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"The first thing is Do you think I'm going to tell you lop-eared galoots all I know about a baby? What I want to know is if he's had a bite to eat?" "What did you think we'd feed him?" asked Slivers. "Do we look like his mother?" "Git away, you venomous scum, and let me have him!" demanded Barney. "Hold on," interrupted Tuttle.
That means we've taken a lot of land somewhere north, that you can shoot over that is, you needn't be afraid of hitting a house, or a tree, or a man anywhere; and we've got a strip more of the same sort on the seashore somewhere off here, occupied only by some gay galoots called crofters, and you can raise a lawsuit and an imprecation on every acre.
"But they're not looking for it," objected the kicker, "or they wouldn't go in so swift and hard. Real nerve? I'd believe in that more if I ever heard of one of these nimble-jack racers taking a big chance with his life off the field, and where there was no crowd of wild galoots to look on and cheer!" "Of course killing and maiming are not the real objects of the game," pursued the first speaker.
Van compelled him to receive a market price. Even ponies here were valuable, and Dave had been poor all his life. "Say, Van," he drawled, when at length the transaction was complete, "this camp has set me to thinkin'. It's full of these rich galoots, all havin' an easy time. If ever I git a wad of dough I'm comin' here and buy five dollars worth of good sardines and eat 'em, every one.
'Silence, he hisses, 'if you can't hear that damn reveille, I'll punch you in the snoot, an' then mebbe you'll spread them lop-ears o' yourn! "Heaven! Your Alonzo is derided by a hireling! "'Pack up, you swallow-tailed, leather-seated, pig-prodding sons of galoots! Thus, our first sergeant, recently of the regulars, roll-call having ended.
"It's only the hogwash them Greasers and Pike County galoots ladle out to each other around the stove in a county grocery. But," recalling himself loftily, and with a tolerant wave of his be-diamonded hand, "wot kin you expect from one of them cow counties? They ain't satisfied till they drive every gentleman out of the darned gopher-holes they call their 'kentry."
Other observations with other instruments showed that at that time the country circumjacent to it had been inhabited by a partly civilized race of people known as Galoots, the name of their capital city being Denver.
I 'low she gets my help in that. "He says, 'They'll run you so far into the mountings, Mr. Cavendish, you'll never be heard tell of again in these parts. "I says, 'I'll bust the heads offen these here galoots if they try that! "He asks, grinnin', 'Have you arranged how yo' remains are to be sent back to yo' folks?
I'm willing these old ring-tailed galoots should continue to eat his fascinating poisons, and I certainly hope he'll draw his monthly wage, but I'm going to be too busy to board in any one place, and Algy's salary would make a load I must certainly decline to carry." Mrs. Dick looked at the horseman in utter disappointment. "You won't come? Maybe you mean my house ain't good enough?"
Step over here, and in five minutes, by the living Hoky, I'll qualify you for admission, and not charge you a cent!" He stopped, gave a sweeping glance of dissatisfaction around him, and then, leaning back against the bar, beckoned to some one near the door, and said in a disgusted tone, "You tell these galoots how it happened, Bracy. They make me sick!"
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