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I'll sell you, gentlemen, that hay in 40 quarter-ton lots, commencing at the top, each man to pay $2 besides the regular price for a quarter ton o' hay, an' we'll draw numbers as to our turns in takin' the fodder." "Looks somethin' like gamblin'," demurred the Deacon. "No more'n church lotteries," answered Jabe, "since it's for a good purpose.
"Ere, one o' you kids, fetch me a bit o' chalk. I 'ate to see you idlin' your time away, gamblin' and dicin', like the Profligate Son when he broke the bank at Monte Carlo." He mounted the platform. "While Ginger's gettin' the chalk I'll ask you a question or two to testify your general knowledge." He took the cigarette out of his mouth, and wriggled his chin above his high collar. "Who done Mr.
The best it ever is, is straight gamblin' I say the BEST it ever is, is straight gamblin'" Jim's voice was gritty with wrath "while at the worst," he went on, "it stoops to murder, wholesale and retail, it ruins homes, it manufactures thieves an' perjurers an' " "You remind me of a feller named Fergoson," sez I. "He said that at the best, business was stealin'."
"I've heard tell of Belle Lorrigan drivin' hell-whoopin' over the country with a team of bronks, but I kinda thought they was stretching the truth. I guess not, though, if that's a sample." "The woman hersel' is no so bad. 'Tis the men folk that are black wi' sin. Drinkin', swearin', gamblin' thieves they be, and 'tis well they should be taught a lesson." The Douglas head wagged self-righteously.
Webster, "some one he'd fell in with out in them parts, that had gone there to git cured. But, High Mighty! the way them two carried on at all hours wasn't goin' to cure no one of nothin'! Specially gamblin', which was done right in public, you might say, though the sharpers never skinned me none, I'll say that!
"Do you think he's after me?" "He ain't after nobody else, an', take my word for it, it's got nothin' to do with McNamara nor that gamblin' row. He's too game for that. There's some other reason." This was the first mention Dextry had made of the night at the Northern. "I don't know why he should have it in for me I never did him any favors," Glenister remarked, cynically.
Well, I ain't much on gamblin', but I've got a leetle in my pants that says that there pinto kin outwork any blanked bronco in this outfit, givin' him a fair show after the cattle." The men became interested. "Whar was he raised?" "Dunno." "Whar'd ye git him? Across the line?" "No," said Bill stoutly, "right in this here country. The Dook there knows him."
If we had 'em, we'd sarve 'em as we do the gamblin houses down south, pull 'em right down, there would'nt be one on 'em left in eight and forty hours. Some domestic factories they ought to have here; its an essential part of the social system. Now we've run to the other extreme, its got to be too big an interest with us, and aint suited to the political institutions of our great country.
One is as much as you can manage now." She spoke witheringly. "I give you one more chance." "More than I can manage. You know Dick will get drunk " "Not unless you make him. Who was drunk at that barbecue at Jones's Cross Roads last summer!" "Oh, Mary!" "Who set up till after Sunday mornin' playin' kyards . Yes, gamblin' the last night of last County Cote!" "Oh, Mary! All right.
"Dead?" questioned Webster. "As a door nail," returned the babbler. "Socorro's bad man," said Webster, sententiously. "Wasn't a bit of good in him. Gamblin', shootin', outlaw. Best job Buck ever done." He found Mary Jane in the kitchen, singing over the supper dishes. "Texas Rankin is dead over at San Marcial," he said, with the importance of one communicating delectable news.
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