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G'wan, Chieftain, er Mister Car-na-gy here'll be after givin' us a lib'ry." Chieftain, and Tim, too, for that matter, were nearer actual freedom than ever before. For years the big Norman had used his magnificent muscles only for straining at the traces. He had trod only the hard pavements.
"Six months' time in here'll have this stuff with whiskers on it like a Singapore tramp that hasn't been docked in a dog's age." "I say gold don't rust," persisted Petrak. "How about it, Thirkle? Does gold rust? I say it don't, and Bucky says it do." "You're right, Reddy, but don't quarrel now," said Thirkle. "It won't rust because gold doesn't rust."
"You always did have a head for thinkin' up things, Dick, and this here'll sorter split the difference, and ease matters so as " "Yes, and our two old women can draw straws, if they've got a mind to, and see which of them is obligated to make the fust call," interrupted Dick. "Jist heft him, old feller," urged one of them. "Ain't he a whopper, though!" exclaimed the other.
I dare you to come out from behind your tree, and take a shot with me in the open, accordin' to Hardee's tactics. Your gun's empty; so's mine. My chum here'll see fair play; and you kin bring your chum with you. Come out, you skulkin' brindle pup, and shoot man fashion, if you dare." "Ye can't dare me, ye nigger-stealin' blue-belly," shouted the rebel in return, coming out from behind his tree.
But Beasley was too slow, and, with an impatient exclamation, he snatched up the biggest of them and set it on the somewhat delicate scales with a heavy hand. "Say, you're rapid as a sick funeral," he cried. "I ain't got no time to waste. What I got here'll need that an' more. Ther'!" Beasley's temper was never easy, and his narrow eyes began to sparkle. "You're mighty fresh," he cried.
If he takes me as he finds me I'll do the same by him an' he knows I'll count the sacks. Cap'n Cai here'll tell you I'd never have put such a trick on Philp if he hadn' shown himself so suspicious. I hate a suspicious man. . . . An' that's one reason, Cap'n, why I want you to decide on takin' my place on the School Board.
"Ah! stop yer botheration, and don't be comin' yer Dutch logger over an Irishman! put down the five dollars, and we'll take the drinks presently; meself and me friend here'll drink yer health," said Dunn, pointing to Manuel, who shook his head as much as to decline. The Dutchman now opened his drawer, and rolling a bill up in his fingers, passed it as if unobserved into the hands of Dunn.
"I don' want to go up there; ev'ybody here'll look right at me." "Are there no little orphans here?" the minister was saying. "I want to shake the hand of any little child who has had the misfortune to lose its parents." "Go on, William," commanded his aunt. "Go shake hands with the preacher." The little boy again demurred but, Miss Minerva insisting, he obediently slipped by her and by his chum.
"Luk at that for eddication, Sam!" he roared. "When will ye be able to do the like? Arrah, but ye're good stuff, Yan, an' I've got something here'll plase ye." Raften now pulled out his purse and as magistrate paid over with evident joy the $5 bounty due for killing the Lynx. Thus Yan came into the largest sum be had ever owned in his life. Then the Indians went into their teepees.
"I'll lay low and see what he's up to," he told himself. "If he's got an invention, I'll get up a company. I'll get money in and I'll start a factory. The people here'll tumble over each other to get into a thing like that. I don't believe any one sent him here. I'll bet he's just an inventor. That kind always are queer. I'll keep my mouth shut and watch my chance.
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