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Updated: September 23, 2025
"Now please listen an' beggin' your pardon jest turn thet deaf Mormon ear aside, an' let me talk clear an' plain in the other. I went around to the saloons an' the stores an' the loafin' places yesterday. All your riders are in. There's talk of a vigilance band organized to hunt down rustlers. They call themselves 'The Riders. Thet's the report thet's the reason given for your riders leavin' you.
Again Captain Hiram's conscience smote him. "Dear! dear!" he exclaimed. "And I've been loafin' around the depot with Sol Berry and the rest of 'em instead of stayin' home with you, Sophrony. I KNEW I was doin' wrong, but I didn't realize " "Course you didn't, Hiram. I'm glad you got a few minutes' rest, after bein' up with him half the night. I do wish the doctor was home, though.
"Oi meets genelmen on the road," he said, "as arsks me why Oi don't gaow to wurk; a great big upstandin' chap loike you, they sez, loafin' abaht and doin' nothin' why it's disgraiceful! Well, I sez, guv'nor, I sez, 'ow can Oi go to wurk? Oi'm a skilled wurkman, I sez, in me own trade, but Oi'm froze aht by modern machinery.
Or they would say that he wuz shiftless and extravagant a loafin' round in the clouds, when he might go to work or that he might raise the money himself by selling the feathers offen his wings for down pillers or some of the rest of the Gabriel family might help him or something, or other anyway they would propose some way of gittin' out of givin' a cent to Gabriel.
Presently someone asked 'Any boat gone up? 'Yes, sah. 'Was she going fast? 'Oh, so-so loafin' along. 'Now, do you know what boat that was? 'No, sah. 'Why, uncle, that was the "Eclipse." 'No! Is dat so? Well, I bet it was cause she jes' went by here a-SPARKLIN'!
Moriarty, of course, he 's loafin' in the store; lis'n him now, laughin' fit to break his neck at some of his own gosh foolishness. I'll shove your horses in the paddick. I say! ain't they fell-away awful?" "Yes; the season's telling on them. Now will you look after Pup, like a good chap? Here's his chain. I want to keep him fresh for travelling." "Right.
"Well, ain't it better than loafin' around yer billets all day, thinkin' an' cursin' an' wishin' ye was home?" spoke up the man who sat the other side, pounding down the tobacco in his pipe with a thick forefinger. "It makes me sick, trampin' round this way in ranks all day with the goddam frawgs starin' at us an'..." "They're laughin' at us, I bet," broke in another voice.
"I jist started her on ahead to git supper and milk the cows," said Mrs. Means. "A'n't a-goin' to have her loafin' here all day." "Constable, recall her. This court can not adjourn until she returns!" Hannah had gone but a little way, and was soon in the presence of the court, trembling for fear of some new calamity.
"What are you boys loafin' here for when I need help in the dining-room? Can either of you sling hash?" The fat man derricked himself out of the chairs. "We can. L-lead us to the job, ma'am." So it happened that Blister, in a white apron, presently stood before the Governor ready to take orders. The table was strewn with used dishes and food, débris left there by previous diners.
"Wal, I reckon it wasn't trouble, but every time I took a peg at some sneak I sort of broke out sweatin' cold." "You shot at them?" "Sure I shot when I seen any loafin' along in the dark. Two of them shot back at me, an' after thet I wasn't particular to aim high.... Reckon I'm about dead for sleep." "I'll relieve you to-night," replied Kurt. "Jerry, doesn't the wheat look great?" "Wal, I reckon.
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