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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Mebbe if Doct' Duvall wuz to come hisse'f an' mek manifest to you de high pupposes " began Sister Eldora. But Aunt Dilsey cut her off short. "Wouldn't mek no diffe'nce ef he come eighty times a day an' twice ez offen on Sunday. Anyway, I reckins my day fur jinin' things is done over." There was a dead weight of finality in her words. She rose heavily.
I knowed it," he added with a lugubrious complacency. "I told ye all day that I could smell trouble a-comin'; I knowed dang well 't we'd stir up a mess uh fightin' over here. I never come onto this dang res'vation yit, that I didn't have t' kill off a mess uh Navvies before I got offen it agin.
"No; I didn't hear him nor did you either; dat warn't de voice ob Avon." "How can you know that?" asked Mrs. Shirril, beginning to feel anew hope within her. "Lor' o' massy! habent I heerd de voice ob dat younker offen 'nough to know it 'mong ten fousand?
"Groundhog done tole me to." "I'd like to celebrate his razzled head offen him," exploded the Deacon. "I'll welt him into dog's meat hash if I kin lay my hands on him. He's too mean and wuthless to even associate with mules. If I'd a dog on my place as onery as he is I'd give him a button before night. He's not content with bein' a skunk himself; he wants to drag everybody else down to his level.
The ranchman's face flushed with anger: "What the hell do I care about you an' your friends. Git offen this ranch, I tell you!" "Oh, yes, an' while you're gettin' the outfit together just you slip in a cinch, an' a quart or two of hooch, case we might get snake-bit." Beside himself with rage, the man raised his foot to the stirrup.
Night after night I used to get up and warm milk for it, when it wuz very small, for it wuz weakly, and we didn't know as we could winter it. We kep it in a little warm shed offen the wood house for quite a spell, but still I used to find it considerable cold when I would meander out there in a icy night to feed it.
Ain't I manned gangway fer th' Hollanders offen enough to know 'em? Them swine is fakers!" Old Bill moistened his palm again, charged his rifle under his coat, and got on his toes waiting for the mate's word. Rolfe needed no other excuse to attack. Even though Blunt's announcement proved simply a ruse to force his hand, he cared nothing now.
"Well, us uns'll have to keep our clacks shut 'bout 'is bein' here, then," she acquiesced, "an' an' Andy'll have to keep in the garret till the man in Auburn coughs up, that air all, huh?... He can come down sometimes when it air a rainin' hard or dark nights when there ain't nobody around, an' an' darlin', ye can offen chat with 'im when I air outside watchin' fer folks.... Now, can't ye, Daddy?"
And then I seemed to see my own self like I was Curly, a bow-legged cowpuncher offen the range, with no use for him in the world but just to get things mixed up, like I had. And Old Man Wright that used to be our sher'f and the captain of the round-up, and the best cowman in Wyoming what had come to him here at this place? I turned around to look back.
But I shall state the facts, and ask the Board to advise me as to just what I ought to do in the premises." "Ask the Board's advice? Most excellent idea, really," murmured Mr. Gadsby. "You can't go wrong then. But -er -what's the nature of the trouble? Who is the offen " Mr. Gadsby was rubbing his hands, under his coat tails, as he felt the warmth from the steam radiator reach them.
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