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Updated: June 1, 2025
"The girl," Jim Boone was saying, "kept you pretty busy tryin' to make a break, and if she could do anything maybe you'd have a pile of trouble with one of them guardin' you. But if I'd had a good look at you, lad, I'd never have let Jack take the job of guardin' you." "Thanks," answered Pierre dryly. "You got reason; I can see that. Here's the point, Pierre.
I backed out as soft as a feather bed, an' I didn't go near that settin'-room for an hour, nor let any one else. I was a regular dragon-fly guardin' it. Well, by an' by Keith comes out. His face was white an' strained- lookin'. But he was smiling, an' he handed out my poem I'd left it on the table when I come out with Mis' McGuire. 'I found this paper on the table, Susan.
As wuz befittin', most the first thing that our eyes fell on wuz a big, noble statute of Benjamin Franklin. He stands with his kite in his hand, a-lookin' up with a rapt look as if waitin' for instructions from on high. He seemed to be guardin' the entrance to this temple, and he looked as if he wuz glad to be there, and I truly wuz glad to have him there.
Dat low-down white trash ob a giant is all right fo' guardin', but he ain't wuff shucks at detectin'!" said Eradicate, with pardonable pride. "By golly, maybe I's too old t' put on guard, but I kin detect, all right!" "If this proves true, I'll begin to believe you can," replied Tom. "Hop along, Ned!"
Haven't I been for the last mortal month guardin' him aginst yez, you villains?" "To-morrow evenin'?" "Ay, to-morrow evenin'; an' if we don't give him a gauliogue that'll make him dance the circumbendibus widout music never believe that my name's any thing else than Tom Thin, that got thick upon spring wather.
It's just what you've been doing ever since they came here, that's all. Ruth says she has been going to you for advice since the beginning. I just want her to keep on doing it." "But but, my soul, I I ain't fit to be anybody's guardian. . . . I I ought to have somebody guardin' me. Anybody'll tell you that. . . . Besides, I I don't think " "Yes, you do; and you generally think right.
So his expression changed to a wily smile, and he said: "What you-all ha'r fur ef th' Sheriff's up thar guardin' th' precious mine?" "Told to warn away any foolish town-clerks who might be heading straight to Kingdom Come! You know Bill likes to give every chump a loop-hole to save himself, if possible," retorted Mr. Brewster.
"Forty dollars a month following your trail don't look good t' me no more. I'm four hundred dollars t' the good sence last night, and takin' all comers. Good money's just fallin' my way. I don't guess I hanker after any more night guardin', thank ye." "Suit yourself," said Chip coldly, and turned away. Argument was useless and never to his liking.
Let her work all the time, day and night, and let men go on in the same sure old way of superentendin' her movements, guardin' her weaker footsteps, and bossin' her round generally."
"Don't be an ass, Monte," said one. "You got a good hoss, but you ain't fool enough to think he c'n catch Satan?" They trooped back to the dining-room, and gathered in a silent circle around the sheriff, whose little fear-bright eyes went from face to face. "Ah, this is the swine," said one, "that was guardin' our lives!"
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