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But whatever it was, it was there evident in Pete's eye as he turned and glanced at Andy an intenseness of purpose, not manifest in any outward show or form. "You sure tamed him," said Andy admiringly. "Only for this mornin'," acknowledged Pete. "To-morrow mornin' he'll go to it ag'in. But I aim to sweat some of it out of him afore we hit the Blue. Got the makin's?"
The boy, followed by the horse, began to walk a slow circle not far from where we sat. Suddenly the boy addressed Blister. "Say, loan me the makin's, will you, pal?" he drawled. From his hip pocket Blister produced some tobacco in a stained muslin bag and a wad of crumpled cigarette papers. These he tossed toward the boy.
He exaggerated the humility with which he walked at the heel of his conqueror, while the extravagant servility which marked his obedience to his hired man made that individual grin. "You'll do. You've got the makin's in you!" Del threw down the tools and scanned the run of the snow-surface carefully. "Here, take the axe, shinny up the hill, and lug me down some skookum dry wood."
"An' if you married me," she continued, transfixing the terrified skipper with a fat forefinger, "I s'pose you'd be wantin' me t' split the fish you cotched. Oh, you would, would you? Oh, my! But I'll have you t' know, Skipper Thomas Lovejoy," with a sudden and alarming change of voice, "that I've the makin's of a better ship's-master than you. An' by the Lord Harry!
I'm goin' to ast you to turn that bussock-headed mule you're drivin' right around, and hit back for the Creek. You do this, Zip, an' I'll tell you what I'm goin' to do. I ain't no sentimental slob. I ain't got the makin's in me of even a store-mussed angel. See? But if you do this I swar to you right here I'm goin' to see your Jessie right.
You never saw the day you had the makin's of a prospector in you." "Let other men do the work and take the risk while I take the gain, and it's little I care for your opinion," rejoined Dewing. "And you would do well to keep your hands from my throat when my hand is in my coat pocket as is the case at this present instant." "This thing has gone far enough," said Zurich.
"Gawd knows," said Johnny. Then added impulsively, "I don't expect to go on living here always. I'm going to beat it, soon as I get my airplane repaired, and " He was on the point of saying, "when I learn to fly it." But pride and his experience with the Rolling R boys checked him in time. The hobo looked hungrily at the "makin's" Johnny was pulling from the pocket of his shirt.
Since he did not believe in the indiscriminate shooting in vogue on the frontier, he was willing this youngster should worry a bit. "Not one chance for him in a hundred," he replied brusquely. "That's good. I'd hate to have to do it all over again. Have you got the makin's with you, Billie?" Clanton asked evenly. "I've got a plain and simple word for such killings," the doctor said, flushing.
"Whin I was inviladed for the dysent'ry to India, I sez to the Lift'nint, 'Sorr, sez I, 'you've the makin's in you av a great man; but, av you'll let an ould sodger spake, you're too fond of the-ourisin'. He shuk hands wid me and sez, 'Hit high, hit low, there's no plasin' you, Mulvaney.
"It comes straight off the hip, an' it calls for a straight answer. What have I spoke to her? Nothin'! What's between us? Nothin' but the makin's! Next, touchin' myself: Since sixteen I've been kickin' up the dust o' the earth till my home is anywhar immediately convenient.
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