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But he falls ill and when he learns he's goin' ter die he tells Dr. De Courcy, that's his physician, that he knows whar Peg-leg's lost mine is an' gives him a map an' directions. Arter ther man dies, Dr. De Courcy spends all his money trying ter find ther buttes, but he fails. Then comes a young chap named Tom Cover of Riverside.
"'Certainly, says I. 'If there ever was a guilty party that didn't do it, why, she's not him you and me agree there, entirely. "'I beg your pardon? says she, lookin' at me with them scart-deer eyes of hers. 'I don't quite understand I'm so stupid. "'Yes, that's what's apt to come of vegetables, says I. 'But tell me more about the Pagan festival. "I fancy Peg-leg's best couraged her up some.
"So when he took an' died like as how I'm a-going to tell you of, I was plumb joyful, not only because I could feel at liberty to relieve my mind when necessary in a manner as is approved of and rightful among gents not only because o' that, but because they was one less bad egg in the cow-country. "Now the manner o' Peg-leg's dying was sure hilarious-like.
"There's something about Christmas that warms the heart and makes the noblest and best of our sentiments to come to the surface for a breath of fresh air. Yes, sir, there is, and they passed it around in Peg-leg's place that afternoon so hot, sweet, and plentiful that I hadn't been there more'n two hours before my feelin's had rose to such a pitch that I went out and bought each' and every Mrs.
I never got to it, but I come mighty close yes, sir, ole Pete he come mighty close." "Tell the boys about Peg-leg Smith's lost mine," suggested Zeb. "Give me the fillin's, then, an' I will," said old Pete, holding out a blackened and empty corncob, "though I'm surprised they ain't never heard on it. Thought everybody had heard of Peg-leg's mine."
"'Why, you poor little critter, says I; 'you're near froze to death take a drop of this, pullin' out a flask of Peg-leg's best. "'What? she says, starting back in horror. 'Can that be whisky? "'Madam! says I, rememberin', 'how dast you? That's a prescription put up by my favorite physician a small dose will do you a large good.
Try a piece, and we'll go in the station, where it's warmer, I hope, and talk it over. "She strangled some, but downed a trifle. "There was a good old lignite fire blazin' away 'n the station. "'Now that you've been so kind to me, she says, 'I dare tell you what I thought. "She had stopped shiverin' Peg-leg's best knocked shivers quick.
Besides which, the merry Christmas in glassified form with which I had encouraged myself at Peg-leg's, and the wad of that beautiful sensitive plant, the long green, which was reposin' on my heart, says to me: 'Scraggsy, spring yourself jump, boy, jump!
"I takes me headlong flight by way o' the back room and on-root pitches Peg-leg's gun over into the canon, too, an' then whips around the corner of the saloon an' fetches out ag'in by the street in front. With his gun gone an' his leg gone, Peg-leg so long's y'ain't within arm's reach is as harmless as a horned toad. So I kinda hangs 'round the neighbourhood jes' to see what-all mout turn up.
"Peg-leg's room was in the front o' the house on the fourth floor, but the fire was all below, and what with the smoke comin' out the third-story winders he couldn't see down into the street, no more'n the boys could see him only they just heard him bellerin'. "Then some one of 'em sings out: "'Hey, Peg-leg, jump! We got a blanket here. "An' sure enough he does jump!"
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