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He’d never’ve lasted this long was that so—not with th’ Old Man an’ th’ army an’ what law there is in th’ territory all gunnin’ for him. Plans things, Kitchell does, an’ so far his plannin’ has always paid off. "There’s something else true now, too. Was Kitchell plannin’ to make a break south, he’d want him a good big stake to cover him on cold nights an’ winter days.
When I was a boy larnin' to shoot, sais father to me, one day, 'Sam, sais he, 'I'll give you a lesson in gunnin' that's worth knowin'. "Aim high," my boy; your gun naterally settles down a little takin' sight, cause your arm gets tired, and wabbles, and the ball settles a little while it's a travellin', accordin' to a law of natur, called Franklin's law; and I obsarve you always hit below the mark.
"Somebody's gunnin' fer us, looks like t' me," Barney observed belatedly in a hoarse whisper, from his covert. "Found that out, did yuh? Well, it ain't the first time Casey's been shot at and missed," Casey retorted peevishly in the lee of the bank. "Say! I knowed the sing of bullets before I was old enough to carry a tune."
But I 'm damned if I don't git some. Thar ain't a minin' engineer in San Juan that 'll come up yere fer us. Them fellers hes got 'em all on the hip; but I reckon, if we hunt long 'nough, we kin find some feller in Colorado with nerve 'nough to tackle this yere job, an' I 'm a-goin' out gunnin' for jist that man."
"Tell Miss Brewer I'll be to see her soon as the weather gits better." Jake got up, scratched his head, and thought a moment. "I might leave ye a rabbit, seein' yer daddy ain't well 'nough to do no gunnin'," said he. "Ye're awful good, Jake," murmured Tessibel, following the man to the door. "Stop in any day." "All right," and Jake struck out toward the rock path.
He seemed oddly anxious to see the last of his visitors. It was the Captain who spoke. "No, Con," he said, crisply, "he ain't goin' to tell me that. And you listen while I tell YOU somethin'. If that cat of ours gets hurt or don't show up some time I'll know who's responsible. And then well, then maybe I'LL go gunnin'. Good night, all hands."
He would "go gunnin' for him" with a vengeance. It was about noon when he rode in to the ranchhouse. He did not turn his pony into the corral, but hitched it to one of the columns of the porch, for he intended to go on to the Diamond H as soon as he could get his belongings packed. In any event, he would leave the Flying W.
Her clear eyes were watching a small skiff, invisible to less keen-sighted observers, aground upon a flat near the mouth of the channel. "Them chaps will have a high ole time gunnin' thar, stuck in the mud, and the tide goin' out like sixty!"
Without so much as inquiring whose, he shot down the swift current after the dog-thief. He roared back to the remonstrating Colonel that he didn't care if an up-river steamer did come while he was gone he was goin' gunnin'. At the same time he shared the now general opinion that a Lower River boat would reach them first, and he was only going to meet her, meting justice by the way.
Gunnin' was all right except for one thing that is, that there wa'n't none wuth mentionin'. "'Ducks are scurser round here than Democrats in a Vermont town-meetin', growled the Cap'n. 'And as for geese! How long has it been since you see a goose, Barzilla? "'Land knows! says I. 'I can remember as fur back as the fust time Washy Sparrow left off workin', but I can't "Brown told us to shut up.
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