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Updated: June 10, 2025
Thar's a rattlesnake on you bigger'n a dog. "Jaybird says later as how this Todd behaves tremendous. He b'iles up into the atmosphere with a howl like a wolf; an', grabbin' a blanket in each hand, he starts out over the plains in a state of frenzy.
He's mighty shore about his jokes bein' excellent good jokes; an' while it's plain Todd ain't got no confidence in him an' distrusts him complete since he tips over his bronco that mornin', it looks like Jaybird can't let him alone.
"To keep peace in camp an' not let him go to pawin' 'round for real trouble with the festive Jaybird, Enright stands in to cap the game himse'f; an' puts it up in confab with this Todd the next day as how he sees the rattlesnake, an' that it's mighty near bein' a whopper.
"I don't want to rob you young men," said he, "and without doubt you could sell both of those boats here if you liked. But if you want us to keep them, they will be of great value to us. Moise hunts up and down the river all the time, and can use the dugout. I live on Little Slave, and hunt miles below here, but I have plenty of friends with wagons, and they'll take the Jaybird across for me.
Everywhere he went Sammy Jay heard that shouted after him. Dozens and dozens of times a day he heard it. At first he lost his temper and was the very maddest Jaybird ever seen on the Green Meadows or in the Green Forest. "It isn't true! It isn't true! It isn't true!" he would scream at the top of his lungs. And then everybody within hearing would shout: "It is true!"
My jokes is good, high-grade jokes; an' when you-all talks of me bein' morose, it's a mere case of bluff. An' so Jaybird goes on a-holdin of himse'f funny ontil we- alls has him to bury. "No; Jaybird ain't his shore-'nough name; it's jest a handle to his 'dentity, so we-alls picks it up handy and easy. Jaybird's real name is Graingerford, Poindexter Graingerford.
Your mind moves sluggish that a-way, an' sorter sinks to the hocks each step. If you was born to be funny your intellects would be limber an' frivolous. "'Bein' all this is personal to me, says Jaybird Bob, 'I takes leave to regard you as wrong.
"We-alls picks Todd up, an' rounds up his pony, which scrambles to its feet an' is now cavortin' about like its mind is overturned, an' explains to him this yere is a joke. But he's surly an' relentless about it; an' it don't take no hawk to see he don't forgive Jaybird a little bit.
Besides this, they wished to remain with Alex as long as possible, for all of them had become very fond of the quiet and dignified man who had been their guide and companion for so long. The four of them had no trouble in finishing the portage of the Jaybird and her cargo from the wagon to navigable water, and finally they set off, paddling for the marshes which made off toward the main lake.
"It's when we-alls rides away that Doc Peets who's out with the round-up, though he ain't got no cattle-brand himse'f tells Jaybird he's not a humorist, like I already repeats. "But, as I su'gests, this Jaybird Bob can't believe it none.
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