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"There wasn't no joke about that, old feller," the Duke said seriously, grateful that the girl's trick had not resulted in any greater damage to his friend than the shock to his dignity and simple heart. "Yes, and it was my own gum. That's the worst part of it, Duke; she wasn't even usin' his gum, dang her melts!" "She must have favored Jedlick pretty strong to go that far."
What's good looks by the side of money? Or brains? Well, they don't amount to cheese!" "Are you goin' to sidestep in favor of Jedlick? A man with all your experience and good clothes!" "Me? I'm a-goin' to lay that feller out on a board!" They hitched at the hotel rack, that looking more respectable, as Taterleg said, than to leave their horses in front of the saloon.
Taterleg rode along in silence a little way. "Well, that was purty good for him," he said. "Who was that hopped a horse like he was goin' for the doctor, and tore off?" "Jedlick, dern him!" Lambert allowed the matter to rest at that, knowing that neither of them had been hurt.
It seemed that the effervescent fellow could not be wholly serious about anything. Lambert was not certain that he was serious in his attitude toward Jedlick as he went away with his sweet-scented box under his arm. By the time Lambert had finished his arrangements for a special train to carry the first heavy shipment of the Philbrook herd to market it was long after dark.
Well, she told me Jedlick was layin' for me, and begged me not to hurt him, for she didn't want to see me go to jail on account of a feller like him. She talked to me like a Dutch uncle, and put her head so clost I could feel them bangs a ticklin' my ear. But that's done with; she can tickle all the ears she wants to tickle, but she'll never tickle mine no more.
She likes to have him around till she leans ag'in' him and rubs the paint off, then she's out shootin' eyes at another one." "Are there others besides Jedlick?" "That bartender boards there at the ho-tel. He's got four gold teeth, and he picks 'em with a quill. Sounds like somebody slappin' the crick with a fishin'-pole.
Makes a feller want to lean over and pat that little row of bangs." "I expect there's a feller down there doin' it now." The spring complained under Taterleg's sudden movement; there was a sound of swishing legs under the sheet. Lambert saw him dimly against the window, sitting with his feet on the floor. "You mean Jedlick?" "Why not Jedlick? He's got the field to himself."
Jedlick" a hand on his arm, but confident of the force of it, like a lady animal trainer in a cage of lions "you come on over here and set down and leave that gentleman alone." "If anybody but you'd 'a' said it, Alta, I'd 'a' told him he was a liar," Jedlick growled. He moved his foot to go with her, stopped, snarled at Taterleg again.
If you ever make a pass at me you'll swaller wind so fast you'll bust. Well, he begun to shuffle and prance and cut up like a boy makin' faces, and there's where Alta she ducked in through the parlor winder. 'Don't hurt him, Mr. Jedlick, she says; 'please don't hurt him! "'I'll chaw him up as fine as cat hair and blow him out through my teeth, Jedlick told her.
Jedlick, I don't want you to go raisin' no fuss around here with the guests," she said. "Jedlick!" repeated Taterleg, turning to Lambert with a pained, depressed look on his face. "It sounds like something you blow in to make a noise." The barber's customer was a taller man standing than he was long lying. There wasn't much clearance between his head and the ceiling of the porch.
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