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So he strode into the new camp, walking all around, and quite free with his hearty compliments concerning the fine way Owen and Steve had done their part of the business. "But looky here," burst out the impatient Steve, after a while, "we're wasting time, you know. Some of us might as well be up the river gathering a few pecks of mussels." "T-t-that's so," declared Toby.
"Hole on yere a minute, boy! Lemme tek' nuther look at dat thing." He took it, then burst forth with a volley of derisive chuckling. "Huh, huh, well ef dat ain't de beatenes' part of it all!" wheezed Daddy Hannah. "Red Hoss, you sho' muster been in one big hurry to git away f'um dat spot whar you kilt your rabbit and ketched your charm. Looky yere at dis yere shank j'int!
Banged an' ragged around between decks, neither black nor white too good for the natives an' not good enough for the whites. Princes on their mother's side, they been robbed o' their hereditary rights by a gang o' native roughnecks, while their own father loafs alongshore in San Francisco an' enjoys himself." "Looky here, Scraggs," Mr. McGuffey struck in ominously. "Ain't you said about enough?
"Why THAT'S all right. Miss Hooker she tole me, PARTICULAR, that her uncle Hornback " "Great guns! is HE her uncle? Looky here, you break for that light over yonder-way, and turn out west when you git there, and about a quarter of a mile out you'll come to the tavern; tell 'em to dart you out to Jim Hornback's, and he'll foot the bill.
To-night we're rich as that fellow Crocus; anyhow I am, an' you're haided that way. And both of us have cleared our names to boot. Ain't you got any red blood in that big body of yore's?" "I'll drop in to the Delmonico and get a bite, then ride out to the Jackpot." "You will not!" protested the cattleman. "Looky here, Dave. It's a showdown. Have you got anything against me?"
Without abating his manifestation of entire disapproval, George produced a box of cigarettes, permitted P. Sybarite to select one, and helped himself. They shared a match, even as brothers might, before honest indignation escaped the grim portals of the shipping clerk's mouth. "Sa-ay!" he exploded "looky here: where've you been all night?" "Ah-h!"
His discoveries started almost immediately, as his excited words announced: "Here's where he pushed back the brush, as you c'n see for yourselves. Yes, and there's aplenty of footprints besides. Looky where he knelt down, because here's the mark of his knees as plain as anything. Now what do you say, Toby Jones? Is the laugh on me, after all?" Toby had to confess that it did not look that way.
The giant smiled uneasily: "I'm keepin' out o' the sun an' a-takin' keer o' my health," he said, and his eyes dropped hungrily to the corn pone and fried fish, but the boy shook his head sturdily. "You can't git nothin' to eat from me, Babe Honeycutt." "Now, looky hyeh, Jason " "Not a durn bite," said the boy firmly, "even if you air my mammy's brother.
"And served him damned well right!" broke in Ham Sandwich. "Looky here, boys " From the constable: "Order! Order, gentlemen!" A voice: "Did your uncle know what you was up to?" "No, he didn't." "Did he give you the matches, sure enough?" "Yes, he did; but he didn't know what I wanted them for."
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