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Shake hands with Lon Pelly but I guess you met him, over to Antelope. You needn't to mind the rest of these guys. They're harmless." "I don't want to interrupt " began Bartley. "Set right in!" they invited in chorus. "We're just listenin' to Cheyenne preachin' his own funeral sermon." Bartley seated himself in the doorway of the bunk-house. The joshing ceased.
Really I envy you the pleasure of telling how you received those honorable burns; and I'd give something to have a pretty girl tie up my hand in her own dainty kerchief." "Now you're joshing me again, Mr. Winslow. Of course she and her mother felt as if they couldn't do enough for me; but then you know, that's the way with the women folks.
Supply a few footnotes." "I've been fired." Jimmy sat up. This was no imaginary trouble, no mere malaise of the temperament. It was concrete, and called for sympathy. "I'm awfully sorry," he said. "No wonder you aren't rollicking. How did it happen?" "That half-portion Bill Taft came joshing me about my beezer till it got something fierce," explained Jerry.
"Now, Amanda," he pleaded sweetly, "don't get huffy, please! I want you in a good humor. I have something great to tell you. Can't you take a bit of joshing? Of course, it's fine in you to defend your old friends. But I didn't really mean to say anything mean about Martin. You do get hot so easily." "It must be my red-hair-temper," she said, laughing.
"Have the committee on irrigation attended to you yet?" "I don't know; I have registered," she faltered. He laughed, and she blushed uncomfortably. "Oh, pardon me," he said, "I must go slow with my slang; you've had only a few days to learn it. I'm just joshing the weakness of the lemonade the Associations give us. Let's try some, though; shall we?" They made their way to the lemonade booth.
Having made the proper noises to express his amazement at this astounding phenomenon, Dick waved her theme by him as though he were an arbitrary traffic policeman, and, so to speak, beckoned forward his own traffic. "I'm absorbed, Aunt Catherine," he assured her, "I really am. All my friends are joshing me oh, I see the humor in it and I don't care.
Cadwaller, you remember you are to remain at the Fort two days so that the charges brought by White Horse may be investigated." "What?" exclaimed Mr. Cadwaller. "Wait for them blank blank devils? Say, Inspector, you don't mean that?" "You heard me promise the Indians," said the Inspector. "Why, yes. Mighty smart, too! But say, you were jest joshing, weren't you?" "No, Sir," replied the Inspector.
"Are yuh so new to the country that it's anything of a treat?" he asked guardedly. "Yes, I'm new. I'm what you people call a pilgrim. Don't you do it with one hand? I thought oh, yes! You hold the reins between your firm, white teeth while you roll " "Lady, I never travelled with no show," Andy protested mildly and untruthfully. Was she just joshing? Or didn't she know any better?
The comment that went with it was warm and appreciative, so much so in fact that, while the boys were not wholly displeased with it, they felt, as Joe expressed it, that the reporter was "spreading it on too thick" and feared that they would have to undergo no end of "joshing" from their mates.
We can call a meeting this afternoon and send our telegram to-night," said Romper. "Right-o; good suggestion," said Jimmy. "And I really think we should submit the whole thing to Mr. Ford and get his opinion before we take definite action. If some one is joshing us, he'll be able to see through it all right." But subsequent events proved conclusively that the letter was not a joke.
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