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Updated: May 2, 2025
Having learned the news the miners adjourned to the saloons and the toasts for the next few hours were to: "Doctor Dick, a man o' narve from Wayback." Until a late hour the miners drank and gambled, and then, toward dawn, quiet reigned in the camps, broken only now and then by a yell from some man who was too full of liquor to go to sleep.
His piece was soon loaded; and, swinging her to the hunter's carry, he turned to the crowd, now collected from all parts of the camp. "Thar's one kind o' shootin'," said he, "that's jest as easy as fallin' off a log. Any man kin do it as kin look straight through hind-sights. But then thar's another kind that ain't so easy; it needs narve."
"It be." "You shall have it." "Then don't beat round the bush, but have the narve to come out with it like a man." All looked at Brassy with amazement. He had been drinking and was reckless. The doctor smiled, but answered complacently: "I always answer a demand, Brassy, so will tell you frankly, that I would not trust you with any message whatever."
Crossing the room, Pete soon produced a small can, which had been heating for some time upon the rickety stove. "Here, drink this; it'll narve ye up a bit. It won't hurt ye, fer it's only some moose-meat soup." "Thar now, ye'll feel better," he remarked, when Keith had finished the savory broth. "When ye've had a good sleep ye'll be all right.
Larry mounted to the piazza of the hotel and in a few words told the story of Doctor Dick's running the gantlet and the nerve he had shown in the ordeal he had passed through. "Oh, he's got ther narve of Old Nick, as we all knows," cried a miner, and this intended compliment was acquiesced in by one and all.
'Here's his description, he says: 'eyelashes, eight killomethres long; eyes, blue an' assymethrical; jaw, bituminous; measuremint fr'm abaft th' left ear to base iv maxillory glan's, four hectograms; a r-red scar runnin' fr'm th' noomo-gasthric narve to th' sicond dorsal verteebree, he says. 'Tis so. I have th' description at home in th' cash dhrawer.
"Der narve it, narve it, Bart! The ditter divils are after ye!" shouted the hunter, hastily retreating from the shore and disappearing in the nearest thicket.
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