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Updated: September 3, 2025
Then Harry Joslyn and Gid Mackall, spreading their blankets apart for the first time since they had been in the service, sought rest from their fatigue and forgetfulness of their mutual anger. Si and Shorty kept sternly apart.
We'll have to manage it some other way." A shower of buck-shot flew from the church. "I gad, Major, they've got buck-shot," said Gid. "And they could mow us down before we could cross that place. They still outnumber us two to one packed in there like sardines. Don't you think we'd better scatter about and peck at 'em when they show an eye? I'd like to know who built that church.
"Well," he answered as he raised his lips from a joy draft at the cup of her pink palms, "the immediate cause was a telegram that came Tuesday night. It said 'Gid sells out Mr. Tucker and wants your girl, and it was signed 'Bob. All these weeks a bunch of hard old goldbugs had been sitting in conclave, weighing my evidence and reports and making one inadequate syndicating offer after another.
Hold your lamp out here so that I can see to get on my horse." When Gid returned from the passage wherein he had stood to shelter the light, he found Jim on the bench, with no apparent intention of taking his leave; and this he construed to mean that the giant had something on his mind. "Out with it, Jimmie," he said, as he put the lamp upon the mantel-piece.
"Your client doesn't seem to be in an especially amiable and lamb-like mood this morning," said Parker. The lawyer dusted the snow from his garments. "Beautiful disposition, old Gid Ward has!" he snarled. "Left me here to walk sixteen miles to a railroad-station, and never offered to settle with me." "You forget the 'Poquette and Sunkhaze Air-Line," Parker smiled.
How much talk there was about it! Everyone was forever praising himself for his generosity, was reciting acts of the most obvious selfishness in proof. Was there any such thing in the whole world as real generosity? "They like a generous man," pursued Gid. "I'm tight in business I can see a dollar as far as the next man and chase it as hard and grab it as tight.
The lathy Gid Mackall, whose appetite did not need the sharpening it got from the free mountain air, put in much of his time cooking, all possible variations of his rations with anything else that he could get hold of, and devouring the product with eagerness.
And Low, grasping the old man's hand, replied: "I am an Englishman, and my father is a gentleman." "Gid," said the Major, "my name is John, God bless you." Down the road arose sharp words of command, and the burning top of a tall pine snag threw its light upon bayonets in the highway. The soldiers were come. "I wonder what is to be the end of this day's beginning," said the Englishman.
"Gracious, how good these beans taste," murmured Harry Joslyn, calling for a second plateful; "never knowed beans to taste so good before. Wonder how they cook 'em? We'll have to learn how, Gid, so's to cook 'em for ourselves, and when we git back home won't we astonish our mothers and sisters?" "And sich coffee," echoed Gid. "I'll never drink cream in my coffee agin.
"Why, the man's old enough to be her grand-daddy, let alone her father. Gid Himes the old What in the name of ? Johnnie and you think Himes is mixed up with this young man that's been laywaid him and Buckheath? Lord, what is all this business?"
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