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Updated: September 14, 2025
He drained the pannikin as though it had been a glass of rum, and, smacking his lips, proceeded leisurely to refill his pipe. "Are ye sure it's not one of Nelly's old mocassins?" asked Walter, as he eyed the little shoe earnestly. "Sure enough, nephy, I would know her mother's make among ten thousand, an' although that one is oncommon like it in some respec's, it ain't one o' hers."
"But, avast! nephy, I haven't told ye all yet." "Oh! don't bother me with such trifles just now," cried Ruby, thrusting his uncle into a chair and resuming his own seat at his mother's side; "we'll speak of that at some other time; meanwhile let me talk to mother. "Minnie, dear," he continued, "who keeps the cash here; you or mother?"
"'Well, says Dave, p'intin' to a ornery, saddle-colored half-breed who's makin' himse'f some frequent, 'that Injun they calls "Pickles" is his nephy, an' you wants to look out a whole lot. I hears him allow that the killin' of his relatif is mighty rank, an' that he don't like it nohow.
"And threepence for nephy Bob," said the old lady. "Threepence for nephew Bob, and why?" "It is his parquisites when he recommends a gentleman. You would not have me pay out of my own earnings; for he will have it, or he'll ruin my bizziness. Poor folk must be paid for their trouble."
Hence our visit to the rock to-day. Please to write the address in this pocket-book." The major handed Ruby a small green pocket-book as he spoke, in which the latter wrote the full name and address of his late skipper. "Now, nephy," said the captain, "we must, I'm sorry to say, bid ye good day, and ask you to return to your work, for it won't do to rouse suspicion, lad.
Now, Ruby, if you want a short cruise of an hour or so you may come with me." Baby smiled at the manner in which this offer was made, and replied: "With pleasure, uncle." "So, then, that's settled too. Good night, nephy." The captain turned on his side, and dropped the pipe on the floor, where it was shivered to atoms. It must not be supposed that this was accidental. It was done on purpose.
There's the plain hello folks to be treated one way, the good-day folks, the pass-the-time-o'-day folks, the folks that need the tip o' the hat jest for politeness, and not because you're beneath 'em," he hastened to add, noting the skipper's scowl; "the folks that swing up to the platform, the folks that you've got to chase a little, even if it is muddy; the folks that pay in advance and want you to remember it and save 'em trouble, the folks that pay when they come back, and the folks that never pay at all and I tell ye, nephy, there's where your work is cut out for ye!
But Curly is dead game; an' so far, he manages to either out-luck or out-shoot them magistrates; an', as I says, when Moon comes wanderin' in that time mournin' for his nephy, Curly has been projectin' about camp for like it's a week. "Moon sort o' roominates on the play, up an' down, for a day or so, makin' out a plan.
"She's to be at the end o' the pier in five minutes," said the captain, drawing out and consulting a watch that was large enough to have been mistaken for a small eight-day clock. "This is my nephy, Ruby. Ruby Brand Leftenant Lindsay. True blues, both of ye 'When shall we three meet again?
Jest the same, if them Injuns is comin' to braid his tail an' braid it tight, that mule couldn't feel more frantic. "When these yere faithful mules takes to surgin' about the scene on two feet, Moon's nephy grabs a Winchester an' pumps a load or so into the darkness for gen'ral results. An' he has a heap of luck.
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