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Updated: May 27, 2025
It was like fallin' off a roof and landin' in a hammock. What did I care for that push of young lady fluffs then? "Sure thing, it's me," says I, grabbin' the hands before she could change her mind. "Say, have a seat, won't you, Miss Vee?" "Oh, then you haven't forgotten?" says she. "Me?
He does it by plantin' his muddy forepaws in three places on the front of her dress and then grabbin' her gold lorgnette playful, breakin' the chain, and runnin' off with the loot. I expect that was only Buddy's idea of letting her know that he welcomed her as a member of the fam'ly in good standin'. But Auntie takes it different.
There was silence between us then. 'You seem mighty fond on her, young man, said the Gypsy at length, in a softened voice, 'and you don't strike out at me for grabbin' your throat. 'Winifred! Winifred! I said, as I thought of her on the hills on a night like this. 'You seem mighty fond on her, young man, repeated the girl's voice in the darkness.
Say, I couldn't tell exactly what happened next, for I was hustled into a corner and those noble young heroes of the Marne and elsewhere, full of lofty aims and high ambitions and and other things Well, they certainly didn't need any promptin' to carry out the order of ceremonies. Without a word or a whisper they proceeds to grab Hartley wherever the grabbin' was good and then pass him along.
Then I had another modest spell that won't let me ask him whether he'd been put away for givin' rebates, or grabbin' for graft. I knew it must have been somethin' respectable like that. Anyone could see he wa'n't one of your strong arms or till friskers.
But when a woman, young, a good-looker, an' eddicated, an' refined, gits grabbin', why, it makes you see sulphur an' brimstone, an' horns an' hoofs when your thoughts are full o' buzzin' white wings an' harps, an' halos an' things. Git me? I guess stealin' dollars out o' a citizen's pocket-book wouldn't be a circumstance to a female of that nature.
Looks like they was figurin' on grabbin' the Rancho Seco without payin' anything for it Haydon intendin', I reckon, to put dad an' me out of the way an' marry Barbara. Then he could have cut the ranch up into town lots an' made a mint of coin." "An' Deveny?" "Deveny's a wolf. Haydon brought him here from Arizona where he'd terrorized a whole county, runnin' it regardless.
A big Sergeant, with his left arm in a sling, reached over & ketchod him by the collar & held his head above water. "If I pull you out will you promis 2 go out ov the niggor-kotchin bizniss forever?" axed the Sergeant. "Pull me out & then I'll talk 2 you," says the man grabbin for the slippery sides ov the wharfboat. "No, I won't," said the Sergeant, sousin him under water agin.
Thar's a rattlesnake on you bigger'n a dog. "Jaybird says later as how this Todd behaves tremendous. He b'iles up into the atmosphere with a howl like a wolf; an', grabbin' a blanket in each hand, he starts out over the plains in a state of frenzy.
He figured to cash in, I reckon, but he's been grabbin' up everything he could lay his hands on, on the way." "You'll be tellin' Barbara, now?" suggested Harlan. "You're shoutin'!" said Morgan, his eyes glowing. "I'm hittin' the breeze to the Rancho Seco for fair." He looked at Haydon, and his eyes took on a new expression. "I was almost forgettin' what the governor sent me here for," he added.
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