Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 10, 2025
Settin' that time-lock jaw of his and lightin' a fresh perfecto, Old Hickory grabs his hat; and off we go, with me trailin' along reluctant. His first move is to hail a taxi. "Just goin' to cruise around town casual in the hopes of spottin' him on the fly, eh?" I asks. "Hardly," says Mr. Ellins.
"That ain't all they'll do," sez I. "Chances are they'll take it out on the cattle, an' they may they may even go so far as to get the cattle to cut up until the day shift has to turn out an' help quiet 'em." "Is that the reason?" he asked, his face lightin' up. "I don't know for sure, but that's my first guess," sez I. He looked down at his feet an' I looked him over.
And Nate Tierney, he says 't water an' heat an' lightin' is goin' to be jest as free, in our town, as sunshine an' air is everywhere. That's what Nate says, and if it's true it's a mighty big load off 'n us poor folks, and that's certain!"
Take that fool gun away from him." I put my hand on Monody's an' he loosened his hold on the gun an' took hold of my hand, his face lightin' up contented. Then I handed the gun to one o' the boys an' took tight hold of his right arm while the doctor started to unbutton his shirt. Ol' Monody's eyes opened with a jerk, an' the fever had left 'em. "Happy, Happy!" he pleaded.
"Oui, yis, mes boys; and there's rain, and tunder, and lightin'," added Henri, pointing to a dark cloud which was seen rising on the horizon ahead of them. "It'll be rain," remarked Joe; "but there's no thunder in the air jist now. We'll make for yonder clump o' bushes and lay by till it's past."
If they kin hang that last deal onto me and you know what I mean why, your Uncle Ed'll sure have to take the long trail. And I aim to keep a-ridin' in the sun for a spell yet. We're gittin' clost to town. Mebby we can drop off easy and sift out of sight without any fuss. Then we got a chanct to change our clothes and git rid of that dough. They'll be lightin' the lamps right soon.
'An' whin ye go back where ye come fr'm an' set down with th' rest iv th' sages to wondher whether a man cud possibly go fr'm Richmond to Boston in a week, tell thim, I says, 'that in their day they r-run a corner grocery an' to-day, says I, 'we're op'ratin' a sixteen-story department store an' puttin' in ivrything fr'm an electhric lightin' plant to a set iv false teeth, I says.
He escaped from them for the moment in the probable inference: "I presume he was lookin' for his daughters. Didn't you know," he turned to Northwick, with a sort of apologetic reproach, "lightin' matches that way in the house, here, you might set it on fire, and you'd be sure to make people think there was somebody there, anyhow?"
"Well, yer see, chile, I wuz er lightin' uv my pipe, an' er fixin' uv er new stim in it, an' I nuber notus wen de wagins went off.
"'Don't I give you four stacks of reds an' a pony, he says, 'to reepair to that murderer an' floor-manage his obsequies? An' don't I promise you eight stacks more when you reports with that outcast's y'ears an' ha'r, as showin' good faith? "'C'rrect; every word, says Curly Ben, lightin' a seegyar an then leanin' his elbows on the bar, a heap onmoved.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking