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Thompson told him, and on the whole, gave a truthful account. "What kind of feller is this Dawson?" the stranger inquired after a moment's silence following the close of the story. "A skipjack of a no-account cow-wrastler," promptly replied Lanpher. "He thinks he's hell on the Wabash." "Allasame he must be old pie to put the kybosh on Nebraska thataway." "Luck," sneered Lanpher. "Just luck."
"I saw him once when I was a boy." "Any relation?" "He married a cousin of my stepmother. What sort of a man is he?" "He's a no-account man shif'less, lazy drinks." "That agrees with what I have heard. How about his wife?" "She's smart enough. If he was like her they'd live comfortably. She has a hard time with him and Abner Abner's her son, and just like his father, only doesn't drink yet.
If Gus really meant Augustus, why Augustus he would be henceforth. The Massa Captain had said it and what the Massa Captain said went, especially when he gave a bright new dime to enforce the order. "And YOUR name?" continued the questioner, pointing at number two. "I'se jist Jule, sah," was the shy reply. "That's a nickname too. I can't have such slipshod, no-account names for my hands' children.
What does a person kill another person for, Tom Sawyer? answer me that." "Why, he er " "Answer up! You ain't no fool. What does he kill him FOR?" "Well, sometimes it's for revenge, and " "Wait. One thing at a time. Revenge, says you; and right you are. Now who ever had anything agin that poor trifling no-account? Who do you reckon would want to kill HIM? that rabbit!" Tom was stuck.
For instance, she accepted her present situation with a sang-froid equaling that of a camp harpy, a few of whom Pierce had seen; then, too, she was, or had been, married to a no-account foreigner to whom she referred with a calloused and most unwifely flippancy; moreover, she bore herself with a freedom, a boldness, quite irreconcilable to the modesty of so- called "good women."
But more rasping, this particular night, than nerves, more poignant than thirst, more dangerously excitative even than remorse, hunger rioted in him, hunger, the one worst enemy of the Senior Surgeon's cause, the simple, silly, no-account, gnawing, drink-provocative hunger of an empty stomach.
"Here, Bill, confound you, come and take this horse. Don't you hear me, you idiot? You infernal niggers are getting to be so no-account that the last one of you ought to be driven off the place. Trot, confound you. Here, take this horse to the stable and feed him. Where is the Major? In the office? The devil he is."
This fellow in here is a lazy no-account, and the army is the best place for him, although I am sorry to say so." "Yes, the army nowadays is a good place for lazy-bones," agreed the officer. A queer look came over his face. "We are picking up all the single men we can." He leaned on the desk and spoke as one man to another.
The artless simplicity of Red-Butte-Western methods, or unmethods, was dying hard, inexcusably hard. "Does the night despatcher happen to know just where 204 is, at this present moment?" he inquired with gentle irony. Bradford laughed. "I'd be willing to bet a piebald pinto against a no-account yaller dog that he don't.
"An' I'd jest like to say that when a genelman gits around to do the perlite by a no-account mutton-worrier, he figgers to be treat right " Birdie turned on him with cold eyes. "I'll sure be treatin' you right," she said, "when I tell you that door don't need shuttin' after you. It's on the swing." She did not wait to witness her guest's departure.
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