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Updated: June 26, 2025
Every boss herder has a horn; if he gits into trouble he blows it and all hands come a-runnin' to shoot holes in Mr. Cowman think I'll make one myself." He halted behind a rock and scrutinized the approaching horsemen over the top. "That's Jasp, in front," he observed impersonally. "I wouldn't mind ownin' that black mule of his'n, neither.
"Ax yer dad an'ye kin tell him the word kems from me whether he hev read sech ez this on the lawgiver's stone tables yander in the mounting: 'An' ye shall claim sech ez be yourn, an' yer neighbor's belongings shall ye in no wise boastfully medjure fur yourn, nor look upon it fur covet-iousness, nor yit git up a big name in the kentry fur ownin' sech ez be another's."
There ain't overly much o' the fool in me, but there's enough to make me hate ownin' up to a clean miss. When I got to the corral this evening, Smoky had bin there an hour or so at least. He arst me if I'd killed a buck and said he'd heard a shot. Wal, I lied, but I saw that he suspicioned me. Afterwards, I reckon he'd a look at the old gun, and found the shell in it.
And sez he to you, he couldn't be any manner of manes purtind to be the aquil to what his father was. And sez you to him, what was he? And sez he, it was one of the Polymatherses he was, and well known for his larnin' through the len'th and breadth of the county Sligo. And a name it was, he sez, any man might be proud of ownin'."
The new-comer was a fat youth with a round and smiling face, who, as he raked down the bedding, talked in a pleasing drawl. "Pat," he began, shoving him over gently, "you're shore some cayuse. Wouldn't mind ownin' a piece o' you myself. But I was goin' for to say there's trouble come onto you. That mighty likable pardner o' yours is gone in complete sick to death.
I guess they're lies, like they print about people eatin' out of silver plates, and ownin' dogs that cost $100." "Certainly," said Haywood. "What do you play on your team?" "Ketcher. Ever play any?" "Never in my life," said Haywood. "I've never known any fellows except one or two of my cousins." "Jer like to learn? We're goin' to have a practice-game before the match. Wanter come along?
'What did I say to en? Well, I don't mind ownin' that for a moment it took me full aback an' tied the string o' my tongue.
"One can't see much out of this little pane of glass and through the rain and mist." "It's a fine place, ma'am, and a good, big house," he returned. "I wouldn't mind ownin' such a place myself. It's grand in the summer time, and not so bad to look at even now through all this storm o' mist, hail, and rain."
Here was Billy, rich and healthy, Jack at college, and ever'thing a-runnin' slick and smooth, when nothin' must do but the old creetur must take to the jug, and it's gone on and gone on, till old Bradley Gaither owns in-about all the Carew plantation that's wuth ownin'. Maybe it was Billy's wife druv him to it, Sister Jane." "I say the word!" exclaimed Miss Jane, scornfully, "I say the word!
"Obi was an emigrant, and those emigrants are ginerally so fond of ownin' the soil, that like misers, they carry as much of it about 'em on their parsons, in a common way, as they cleverly can. Some on 'em are awful dirty folks, that's a fact, and Obi was one of them. He kept public, did Obi; the sign said it was a house of entertainment for man and beast.
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