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"But Eb puts in, kind o' eager: "'Lemme lock up the shed it's dark as a hat out there an' you might sprain over your ankle, he says awkward. An' so he done the lockin' up, an' it come over me he liked hevin' that little householdy thing to do. An' then he went off home that is, to where he stopped an' hated it so.
Afterwards, when I inquired very cautiously what he had done about it this was a week or two later he replied, "Shewer, what can ye do with a loafer like that? He has no money, an' lockin' him up won't help his wife an' children any." Thus ended a perfect scene out of Kilkenny.
An' right there," said Hunch impressively, "right there is where yer Uncle Hunch feels a real glimmer in his bean an' goes back. Thin-lips ain't in sight. Yer Uncle Hunch softly heel-taps it upstairs an' finds the darkish guy adoptin' a paper with a fatherly pat, which he slips in his coat pocket. Whereupon whiles he's lockin' the desk drawer ag'in, aforesaid uncle slips downstairs an' out.
If you once threw a leg over that blue roan, I can see where some of us would do some riding." "If I'd been thinkin' of leavin' you, it would 'a' been afore we got here, sheriff." "So it's 'sheriff' now, and not Jim, eh?" "It sure is if you're thinkin' o' lockin' me up. You treated me white back there in El Paso so I'm tellin' you that if you lock me up and I git a chanct, I'll sure vamose."
"Ah, ye can smoke away as much as ye like," cried Roseen impatiently. "See here, Judy, all I want ye to do is to stand over there, by the corner of the haggard, an' watch till Mike comes, an' tell him me grandfather's afther lockin' me up, an' I can't get out this evenin', but the first chanst I have to-morrow I'll run round.
"You don't mean to say she is shut up there?" "Shet up? No: they be too smart for that. But there's plenty ways to shet a young gal's eyes an' ears 'thout lockin' of her up. How'd she know who was in this wagon, even if she seed it from her winders? To be sure, I made myself conspicuous enough, a-whistlin' 'Tramp, tramp, and makin' the horses switch round a good deal.
And he says what makes him feel the meanest is, to think it was his wive's brother that wus up on the other side, and got the nomination. He says it leaves room for talk. And there it is. You can't sue a man for lockin' his own barn-door.
"You don't mean to say she is shut up there?" "Shet up? No: they be too smart for that. But there's plenty ways to shet a young gal's eyes an' ears 'thout lockin' of her up. How'd she know who was in this wagon, even if she seed it from her winders? To be sure, I made myself conspicuous enough, a-whistlin' 'Tramp, tramp, and makin' the horses switch round a good deal.
"Oh they hain't done nothin," replied the landlord, "they ain't nothin but debtors. Dern debtors, I don' like to hev the jailin of em. They hain't got no blood intew em like Sabbath-breakers, an blasphemers, an rapers has. They're weakly, pulin kinder chaps, what thar ain't no satisfaction a lockin up an a knockin roun'. They're dreffle deskerridgin kind o' fellers tew.
De cullud angel, he mighty p'lite, an' he went up an' tuk de hoss, an' when de white angel had got down an' gone in, he went roun' lookin' fur a tree to hitch him to. But when he went back agin to de gate, Sent Peter had jus' shet it, and was lockin' it up wid a big padlock.
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