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Updated: May 19, 2025
"It's always a comfort to me, when I go fishin', to know that the fish ain't got so much brains as I have. The hook hurts, I presume likely, but they ain't got the sense to realize what a mean trick's been played on 'em. The one that's caught's dead, and them that are left are too busy hustlin' for the next meal to waste much time grievin'. That eases my conscience consider'ble."
"Doggone!" he exclaimed, finally. "I hardly knew you when you stepped off that train, but it seems like old times now, with you hustlin' around in that gingham." "I wish it was." "Hunh?" "I wish, sometimes, that we'd never struck oil." "Good Lord! Why?" "Oh" Allie turned her back and bent over the stove "for lots of reasons! Ma never had a sick day till lately. Now she's failin' fast."
But I know some of them little fires." "We must make one some day. Won't it be fun!" "It sure is when a fella ain't hustlin' to get grub. That poem sounds better after grub, at night, when the stars are shinin' and the horses grazin' and mebby the pack-horse bell jinglin' 'way off somewhere. Then one of them little fires is sure friendly." "Have you been reading this winter?" "Oh, some.
"You looked sort of funny when you said it. Well, then, Peaches, we'll go back to our hole yonder. It's reasonable to suppose that fellers hustlin' to dig it and without any too much time wouldn't make it any bigger than they had to. How about it, huh?" "Guess so, maybe." "Aw right, I told you a while ago the hole was too big for McFluke. Why was it made too big for McFluke?" "Damfino."
He was startled to see the two men standing there, and peered intently into their faces. "Gee!" he exclaimed. "Ye nearly jolted me to slivers." "Empty, have you seen my Jean?" Joe eagerly enquired. "Sure. She's out on the hills. I was jist hustlin' to tell ye." "On the hills!" Joe repeated. "What is she doing but there?" "Search me! I don't know what she's doin' there, an' I guess she doesn't."
The Whittimores seemed to have their quiver full of 'em, as the psalmist says. Mrs. Whittimore used to say to me, 'The Lord will provide, just to keep her courage up, poor thing! Well, I suppose the Lord did provide; but I had to do a lot of hustlin', just the same. No sir, if a parson marries, he better find a woman who has outgrown her short skirts.
Guess I'll git back 'fore they're busy. It'll take 'em all hustlin' to git ahead o' me." "That's very kind," Joan replied mechanically. But the encouragement was scarcely needed. The boy rushed on, like a river in flood time. "Oh, it ain't zac'ly kind!" he said. "Y' see they're mostly a low-down lot, an' Pete's the low-downest. He's bad, is Pete, an' ain't no bizness around a leddy.
He was much annoyed at himself, but the picture of the lusty outlaws lying in the dust with the life stricken out of them had been too much. "All right. I'll be hustlin' along," Dud said, and went. Bob leaned against the wall. June looked at him with wise, understanding mother-eyes. "It was kinda awful, wasn't it? Gave me a turn when I saw them lying there. Must have been worse for you.
But sometimes I get lazy and sit and look at the hills and the cañons and mesas down below, and wonder what's the good of hustlin'. But somehow I got to quit loafin' after a spell and go right to hustlin' again.
"I I may be a trifle late jest a trifle," he hurried on, "but I been hustlin' to git here that is, ever sense about five o'clock, or thereabouts. There's been something I been wantin' to tell you. I I jest wanted to say that I hoped it wa'n't anything I might have said or or kinda hinted at, maybe, nights down to the Tavern, that's druv you out.
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