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When I go among them, I don't try to show off my grammar, or talk about the Constitution, or how many volts there is in electricity or make it appear in any way that I am better educated than they are. They wouldn't stand for that sort of thing. No; I drop all monkeyshines. So you see, I've got to be several sorts of a man in a single day, a lightnin' change artist, so to speak.
"I know," exclaimed the agent "I know you had; and very likely that's the reason you were struck. Nothin's more likely to attract lightnin' than worthless rods." "How do you know they were worthless?" "Why, I was drivin' by yer in the spring, and I seen them rods, and I says to myself, 'That barn'll be struck some time, but there's no use in tryin' to convince Mr. Keyser; so I didn't call.
The speed soon brought the horseman within hail. As he neared the Rio Pecos Valley, he rose in his stirrups, and swung his hat in an excited manner. At that moment Fred recognized him as Sut Simpson, the scout, whose voice rang out as startling and clear as that of a stentor. "The Apaches are coming! The Apaches are coming! Lone Wolf will be down on yer quicker'n lightnin'!"
Nach'erl, bein' jest even up, I done thought o' everything I been fergettin'. Hit all come ter me ez plain ez a streak o' lightnin'. What it was Kit Carson told me I know now, but no one else shall know. No, not even you, Miss Molly. I kain't tell ye, so don't ask. "Now I'm goin' on a long journey, an' a resky one; I kain't tell ye no more. I reckon I'll never see ye agin. So good-by."
A lightnin' thrower is a few too many. They'd ruther be nigh a rattlesnake." The scouts had no sleep that night. They sat down by the trail side leaning against a log and lighted their pipes. "You 'member Bill Scott?" Solomon whispered. "Yes. We spent a night in his house." "He were a mean cuss. Sold rum to the Injuns. I allus tol' him it were wrong but my God A'mighty!
"Gone berryin'!" screamed Mrs. Babcock, and the other women echoed her. "Yes'm." "When did she go?" "Right after dinner." "Right after dinner, an' she ain't got home yet! Out in this awful tempest! Well, she'll be killed. You'll never see her again, that's all. A berry pasture is the most dangerous place in creation in a thunder-shower. Out berryin' in all this hail an' thunder an' lightnin'!"
Why, sir, he thess took one look at the gate an' then he cut an' run hard ez he could limped acrost the yard thess like a flash o' zig-zag lightnin' an' 'fore anybody could stop him, he had clumb to the tip top o' the butter-bean arbor clumb it thess like a cat an' there he set, a-swingin' his feet under him, an' laughin', the rain thess a-streakin' his hair all over his face.
If they hear us afore we're ready to shoot, the lass'll be tomahawked quicker'n lightnin'. If they don't suspicion us, when the right moment comes you shoot Brandt, yell louder'n you ever did afore, leap amongst 'em, an' cut down the first Injun thet's near you on your way to Helen. Swing her over your arm, an' dig into the woods." "Well?" asked Jonathan when Wetzel finished.
He's chain lightnin', ole man, an' you better be sure of yer holt." "I'll give all dere is on him if you'll help, Dick!" said Pete. Mr. Dootleby took his watch, his gold pencil, and a dollar or so in change from his pockets, and tossed them toward Dick. "That's all I've got," he said. "Now, let us alone." Dick slid the coins in his pocket and carefully examined the gold watch.
Wonnell," Roxy had the presence of mind to say, "take care you tell the truth, for my sake! Aunt Hominy is gone, with all the kitchen children, and Mr. Phoebus suspects you!" "Great lightnin' bugs!" Jimmy Phoebus cried. "The niggers stole, an' the dog dead, too?" "I 'spect Jedge Custis sold 'em, Jimmy," Jack Wonnell pleaded, twisting out of the bay captain's hands.
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