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An' when he thinks that way, why, I don't guess he figgers to find bad wher' he reckoned ther' was only good. Howsum, it kind o' seems to me human nature's as li'ble to set a feller cryin' as laffin' most times. This thing come over that Lightfoot gang. We got most of 'em, and those we got if they wa'an't pumped full of lead out of hand they was hanged. Sort o' queer, too, the way we got 'em.

I allow ther's folks guesses dollars talks. Wal, I'm guessin' they just holler. Make the wad big enough and ther' ain't nuthin' you can't buy from a wheat binder to a royal princess with a crown o' jools. The only thing you're li'ble to have trouble over is the things Natur' fancies handin' you fer nix. That an' hoss sense.

In consequence we used them about twice a year, when the minister came. "Of course," she said, "I ain't askin' you what happened over there or why he wanted to see you. But I give you fair warnin' that, if I don't, Lute will. Lute's so stuffed with curiosity that he's li'ble to bust the stitches any minute." "I'll tell you both, at supper," I said. "Um-hm," said Dorinda.

"It don't never do takin' chances with kids o' that age. Chances is bum things, anyway. Y'see, kids ken ketch such a heap o' things. Ther's bile, an' measles, an' dropsy, an' cancer, an' hydryfoby, an' all kinds o' things. They's li'ble to ketch 'em as easy as gettin' flies wi' molasses. An' some o' them is ter'ble bad. Ever had hydryfoby? No?

You ain't a ma'ied man, is yer?" I assured him that I was not married. "Well, sir, I gwine gi'e you my advice. An' I'm a man o' 'spe'unce. I been ma'ied three times, an' of cose I done consider'ble co'tin' off'n an' on wid all three, not countin' sech p'omiskyus co'tin' roun' as any widder gemman is li'ble ter do, an' I gwine gi'e you some good advice.

Asaph's and all the other forts, responded as one man to that cry from Bryan's." "Did you leave the women and children in Fort Houston?" asked Dudley. "No, indeed," answered Rogers before Gilcrest could speak. "'Twuzn't safe. Houston's wuz li'ble to be attacked in our absence.

An' I ain't sayin' I'm tickled at wastin' such good stuff. But somehow I guess we've come to a showdown, Chum; you an' me. If I stick to booze, I'm li'ble to see you looking at me that queer way an' sidlin' away from me all the time; till maybe at last you'd get plumb sick of me for keeps, an' light out. An' I'd rather have YOU than the booze, since I can't have both of you.

Arizona turned a doubtful eye on the speaker, and quietly spat over his horse's shoulder. "Guess your langwidge ain't mine," he said thoughtfully; "but if you're meanin' you're goin' to git your belly full, I calc'late you're li'ble to git like a crop-bound rooster wi' the moult 'fore you're through. An' I sez, why?" Tresler shrugged. "Why does a man do anything?" he asked indifferently.

The sight of it filled him with cruel amusement, but he kept a serious face. "I 'lows that should bring James to his senses," he observed, as he handed it back to its owner. Scipio read his answer as approval, and warmed towards him. "I'd say so," he said, returning his antiquity to his pocket. "You see, a gun's li'ble to rattle a feller like James.

I told you to put on the red one." Kenelm fingered his tie. "I I cal'late I must have forgot, Hannah," he stammered. "I never noticed. This one's all right, ain't it?" "All right! It'll have to be. You can't change it now. But, for goodness sakes, look out it stays on. The elastic's all worn loose and it's li'ble to drop into your tea or anywheres else.