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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I'll fodder white folk, and I'll sling a bone to a bear or a bull pup, but no timber houn' of a lumberjack's goin' to git 'chuck' from the paws of Joe Shafto, and that's the end of the argefyin'," she declared, challenging the girls with a threatening glare through her big horn-rimmed spectacles.
Ain't you got a word of pity for poor Buck Daniels that sneaked off like a whipped puppy? Bah! Dan Barry, the time is come. I been leadin' the life of a houn' dog for your sake. But it's ended. Pull your gun and get out from behind the skirts of that girl!"
"He ain't a houn'," she blazed forth, "and he's just as good and clean as you are." "Shut up! Don't let me hear another word out o' your head. I'm boss here yet, I reckon." Lime came out with his valise in his hand. "Good-by, Merry," he said cheerily. She started to go to him, but her father's rough grasp held her. "Set down, an' stay there." Lime was going out of the gate. "Here!
The American is without a peer as pioneer on land, in mine, in forest; but the boomster, who invariably follows on the heels of that pioneer, is also the most expert "houn' dawg" to rouse the wildcatter. Canadians have too often wakened up only at the wildcat stage, and British capital has come in to reorganize inflated and collapsed properties on a purely investment basis.
An' I hold that since a dog is de facto an' de jure an individual, he has a right to life, liberty an' the pursuit of happiness. "Therefore, gentlemen, I hold that that houn' dog, Buck, had a perfect right to follow that boy, Davy Allen, there; an' I hold that Davy Allen was not called on to drive that dog back, or interfere in any way with that dog followin' him if the dog so chose.
Dan claimed recognition for the Mego "houn'" pups, especially Judge, and the Woman, with some hesitation, spoke of McMillan; but Allan gave valid reasons why they were not eligible. "Not much time left," announced the Big Man as he, with the Peril, paced restlessly up and down in front of the Kennel. "Scotty" pondered anxiously, for his decision must be made immediately.
Of that I is certain. Even the cows and horses on his plantation was scared out o' their minds when he come near 'em. Oh Lordy! I can tell you plenty 'bout the things he done to us poor Niggers. We was treated no better than one o' his houn' dogs. Sometimes he didn' treat us as good as he did them. I prays to the Lord not to let me see him when I die. He had the devil in his heart.
"Think of her wasting herself on a no-good houn' dog like you a no-good wild wolf! My God A'mighty, she might of made some good man happy some man with a soul and a heart but instead of that God sent you like a blast across her you with your damned soul of wind and your heart of stone! Think of it!
The dog was more easily pacified than the man, but finally on our offering to give him three plugs of tobacco to hush up the affair, he became quiet and smoothed the ragged front of his anger. On adding a cigar or two to the plugs, he brightened up and said we might have the "darned houn'" any how, if we wanted him.
You're the houn' I'm after, and I'm a-gwyne to have you, too!" And so he went on, calling Sherburn everything he could lay his tongue to, and the whole street packed with people listening and laughing and going on. By and by a proud-looking man about fifty-five and he was a heap the best dressed man in that town, too steps out of the store, and the crowd drops back on each side to let him come.
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