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We take this opportunity of once more informing Jim that he is a liar and a skunk," and whose editor works with a revolver on his desk and another in his hip-pocket. Graduating from this, he had proceeded to a reporter's post on a daily paper in a Kentucky town, where there were blood feuds and other Southern devices for preventing life from becoming dull.
"I don't feel quite so helpless as that," added Christy, as he took a revolver from his hip-pocket, where he had carried it all the time since the steamer left Nassau, and while she was there. "What are you going to do with that, Christy?" asked Percy, impressed with the sight of the weapon. "I am going to start this tug with it, if necessary. Now hear me." Percy was all attention.
He could not even defend himself save by his hands, for the pistol which he carried in his hip-pocket had been rendered temporarily useless by his passage across the river. Even if he had possessed a whole brace of pistols, he would not have harmed one hair of this kindly minister's head. "I am a Northerner," said Watson, "and I am one of the men who stole a train at Big Shanty this morning.
His trousers, of the ordinary pattern, were clasped at the waist by his cartridge belt, and his shapely feet were encased in strong well-made shoes. His revolver was thrust in his hip-pocket, and the broad collar of his shirt was clasped at the neck by a twisted silk handkerchief.
"Hi, there, you damned sucker!" he called after Goatry, and then saw Foyle waiting. "What the hell !" he said, fiercely, his hand on something in his hip-pocket. "Keep quiet, Dorl. I want to have a little talk with you. Take your hand away from that gun take it away!" he added, with a meaning not to be misunderstood.
But not for long. Extending himself, Duchemin caught the folded top, jumped, and began to clamber in. The man on the box was tugging fretfully at something wedged in the hip-pocket of his breeches; proof enough that he was not the original tenant of the uniform, since it fitted too snugly to permit ready extraction of a pistol in an emergency.
Looking up, he begged him not to send him away; stay he would, whatever it cost; and he would be as true a son to him as a strong young fellow could. At that, the old man rose, went into the house, and came back with something that glittered in his hand. "Take this, Job, put it in your hip-pocket, and the first time any one of the Deans, big or little, insults you, put a bullet through him."
"Mebbe you won't find you're busy when you heard what I got to say." He laughed immoderately. Beasley's whisky was at work, and he had no fear for the purpose in hand. Suddenly he dived a hand into his hip-pocket and drew out the bills the saloon-keeper had paid him. "Look at them," he cried in a voice that was high-pitched with elation.
Each pan he carried down to the water to wash, and as he went higher up the hill the pans grew richer, until he began to save the gold in an empty baking-powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip-pocket. So engrossed was he in his toil that he did not notice the long twilight of oncoming night.
But every time I would say 'pancakes' she would get sort of remote and fidgety about the eye, and try to change the subject. If I held her to it she would slide out and round up Uncle Emsley with his pitcher of water and hip-pocket howitzer. "One day I galloped over to the store with a fine bunch of blue verbenas that I cut out of a herd of wild flowers over on Poisoned Dog Prairie.
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