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Updated: May 5, 2025
I often wondered where you went after you finished your meat contract." "I scouted a while for the gover'ment, but we run out of Indians. Then I went to Texas and rode with the rangers a year or two." "I guess you kept your gun-barrel hot down in that country, Seth?" "Yeh. Once in a while it was lively. Dyin' out down there now, quiet as a school."
If Ah eber 'cumulates as much as dat, Ah'll buy a brownstone house in Pillumdelphy an' settle down dar to lib on mah income. Ah'd suttinly like to keep mah strength down the rest ob mah life a crippin' coupins off'n gover'ment bands. Neber see none ob dem gover'ment bands, but, bah jinks! dey mus' be de real stuff. Yah! yah! yah!"
Attacks on the Gover'ment policy, nasty things said abaht members of it that's indiscreet enough to speak aht what, they think German fathers, and other secret vices; an' what's more than all, not a peep at any opinion that supports the Gover'ment.
Parlyment's elected by the People, and Gover'ment's elected by Parlyment. All right so far; but what 'appens? Gover'ment says 'I'm going to do this. So long as it meets with the approval of the Unseen Power, well an' good. But what if it don't?
"I've something to tell 'ee that's come into my head about that a grand projick!" whispered his cheerful wife. "Here, John, don't 'ee see me?" She nudged him, while he, looking through her as through a window-pane, went on with his recitative. "Hush! Don't 'ee sing so loud, my good man," said the landlady; "in case any member of the Gover'ment should be passing, and take away my licends."
Sandy, my boy, you need educatin'. A trust's a corporation of folks wot is so crooked, they got to git together, an' pool their cash, so's to git enough dollars to kep 'em out o' penitentiary. That's how they start. Later on, if they kep clear o' the penitentiary, they start in to fake the market till the Gover'ment butts in.
Then, as if with a great effort, and after the manner of one who has learned a part, he went on: "As the French ran away mad, paw of one on tail of other, they found him trying to drag himself along. They nabbed him, and carried him aboard their boats to pilot them out from the Rocque Platte, and over to France. Then because they hadn't gobbled us up here, what did the French Gover'ment do?
"Law's law, and law says that the likes of her has got to be sent back. The only way that you could keep her here would be to put up bonds to guarantee th' gover'ment against her goin' on th' town or anything like that." She did not understand him in the least. "What is it that you mean?" she asked.
And, mind, if your masters won't let ye leave work soon enough, tell me, and I'll write a line to Gover'ment! 'Tention! To the right left wheel, I mean no, no right wheel. Mar r r rch! Some wheeled to the right and some to the left, and some obliging men, including Cripplestraw, tried to wheel both ways. 'Stop, stop; try again!
"Congress started that there Relief Expedition all right," the josher went on, "only them blamed reindeer had got the feed habit, and when they'd et up everything in sight they set down on the Dalton Trail and there they're settin' yit, just like they was Congress. But I don't like to hear no feller talkin' agin' the Gover'ment."
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