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Ted Strong had come in from riding around the herd, having inspected it before it was bedded down for the night. He had heard all about the proposed race, and smiled quietly as Ben joshed Bud about the loss of his pony Hatrack on the morrow. He had looked the boy over carefully, and his impression was not pleasant. "I tell yer what, boys," said the old man, when conversation began to lag.
She hadn't ever been in a real thunderstorm before, and she's scared of them. I know that one we had the other day like to of scared her into hysterics. I laughed at her and joshed her out of it." "Didn't she ever say anything about Fred Thurman, then?" Warfield persisted. "Not to me, she didn't.
He discovered that it is easier to be joshed than to josh when you know in your heart you have the joke on the other fellow. He learned the revengefulness of Perkins' nature, old Ted, who was ragged to death when his case on Lillian Arnold developed and who now paid him back with interest. He found how great an object of interest to the co-ed element a man becomes when he is in love.
"After you had told her why it was?" said I. "Before and after. I didn't tell her first, because I felt kind of foolish. Then Tommy went and he killed the bear all right, and she has the skin now. Of course the boys joshed me a heap about gettin' beat by Tommy." "But since she has taken you?" said I. "She ain't said it. But she will when she understands Tommy." I fancied that the lady understood.
They joked the waiter-girls, and joshed one another in noisy good-fellowship, ignoring the slim youth in English riding-suit, who came in with an air of mingled melancholy and timidity and took a seat at the lower corner of the long table. The landlady, tall, thin, worried, and inquisitive, was New England Norcross recognized her type even before she came to him with a question on her lips.
Garry reddened like a beet, and thought he was being joshed, but seeing Phil was serious, they voted it to be so. "Now back to Jennings and the telegraph office, and start the ball rolling for the purchase of some of that land, and then maybe we win a fortune, and again perhaps we don't, but it's worth a chance," said Garry.
"Bet he sneaked up on him," joshed Buck Peters; "did yu ask his pardin, Skinny?" "Ask nuthin'," remarked Red, "he jest nachurly walks up to C 80 an' sez, 'Kin I have the pleasure of ventilatin' yu? an' C So he sez, 'If yu do it easy like, sez he. Didn't he, Thompson?" "They'll be some ventilatin' under th' table if yu fellows don't lemme alone; I'm hungry," complained Skinny.
He had "betched" there would be someone killed, over these Dot sheep; he had predicted trouble of every conceivable kind; and they had laughed at him, swore at him, lied to him, "joshed" him unmercifully, and kept him in a state of chronic indignation, never dreaming that the memory of it would choke them and strike them dumb with that horrible, dull weight in their chests with which men suffer when a woman would find the relief of weeping.
After that I was ignored, to the huge delight of the Tommies, who joshed me unmercifully. They discovered that my middle name was Derby, and they christened me "Darby the Yank." Darby I remained as long as I was with them. Some of the questions the men asked about the States were certainly funny. One chap asked what language we spoke over here. I thought he was spoofing, but he actually meant it.
Once or twice cowboys passed them on the road, big-boned fellows, picturesque in their broad hats, hairy trousers, jingling spurs, and revolver belts, surprisingly like the pictures McTeague remembered to have seen. Everyone of them knew Cribbens, and almost invariably joshed him on his venture. "Say, Crib, ye'd best take a wagon train with ye to bring your dust back."
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