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Updated: June 2, 2025
Now you jest come right into the house, an' I'll have somethin' got fer you that'll stay your stomach better 'n air, he says. "'No, I says, 'I've made trouble enough fer one day, I guess, an' I wouldn't go, though he urged me agin an' agin. 'You don't fall in with the customs of this region? I says to him. "'Not in that pertic'ler, at any rate, he says.
Crowbait wa'n't no name fer him. He was stun blind on the off side, an' couldn't see anythin' in pertic'ler on the nigh side couldn't get nigh 'nough, I reckon an' had most ev'rythin' wrong with him that c'd ail a hoss; but I thought he was a thoroughbred.
"Tain't now," said David, "an' mebbe won't be fer a good while; still, it's wuth somethin', an' I advised him to hold onto it on gen'ral princ'ples. I don't know the pertic'ler prop'ty, of course," he continued, "but I do know somethin' of that section of country, fer I done a little prospectin' 'round there myself once on a time.
An' he was a mighty nice feller, too, good-natured, an' handsome enough fer any gal, no matter how pertic'ler she might be. He told me to take good care of ye. Hello! what's the matter?" The cause of the captain's exclamation was the expression of confusion which suddenly overspread the girl's face.
"I've sold the crowd a good many hosses since then, an' I've laughed a thousan' times over that pertic'ler trade. Me 'n Miss Claricy," he added, "has alwus ben good friends sence that time an' she 'n Polly are reg'lar neetups. She never sees me in the street but what it's 'How dee do, Mr.
"Willis'll give two hunderd fer the sorr'l colt," said the incomer, whom John recognized as one of the loungers in the Eagle bar the night of his arrival. "E-um'm!" said David. "Was he speakin' of any pertic'ler colt, or sorril colts in gen'ral? I hain't got the only one the' is, I s'pose." Dick merely laughed.
"Seen ye before," said Dick, as they shook hands. "I was in the barroom when you come in the other night," and then he laughed as at the recollection of something very amusing. John flushed a little and said, a bit stiffly, "I remember you were kind enough to help about my luggage." "Excuse me," said Dick, conscious of the other's manner. "I wa'n't laughin' at you, that is, not in pertic'ler.
He took pertic'ler delight in abusin' an' tormentin' Dave, an' the poor little critter was jest as 'fraid as death of him, an' good reason. Father was awful hard, but he didn't go out of his way; but 'Lish never let no chance slip.
"Oh, hit ain't nothin' pertic'ler," he reassured. "Hit hain't nothin' fer a gal ter fret herself erbout, only I kinder suspicions strangers jest now." "Air the truce busted?" She put the question in a tense, deep-breathed whisper, and the boy replied casually, almost indifferently. "No, Sally, hit hain't jest ter say busted, but 'pears like hit's right smart cracked.
Yes'm, I says, 'it went off, 's ye might say, like old Elder Maybee's powder, I guess," said David, "that I must 'a' ben talkin' ruther louder 'n I thought, fer I looked up an' noticed that putty much ev'ry one on 'em was lookin' our way, an' kind o' laughin', an' Price in pertic'ler was grinnin' straight at me. "'What's that, he says, 'about Elder Maybee's powder?
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