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"'It befalls, however, that doorin' the four or five weeks to follow the acquittal of that homicide Shoestring, an' while Waco Anderson an' a quorum of the committee is away teeterin' about in their own affairs, the calaboose gets filled up with two white men and either four or five Mexicans I can't say the last for shore, as I ain't got a good mem'ry for Mexicans.
Say, I've been in at two or three acts like this before, and I gen'rally notice that at about such a stage they play that card, the wife and kid. Your real tough citizen don't, nor your real gent, they shuts their mouths and takes what's comin' to 'em, but Mr. Weakback has a sudden rush of mem'ry about the folks at home, and squeals like a pup with his tail shut in the door.
I used to note old Jeffords hibernatin' about the Oriental over in Tucson, I shore reckons he's procrastinatin' about thar yet, if the Great Sperit ain't done called him in. As I says, old Jeffords is that long among the Apaches back in Cochise's time that the mem'ry of man don't run none to the contrary.
Insidious voice that will not grant my plea, The mem'ry of thy pleasures dost remain: Oxonian-Cantabs club; blue-lit Gaiety! "What he needs is a permanent permit to patronize the opium den the Government runs here for the Chinese," said Hobson. "He's off his dope." "Just a minute," continued the consul. "He claims to be a lord and a millionaire. Here's the letter.
"Well, if Miss Fenler had been here she'd have had forty fits," cried Vera Vane, "but, Marcus, what they don't know won't worry them, and you needn't tell them." "And Marcus, you can forget all about the racket before you get home," said Elf. "Shore, Miss, I's got a powerful short mem'ry. Gid 'ap!" "Dorothy Dainty cheered as loud as any of us," said Arabella Correyville.
"Then the grog, boys the grog, boys, bring hither," sang the Creole. "Fill it up true to the brim. May the mem'ry of Nelson ne'er wither Nor the star of his glory grow dim." There were rummers standing on the tables, and now and then a drinking-brother would break the sugar-knobs in his liquor with a glass stirrer, or take a deep draught of the brown jorum that steamed before him.
"I'se got mizzable mem'ry, and I don't justly 'member," was Sam's answer; "but I reckons he feel berry queer and choky berry." "That's exactly my case, so you may venture to tell," Hugh said; and getting his face close to that of the young man, Sam whispered: "She say, 'Tell Massah Hugh I I You's sure you's dyin'?"
Sech is human nacher onrestrained, an' the same, while deplorable, is not s'prisin'. "But this yere Olson I has in my mem'ry don't have no sech manly feelin's as goes with a gun play. Olson is that cowardly he's even furtive; an' for a low-flung measly game let me tell you-all what Olson does. It's shorely ornery.
Then, calm and trustful in spirit, transported in the freshness of a new-born life, you could sing with a ravished heart, "I am my Lord's, and he is mine: He drew me and I followed on Charm'd to confess the voice divine." These were precious seasons. "How sweet their mem'ry still!" Then came an hour of tender, impressive, and almost awful interest.
The winds breathe low, the withering leaf Scarce whispers from the tree, So gently flows the parting breath, When good folks cease to be. How beautiful on all the hills, The crimson light is shed; 'Tis like the peace the Christian gives, To mourners round his bed. How mildly on the wandering cloud, The sunset beam is cast, 'Tis like the mem'ry left behind, When loved ones breathe their last.
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