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He hesitated, harking back for his climax. "Jing!" he exclaimed, "it's the durndest thing to put a finish on a piece of po'try! You get to goin' and she goes fine. Then you commence to feel that you're comin' to the end and nacherally you asks yourself what's the end goin' to be like.
The sheriff of the county was obdurate, deaf to all intents and purposes. He shook his head glumly when it was suggested that she might remain with the child until his mother should arrive in response to the telegram already sent. "Might poison him Indians are queer cattle! Mocking-birds will do that if the young ones are caged, through the bars, by jing!"
Share my Johnnie with her? Not much. She stole that there boy from me by force. By Jing! I'll take him from her without liftin' a finger. Ye see, Johnnie is mighty apt to disappint the widder. Sometimes more often than not Johnnie is disappintin'! I allus jedge the pore boy by contrairies. Most o' men when they marry air apt to forgit them as raised 'em, but Johnnie'll pine fer me. I know it.
He was uncertain whether he was giving his own baptismal name or somebody's else. "By Jing! No, I don't know you, but you sure are the dead spit of a fellow I do know!" said Bill. "Well, he has done me the favor of introducing me to you, anyway," said Prather, who had a remarkably ingratiating smile. "I would like a place to stop while I take a look around. Is there a hotel?"
Abe asked as he and Samson were unhitching. "Yes, sir." "By jing!" the slim giant exclaimed. "I reckon you feel like throwin' off yer harness an' takin' a roll in the grass." The tavern was the only house in New Salem with stairs in it. Stairs so steep, as Samson writes, that "they were first cousins to the ladder." There were four small rooms above them.
"By jing, Bill, we'd better be moving, I believe. That ball took a lock of hair off by my ear!" "The devil it did!" Everything being still at the moment, the 'Squire heard this scrap of conversation between the thieves, and called out: "Yes, you had better leave, or I'll put the next ball through one of your hearts!"
He was recounting, with occasional profanity, the mishaps of his trip, beginning with the late train. "Any passengers?" Kate heard the stranger ask. "Two women c'n y' beat it? One of 'em a girl for Doubleday's." "What can a girl be wanting at Doubleday's?" "D'no. Came off the train tonight." "The Double-draw is out." "Jing!" exclaimed Bradley, "it was there an hour ago."
"Well, if Sylvia Manning marries you, I'll be a bachelor all my days, for I'll never dare imagine I know anything about a woman's soul; though I'm prepared at this hour of grace to stake my career that that girl's soul is worthy of her very perfect body." Puffing a good deal, Fenley contrived to overhaul his "cousin." "By jing, Sylvia, you can step out a bit," he said.
It does him good to be taken down a notch now and then." "I ain't never seen nobody that could take him daown." "Well, we'll have to let him down a little to-morrow." "Don't yeou believe it. Yeou fellers are caountin' on carryin' off that game, ain't ye? Waal, by jing! ye'll have to go some if ye do." "Our boys can go some.
I should like to call him so. I admire him." And I went on to tell of what he had done at Vicksburg, leaving out, however, my instrumentality in having him sent north. The President used almost Sherman's words. "By Jing!" he exclaimed. If it wasn't for them, the South would have quit long ago."
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