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I want to see Sam when he gits off o' that horse. Milly was settin' on the top seat considerably higher'n I was. And says she, 'I wouldn't care if I didn't see Sam for a week to come. Sam don't git mad often, says she, 'but when he does, folks'd better keep out o' his way.
It wasn't ore, you remember. It was pure, soft metal you could have melted right down into dollars. The boys cut it out with chisels. If old Elmer hadn't played that trick on me, I'd have been in for about fifty thousand. That was a close call, Spanish." "I recollec'. When the pocket gone, the town go bust." "You bet. Higher'n a kite.
And then five dollars in change in my pocket, my own money. That was the rule. I borrowed that five from Tom Donovan, the policeman. Then what? They worked me for two weeks without pay, breakin' me in." "Did you pick up any fancy skirts?" Saxon queried teasingly. Bert shook his head glumly. "I only worked a month. Then we organized, and they busted our union higher'n a kite."
Waves! they was higher'n the masts; and I've rode some fair lively sun-fishers in my time, but I ain't never struck anythin' like the r'arin' and buckin' and high-an'-lofty tumblin' that that same boat went through with those first few hours after we had come out. "But Ally Bazan tells me to go downstairs in the boat an' lie up quiet, an' byne-by I do feel better.
We've been gamblin'. D'ye know what he had the gall to say to me? that they was all ourn at ten dollars a egg. D'ye know what he was doin' when I left his cabin? drawin' a sign of eggs for sale. Said he'd give us first choice, at ten a throw, till 2 P. M., an' after that, if we didn't come across, he'd bust the market higher'n a kite.
Marse Bob done knock his heels higher'n his haid. Oh, glory!" And puffing and sweating he dived into the fort with all the canteens. He had brought the water. But "Marse Jim, please, sar, make dis water go fur as possible," he pleaded. "'Twon't take much mo' dat kind o' work 'foh dar'll be one nigger less in dis world. No, sar!
All Tregenzas was o' the Lard's harvest; an' should I, as feared God more'n any o' 'em, an' fought for the Lard of Hosts 'fore I was higher'n this table should I Michael Tregenza, breed a damned sawl? The thot's comed black an' terrible 'pon my mind 'fore to-day; an' I've put en away from me, judgin' 'twas the devil.
Um ready nine um clock." He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable, sphinx-like, neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking to right or left. The Virgin led Daylight away into a corner. "Look here, Daylight," she said, in a low voice, "you're busted." "Higher'n a kite." "I've eight thousand in Mac's safe " she began. But Daylight interrupted.
I have travelled around considerable since them days, and I have mixed up along of many kinds of people in many different places, and some of 'em was cussers to admire. But I never hearn such cussing before or since as old Hank done that night. He busted his own records and riz higher'n his own water marks for previous times.
Lots o' good o' your packin' around guns and cartridges, if you're goin' to waste your ammynition on the malaria in the clouds. Load agin, now, carefully, and when you shoot agin be sure to fetch something. I'll take my ramrod to the next boy that I ketch shootin' higher'n a man's head. This ain't no Fourth-o'-July business.
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