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Updated: June 26, 2025
The man arose with more than usual alacrity. "I'll see that he is there " he declared "it's as much as we can do to live on what they makes, an' I don't want no dockin' for any sickness if I can he'p it." Willis, a pale over-worked lad, was down with tonsillitis. Jud heard the father and mother in an angry dispute. She was trying to persuade him to let the boy stay at home.
We mustn't let Joe do it." Joe had already attempted to rise and start after his wives. But in the roar of laughter that followed he sat down and began to weep again for Liza. It was nearly midnight. Only Travis, Charley Biggers and Jud remained sober enough to talk. Charley was telling of Tilly and her wondrous beauty.
You seen Jud Hopkin's roan go by them fancy Coles mares? Well, well, it done my heart good! This gent Coles comes out of the East to teach us poor ignorant ranchers what right hoss flesh should be. He's going to auction off them half dozen mares after the race. Well, sir, I wouldn't give fifty dollars a head for 'em.
All our winter wood to run the mill is there an' we can't start into cordin' till it's surveyed an' the deed's passed. Sorry to hurry you" Clay promised to start at daylight and Jud left. He looked at his watch. It was late. He would like to tell Helen about it he said aloud: "Making a hundred dollars a week. If I could only keep up that I'd I'd " He blushed.
Simon Betts was not a man of many words. He smoked in the corner, stopping now and then to knock the ashes from his pipe, or to put some brief query. Jud and Ump had come in from the old man's log stable, throwing their saddles down by the door and spreading the bridles out on the hearth so that the iron bits would be warm in the morning. "How will the day be to-morrow?"
Ashes are easier to handle than sticks and half ruined pieces of furniture. As long as it had to come, I guess it's a good thing that it was such a hot blaze." The work of clearing away, therefore, which had to be done, of course, before any actual building could be begun, was soon accomplished. "We're going to build just the way Tom Pratt did," said Jud Harkness.
This gave Jud Carpenter, standing near, a chance to get in his mill talk. "I tell you, Joe Hopper," he said, slapping the man on the back, "that mill is a great thing for the mothers an' fathers of this little settlement. What 'ud we do if it warn't for our chillun?" "You're talkin now " said Joe hopefully.
And there was Ump with his thumbs against the fetlocks of the Bay Eagle, and Jud trying to get his copper skin into the half-dried shirt, and the hugged El Mahdi staring away at the brown hills as though he were everlastingly bored. I climbed up into the saddle to keep from executing a fiddler's jig, and thereby proving that I suffered deeply from the curable disease of youth.
"Be seated, Upholder of Heaven, Chief-cook-an'-bottle-washer in the Kingdom to come! An' what may have sent the angel of the Lord to honor us with another visit?" The old woman's fighting feathers arose instantly: "The same that sent 'em to Sodom an' Gomarrer, suh," she replied. "Ah," said Jud apologetically, "an' I hope we won't smell any brimstone to-night."
Now, Bud Billins, you jes' go in there now an' go to tendin' to that slubbin' machine, an' don't you so much as look at a cat twixt now an' next Christmas." Bud needed no further admonition. He bolted for the door and was soon silently at work. But Jud Carpenter did not finish his work by starting the slubbing machine. Samantha Carewe, one of the main loom women, was absent.
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