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Updated: June 11, 2025
The campaign came on shortly after this, and Jim Lancy was defeated. "I'm going to Omaha," said he to the station-master, "and I've got just enough to buy a ticket with. There's a kind of satisfaction in giving the last cent I have to the railroads." Two months later, a "plain drunk" was registered at the station in Nebraska's metropolis.
On the instant she jerked her pony round, whirled her quirt cross-handed, and tore down the back-trail at full gallop. "Aw, hell," said Racey, looking after the fleeing damsel regretfully. "I clean forgot to ask her about the rest of Nebraska's friends." "Hope Old Man Dale is home," said Racey to himself when he saw ahead of him the grove of cottonwoods marking the location of Moccasin Spring.
"Didja know he was a friend of Nebraska's?" he asked, watching her face keenly. She shook her head. "Nebraska knows a lot of folks," she said, indifferently. "He knows Punch-the-breeze Thompson, too." "Likely he would, knowing Nebraska. He belongs to Nebraska's bunch." "What does Nebraska do for a living?" "Everybody and anything. Mostly he deals a game in the Starlight."
It was his turn now to comfort Captain Johnny Brennan, who had yielded to the blackest despair, once his responsibility was over. "She was a fine ship, Murray," the master lamented, staring with tragic eyes at the Nebraska's spars. "She was a tin washtub, and rusted like a sieve," jeered O'Neil. "But think of me losing her on a still night!"
"The whistle of the locomotive has drowned the howl of the coyote; the barb-wire fence has narrowed the range of the cow-puncher; but no material evidence of prosperity can obliterate our contribution to Nebraska's imperial progress. "Through your kindness to-day I have tasted the sweetest fruit that grows on ambition's tree.
Then you'll find trouble don't wear so many guns after all and is a heap slower about pulling 'em than you thought likely." "But if they're all four of 'em together now, and you " "I ain't said I was going to do anything, have I? Gawda-mighty, Swing, I only want to go and ask how Nebraska's gettin' along. Only tryin' to be neighbourly. Yeah. Neighbourly."
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