near-smothered

Updated: May 14, 2025

And I played the game right up to the hilt, I admit. But nobody's killed. I told Happy to play dead. By gracious, I caught him just in the nick uh time; he'd been setting up, in another minute." To prove it, he bent and twitched the handkerchief from the face of Happy Jack, and Happy opened his eyes and made shift to growl. "Yuh purty near-smothered me t'death, darn yuh."

B. M. Bower - The Flying U Ranch