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It makes me feel almost young again, an' I that old an' wo' out. I've had a hard life thar's no disputin' it, marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe." "Thar's mighty few that gits the one that's meant for 'em," said Reuben, "that's sure enough. If we did we'd stop movin' forward, I suppose, an' begin to balk.
"We'd better keep the water in the kitchen runnin' to-night. The pipes'll freeze." Tick-tock. Tick. Tock. She had not moved, still sitting staring above the top of his head. He slid out his watch, yawning. "Well, if you think it's too raw for the movin' pictures, Hanna, I guess I'll be movin' up to bed. I got to be down to meet a five-o'clock shipment of fifty bales to-morrow.
But before I gets there, I sees that pack o' hounds swarm over th' fence into th' road, an' purty soon, there is Bull, right in their midst, as th' feller says. "For th' rest of th' way I does nothin' but pray, an' see visions of th' biggest dog fight that ever hit Montana, but I keeps movin' rapid, an' when I gets on th' spot, there's Bull, right in th' middle of th' pack.
"Ma'am," he said, hesitatingly, "you you don't cal'late there's anything I can do to to help, is there? Anything in the packin' or movin' or anything like that?" "No, thank you, Mr. Winslow. The packing was very simple." "Er yes, ma'am. . . . Yes, ma'am."
Somewhere he had lost the "squaw ax," and dry wood was inaccessible under snow. If it were not for Sprudell, he knew that he could still plod on. His deep breath of exhaustion was a groan as he floundered back and shook the inert figure with all his might. "Git up!" he shouted. "You must keep movin'! Do you want to lay right down and die?" "Lemme be!"
There was only two wardrobe trunks, a hat trunk, and a steamer trunk, and the men unloads 'em all. "Hal-lup!" says I, when they staggers in with the last one. "Who's movin' in?" Seems it's the few little things that Lucy Lee needs for the week-end. "I've told her to send for her maid," says Vee. "It was stupid of me not to think of that before, knowing Lucy Lee."
I heard somebody movin' downstairs and " Shadrach grunted. "Isaiah!" he exclaimed. "Walkin' in his sleep again, I'll bet a dollar!" "No, no! It ain't Isaiah. Isaiah ain't walked in his sleep since he was a child." "Well, he's pretty nigh his second childhood now, judgin' by the way he acts sometimes. It was Isaiah of course! Who else would be walkin' around downstairs this time of night?"
"Dere ain't no loose-box for de simple child o' nature on de Belt Line, wid de Paris comin' in an' de Teutonic goin' out, an' de trucks an' de coupe's sayin' things, an' de heavy freight movin' down fer de Boston boat 'bout t'ree o'clock of an August afternoon, in de middle of a hot wave when de fat Kanucks an' Western horses drops dead on de block.
Notice how his body is drawed up, an' his tail is slowly movin' side to side, 'cause he thinks he's goin' to sink his claws in tender flesh the next second! Wa'al that panther makes me think uv this here Spaniard, Alvarez. I think we kin look fur jest about ez much kindness an' gentlin' from him ez a fawn could expect from a hungry panther." "You are certainly right, Jim," said Paul. "Uv course!
"That's good enough," said Shorty, sinking back. "The column's movin' agin," said Abel Waite, turn ing his attention to his team.
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