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Hawley ain't so young as he was, an' mor'n that, he's got rheumatism in his arm. So one mornin' he say to me 'Ebenezer, he say, 'I reckon you'll have to take on the windin' up. My hand is gettin' shaky. Well, sir, had he given me the management of a railroad I couldn't have been prouder. That's why, when Seventeen begun branchin' out for herself, I was so 'specially upset.
"Hain't you larnt her how to read an' write an' cipher?" asked Teague. "I started in," said Mrs. Poteet, "but, Lord! I hain't more'n opened a book tell she know'd mor'n I dast to know ef I wuz gwine to die fer it. Hit'll take somebody lots smarter'n' stronger'n me." Teague laughed, and then relapsed into seriousness. After a while he called Sis.
Starling coldly. "I was real put out about my preserves." "Have you had dinner?" "I never found I could live 'thout eating." "Who got dinner for you, and cleared away?" "Nobody. I did it myself." "For the men and all!" "Well, they don't count to live without eatin', no mor'n I do," said Mrs. Starling with a short laugh. "And you did it with one hand!"
That there Jennings has got the ear-marks of Oregon printed on him like a governmint stamp. Every time I see that putterin' web-foot's tracks in the dust it makes me hot. He don't know how to put up this plant no mor'n I do and you'll find it out. If an Oregonian'd be offered a job teachin' dead languages in a college he'd make a bluff at doin' it if he couldn't write his own name.
"Mor'n twenty years she stuck to me and struggled along by my side. She never give in.
"You don't see any of the bunch going around bareheaded. Only women and babies do that." "The bunch goes bareheaded when they get their hats blowed off in the creek," the Kid pointed out unmoved. "I've seen you lose your hat mor'n once, old timer. That's nothing."
"It weren't anything that bit me, only I want a doll," and away she cried again. "Huh!" says Jackie, "that's nothing. You don't want a doll any mor'n I want a soldier," and he sat down beside her and began to cry, too. And after they had cried for a long time, maybe four hours or two, they stopped. "I tell you what!" says Jackie. "What?" says Peggs, drying her eyes on her pinafore.
"But look here, Ware," insisted Bob, "it's all very well to talk like that. But suppose a man actually has his gun down on you. How can you 'shoot out or bluff out'?" Ware suddenly became serious. "No man," said he, "can hold a gun on you for over ten seconds without his eyes flickering. It's too big a strain. He don't let go for mor'n about the hundredth part of a second.
But mayhaps now that ye've gone up in the world, ye'd like to cry off from the bargain?" "But let me finish the campaign by capturin' Philadelphia, and dispersin' Washington's pack of peddlers and jail-birds, which won't take mor'n a fortnight, and then you can't name a day too soon for me, an' I hope not for your daughter. You can't call me gawk any longer, I reckon, Janice?"
Looks like I ought to 'a' done something mor'n sit there like a bump on a log while he walked off with the gold." His cheerful self-satisfaction was under eclipse. The boyish pride of him was wounded. He had not "made good."
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