," cried the Fogy, "that water will cause grass to spring up here, and trees, and possibly even flowers? Knowest thou not, that thou art, in truth, producing an oasis?"
He had been promised, by the cousin of somebody else, the position of clerk with Otto Kling, and although Otto had never heard of it, he WOULD have heard of it and the nephew been duly installed but for "a galoot who SAID his name was O'Day." And another thing. What was a fellow, who would work under a Dutchman like Kling, for only enough to pay his board, doing with a dress suit, anyhow?
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