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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Ef't warn't for the need o' 'em jest now, I say the Staked Plain air better 'ithout 'em, as wu'd anywars else. Why can't she an' me be tied thegither 'ithout any sech senseless saramony? Walt Wilder wants no mumblin' o' prayers at splicin' him to the gurl he's choosed for his partner. An' why shed thar be, supposin' we both gie our mutooal promises one to the tother?" "True.
"'Beats mumblin' your words out of a book, like a Britisher, said the captain to me; 'can't offend no man's religion, and helps every one on 'em. "Long months after, I attended a burial service conducted in the same way in silence.
From the first second 's they got her right end up again she begin to ask suthin', 'n' on a'count o' her teeth bein' gone no one could make out what it was. Hiram didn't get no sleep all night with her sighin' 'n' mumblin', 'n' towards mornin' he made out 's she was wantin' to know 'f Mr. Kimball 'd replace them cups 's the cow smashed. Hiram went right after breakfast 'n' asked, 'n' Mr.
She had one of them sweet, strong faces, John, like the nun when I had my arm broke and was scalded, her sweet mouth kept mumblin' prayers, but her fingers held an artery shut that was trying its damndest to pump Gun Gunderson's old heart dry strong character, you bet. "Well, that woman sat facing our table and kept looking at me; I couldn't see her without turning, but I knew she was looking.
Aunt Mary winced and shivered. "My heavens, Lucinda!" she exclaimed, sharply. "I wish’t there was a school to teach outsiders the use of an ear-trumpet. They can’t seem to hit the medium between either mumblin’ or splittin’ one’s ear drums." Lucinda was too much out of breath from her effort to attempt any audible penitence.
"You said you thought you recognized the other man by his voice. It sounds like a drunken pipe-dream, the whole of it; but who did you think it was?" Judson rose up, jerked his thumb toward the door of the superintendent's business office, and said, "Mac, if the whiskey didn't fake the whole business for me the man who was mumblin' with Bart Rufford was Hallock!"
His back was broke an' he was mumblin'; which he must of laid there a day, mebbe two, cause his tongue an' lips was dried up till I couldn't hardly make out what he was sayin'. I catched here an' there a word about holdin' up a train an' he was mumblin' your name now an' agin so I fetched some water from a hole a mile away an' camped.
"Mumblin' loud enough for you to hear, huh?" "Naturally, or I wouldn't 'a' heard it." "Then they wanted you to hear. Guess they know yo're a friend of mine." "Guess they do now," Rod Rockwell said, grimly. "What do you mean?" "Oh, nothin'. I just talked to 'em a li'l bit." "And you wasn't shot? Didn't they do anything?" "Hell, no," Rod denied, disgustedly.
Lang or that, she had had a wean to a dragoon; she hadnae come forrit for maybe thretty year; and bairns had seen her mumblin' to hersel' up on Key's Loan in the gloamin', whilk was an unco time an' place for a God-fearin' woman. Howsoever, it was the laird himsel' that had first tauld the minister o' Janet; and in thae days he wad have gane a far gate to pleesure the laird.
Go on, chile quit mumblin' up yore words an' please go on an' tell me whut you got to say!
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