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"'An' there'll be no monkeyin', Governor; you'll take me down to a bank yourself an' put the money in my hand? "'I promise you that, I assured him. "But he was not entirely quiet in his mind about it. He shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, and his soft rubber nose worked. "'Now, Governor, he said, 'I'm leery about jokers I gotta be. I don't want any string to this money.
Or do you think that's a kind of fiddlin' ambition for a fellow? I was brought up on a farm. And then monkeyin' round with silks! I don't know. What do you think? Myrtle Cass says you're awfully educated." "I am. Awfully. Tell me: Have the boys made fun of your ambition?" She was seventy years old, and sexless, and more advisory than Vida Sherwin. "Well, they have, at that.
If there's anything doin', why, I'm game, but such monkeyin'! There was that picture-machine idiot workin' the crank as if he was shellin' a thicket-full of Injuns with a Gatling, and his fool cap turned round with the lid down the back of his neck, and me and Collie, the only sensible-actin' ones of the lot, because we was actin' natural, jest restin'. I got sick and tired.
"Now, this luxurious-lookin' rear-admiral's rail-fence is at present connected with a tapped power circuit, or a light circuit, I don't know which. All I know is that it's carryin' about a twenty-eight-hundred alternatin' current. And just to show that it's good and ready to eat up anything that tries monkeyin' round it, watch this!"
He'll keep monkeyin' around this territory until he meets up with some feller like me, with a bad temper and a quick gun hand, who'll make him good the same way we useter make good Injuns. Hullo, steady!"
And as I attempted to speak, he suddenly tore off his cap and pointed to his head. His hair was white as snow. "That's what come of monkeyin' inter your cursed mountings," he shouted, fiercely. "There's things in there what no Christian oughter see. Lemme alone er I'll bust yer." He shambled on, doubled fists swinging by his side.
"I've been wanting for a fortnight to see you stand up" Mac turned fiercely "against Samuel David MacCann." "Come on! I'm in no mood for monkeyin'!" "Nor I. I realise, MacCann, we've come to a kind of a crisis. Things in this camp are either going a lot better, or a lot worse, after to-day." "There's nothing wrong, if you quit asking dirty Jesuits to sit down with honest men."
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