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The lofty air of command had been replaced by a look of bitter hatred and terrible cruelty. "Now, Lablache," he said coldly, "I guess you're goin' to see some fun. I ain't mostly hard on people. I like to do the thing han'some. Say I'll jest roll this bar'l 'long so as you ken set. An' see hyar, ef you're mighty quiet I'll loose them hands o' yours."
Some Injuns is smart, an' gol ding their pictur's! they kin talk like a cat-bird. A skunk has a han'some coat an' acts as cute as a kitten but all the same, which thar ain't no doubt o' it, his friendship ain't wuth a dam. It's a kind o' p'ison. Injuns is like skunks, if ye trust 'em they'll sp'ile ye. They eat like beasts an' think like beasts, an' live like beasts, an' talk like angels.
As we neared the city we both began feeling a bit doubtful as to whether we were quite ready for the ordeal. 'I ought to, I said. 'Those I'm wearing aren't quite stylish enough, I'm afraid. 'They're han'some, said Uncle Eb, looking up over his spectacles, 'but mebbe they ain't just as splendid as they'd orter be. How much money did David give ye?
Columbus Landis, wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel, conferring with a lady in the next seat, applied an over-burdened adjective: "It ain't so much she's han'some, though she is, that but don't you notice she's got a kind of smart look to her? Her bein' so teeny, kind of makes it more so, somehow, too."
There is a saying that han'some is as han'some does, and your politeness is as fine as yo' are han'some, Brer Skunk. Ah'll just step one side and let yo' go first just to show that Ah sho'ly does appreciate your friendship," said Unc' Billy. Jimmy Skunk chuckled. "I guess you've forgotten that other old saying, 'Age before beauty, Unc' Billy," said he. "So you go first.
Buddy's han'some, and they got nice women everywhere " "Love? With all his money? And him only up to fractions?" Allegheny laughed scornfully. Gus Briskow wiped his face with a nervous hand. "I'm 'most sick over it," he confessed. "The perfessor has written me a coupla times about him. Buddy's gone kinda wild, I guess, drinkin' an' " "Drinking?" Gray interrupted, sharply. "Why didn't you tell me?
"By-the-way, what kind of a looking feller is he?" asked Fraser. "He's fine, han'some man," said Chakawana. "Nice fat man. Him got hair like like fire." "He's fat and red-headed, eh? He must be a picture." "Yes," agreed the girl, rather vaguely. "Is he married?" "I don't know. Maybe he lie. Maybe he got woman."
"Han'some es a pictur'," said he, soberly. In a moment he dragged his paddle, listening. "Thet air's th' shore over yender," he whispered. "Don't say a word now. I 'll put ye right on the p'int o' rocks. Creep 'long careful till ye git t' th' road, then turn t' th' left, the cap'n tol' me." When I stepped ashore my dress caught the gunwale and upset our canoe.
When her tribe tried to rescue her, he let loose great storms upon them, his artillery being thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, before which they were forced to flee helter-skelter. An old red chief long ago told me the story, and added gravely that 'it was sartin true, for han'some squaw always catch 'em debil.
"Oh, honey," he exclaimed, holding out his tremulous old hands in a gesture of appeal, while the fire-light flickered on a face on which affection and real sincerity were plain, "I's watched ovuh you evuh sence yo' wuh a baby, an' when I see dat han'some face o' hers was drawin' of yo' on, it jus' nigh broke my ol' brack heaht, it did. It did, Marse Frank, fo' suah."
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