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Nacherally, Dick stops at Hickman's tavern so as to mollify his feelin's with that red-eye. This yere wag gets in ag'in on the play, subtracts the pup an' restores the little hawg a whole lot. When Dick gets to Jedge Chinn, he onfolds to the Jedge touchin' them transformations from pig to pup. 'Pshaw! says the Jedge, who's one of them pos'tive sharps that no ghost tales is goin' to shake; 'pshaw!
From somewhere in the murky middle distance came a scornful 'Hawg! and he was gone, leaving me with a settled conviction that, while I had frequently had occasion, since my expedition to Sanstead began, to describe affairs as complex, their complexity had now reached its height.
But to have to sit like a dumb lamb and let a stranger tell yu' for an hour that yu're a hawg and a swine, just after you have acted in a way which them that know the facts would call pretty near white " "Trampas!" I could not help exclaiming. For there are moments of insight when a guess amounts to knowledge. "Has Scipio told " "No. Not a word. He wouldn't tell me."
"This is the first time I was ever up here. I'm a lawyer." "Yaah, one of them city lawyers; they tell me they is cute. I have had to do some lawing lately. Down the crick erbout a mile Elhannon Howard lives. Last winter I sold Elhannon a hawg on credit fer ten dollars like a dang fool and he wouldn't pay fer it, so I lawed him before Squire Ingram and got jedgment.
"If I can back up, so can he. He's got as much road behind him as what I'VE got," Casey retorted stubbornly. "He never made a try at turnin' out. I was watchin'. Any time I can't lick a road hawg, he's got a license to lick me. Make yourself comf'table, young feller we're liable to set here a spell." Casey grinned.
'Sam, give us a quarter, then. I walked on. 'Sam, don't be a hawg! He broke into a run. 'Sam! His voice lost its pleading tone and rasped menacingly. 'Gee, if I had me canister, youse wouldn't be so flip! Listen here, you big cheese! You t'ink youse is de only t'ing in sight, huh? Well, we ain't done yet. You'll see yet. We'll fix you! Youse had best watch out. I stopped and turned on him.
Like to have you do it, but I guess we'll have to have a man to do the heavy lifting, I s'pose." "I s'pose not, sir! I am jest as able to yank a hawg as ever, sir; yes, sir, demmit demmit! Do you think I've got one foot in the grave?" Nevertheless, Daddy often failed to come to time on appointed days, and it was painful to hear him trying to explain, trying to make light of it all.
"It all arises years ago, back in Tennessee, an' gets its first start out of a hawg which is owned by Olson an' is downed by a gent named Hoskins Bill Hoskins. It's this a-way. "Back in Tennessee in my dream-wreathed yooth, when livestock goes projectin' about permiscus, a party has to build his fences 'bull strong, hawg tight, an' hoss high, or he takes results.
Dey wuz a kinda noise goin' on by de ba'n, but Lijah, he ain't got no likin' fo' to get up an' see wat's de mattah. So he tu'n ovah, an' bambye he ain't heah no mo' noise, an' he go to sleep ag'in. In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid. Lijah, he scratch his haid an' tu'n de hawg ovah wid his foot.
Carson, still watching him, saw him spin the cylinder, slip a box of fresh cartridges into his pocket and turn to the door. "Riding, Bud?" He got to his feet, stuffed his pipe into his pocket and reached for his hat. "Care if I mosey along?" "What for?" asked Lee curtly. "Oh, hell, what's the use being a hawg," Carson grumbled deep down in his brown throat.
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