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The cheers travelled in waves around and around the house and rocked back and forth like water pitched from side to side in a monstrous bowl. When the noise abated somewhat, "And this, la-a-a-dies and gen'l'mun, is the peerless, cowpuncher, 'Bud Reeves." Bud at once imitated the example of Happy Morgan, and one after another the five remaining riders followed suit.
But the announcer himself lost his almost invincible sang-froid; in all his matchless vocabulary there were no sounding phrases ready for this occasion, and little Werther strutted in the centre of the great arena, rising to his opportunity. He imitated the ringmaster's phraseology. "La-a-a-dies and gen'l'mun, the price has gone up.
He might tumble off the wall." As Mary went out a maid came in. "A gen'l'mun to see you, Miss Blair," she announced. "Is it a parent?" asked Miss Nellie. The maid's eyebrows twitched, and she looked faintly grieved, as all good servants do when they are forced to consider someone whom they cannot acknowledge as their superior. "No, ma'am, he doesn't look like a parent," she complained.
Ride? I've got a ten-year kid home that would laugh at 'em all. But I'll show 'em up. Want to know my little stunt?" "I'll wait and enjoy the surprise." The wild riders who provoked the scorn of the smaller man were now gathering in the central space; a formidable crew, long of hair and brilliant as to bandannas, while the announcer thundered through his megaphone: "La-a-a-dies and gen'l'mun!
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