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Wimmen's clubs is all right so long as they stick to readin' hist'ry and discussin' tattin', but when they flock like a lot of old hen turkeys and go to peckin' a man because he's down and can't help himself, it ain't anything but persecution wolves turnin' on another one that's got his leg broke. I know animiles, and I know human critters.
'In thirty minutes I distributes this yere hamlet 'round in the landscape same as them Greasers; which feat becomin' hist'ry, I then canters back to Red Dog. "'Well, says Enright, 'it's plenty p'lite to let us know what's comin' this a-way. "'Oh!
Her classmates soon found that they could learn a lesson in half the time and with half the effort by studying it with Anne. "I speak to study the hist'ry with Anne to-day," Amelia would say. "Anne, if you'll go over the g'og'aphy lesson with me, I'll work your 'zamples for you," Madge would promise. The girls found, too, that Anne could tell the most delightful stories.
"But the thirteenth day, he strikes in on the big trail, where you never meets no outfits comin' back, an' that settles it. The boys, not havin' no leader, with Mace petered, gives up the game, an' the big raid on nose-paint in Wolfville is only hist'ry now. "When I knows Bowman first he's sheriff over in northeast New Mexico. A good sheriff Mace is, too.
"Which it's reason, an' likewise fact, that sech tales is merest figments on their faces; to say nothin' of the hist'ry of that camp of Deming, which don't speak of no sech blood. "But, as I says, what of it? Pore Lyin' Amos! he's cashed in an' settled long ago, like I mentions, goin' for the Wells-Fargo boxes onct too frequent!
Wa'al, I ain't goin' to give you the hull fam'ly hist'ry, an' I've got to go into the kitchen fer a while 'fore dinner, but what I started out fer 's this: 'Lish fin'ly settled over to Whitcom." "Did he ever git married?" interrupted Mrs. Cullom. "Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Bixbee, "he got married when he was past forty.
Anne was so cheered that she came in, sat down at the study-table, and took up her history with whole-hearted interest. Amelia, on the other side of the table, looked up and frowned. "That's an awful hard hist'ry lesson," she said. Anne was disinclined to speak to Amelia Amelia had been so hateful! but finally she said rather curtly: "I don't think it's hard."
He could not read, but one of his daughters read to him, and he had learned by heart nearly all that lay between the two lids of a "Universal History" such as book agents peddle about. Like one of John Fox's characters, he was fond of the expression "hist'ry says" so-and-so, and he considered it a clincher in all matters of debate. Our conversation drifted to the topic of moonshining.
After a few moments of thus caterwauling night hideous, like a pack of coyotes, the Crows began to close in on the Lakerim stronghold, and stones and sticks flew around the two in a shower that kept them busy dodging. "We've got to make a break for it, Hist'ry," said Tug, under his breath.
Miss Blake and her companion smiled and nodded, at which Stover, encouraged beyond measure, elaborated. "He's had a hist'ry, too. When he reaches man's real-estate the Injun agent ropes, throws, and hog-ties him, then sends him East to be cultivated. He spends four years kickin' a football " Speed interrupted, with an exclamation of genuine interest.
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