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Updated: June 2, 2025
He heard remarks among the laborers, and he saw the flagman Casey remove his black pipe from his lips an unusual occurrence. "Mac, it wus thot red-head cowboy wot onct p'inted his gun at me!" burst out Casey. "Did yez see him shoot?" replied Mac, with round eyes. "Niver aimed an' yit he hit!"
But I jest had to hold on, me feelin' pow'ful bad. I p'inted my rifle at him, looked down the sights and said: 'Git. He must have knowed what a rifle meant, 'cause git he did, an' he ain't ever come back to claim his mansion.
"When toes have got p'inted down-hill they ain't goin' no other way. Don't you come back to raisin' things on this land. I ain't never seen nothin' thrive on it yet, cep'n weeds, an' the Lord knows they warn't planted." Nicholas shook his head. "Why, look at Turner," he said. "His land is as poor as this, and he makes an easy living."
But the billiard-roomers; they didn't jine. They looked sort of sheepish, and set still. When Mr. Fisher begun to hint p'inted in their direction, they got up and slid outdoor. And right then I'd ought to have smelt trouble, but I didn't; had a cold in my head, I guess likely. "Next thing was to build the new clubhouse, and Gabe went at it hammer and tongs.
This thought was uppermost in her mind. "Don't ye worry," she said tenderly. "Schwartz won't fire yer man." "No; but the sluggers will. There was five men 'p'inted to-day to do up the scabs an' the kickers who won't go out. They near killed him once in Newark for kickin'. It was that time, you know, when Katie was first took bad." "Do ye know their names?" said Tom, her eyes flashing.
She said all the visible signs p'inted to a serious affair 'twixt you two young people, and she said before it went any further she wanted to know ef he was the kind of a young man to be gittin' hisself engaged to a member of the Dabney family, and she wanted to know ef his folks were the real quality folks and not this here codfish aristocracy: That was the very term she used 'codfish aristocracy. Well, I was able to reasshore her.
Cephas had telegrafted to 'em to come with plans and bid for the job of furnishin' the monument. And after a good deal of talk on both sides, Cephas and S. Annie selected one that wuz very high and p'inted. The men stayed to dinner, and I said to Cephas out to one side "Cephas, that monument is a-goin' to cost a sight." "Wall," sez he, "we can't raise too high a one. Wellington deserved it all."
Yes'm, Sister Sudley, that's jes what p'inted out my jewty plain afore my eyes, an' I riz up an' kem ter be instant in a-do-in' of it. 'I'll not leave my own nevy in the tents o' sin, I sez. 'I hev chil'in o' my own, hearty feeders an' hard on shoe-leather, ter support, but I'll not grudge my brother's son a home. Yes, Laurely Sudley, I hev kem ter kerry him back with me.
And then I give her a few p'ints as to what her brother had done, heaving in some personal flatteries every once in a while for good measure. I'd about got to thirdly when James give a screech and p'inted. And, if there wa'n't Lonesome in the launch, headed right for us, and coming a-b'iling! He'd run her along abreast of the beach and turned in at the upper end of the Cut-Through.
Just as he expected, we stopped so suddint that that big obelisk bounced for'ard, its p'inted end foremost, and went clean through the bow and shot out into the sea. The minute it did that the vessel was so lightened that it rose in the water and we easily steamed over the bank.
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