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Updated: May 19, 2025
Every once in a while, by just tryin' and pluggin' along on the dead square, a fellow gets something which turns out in the clean-up to be the sort that was for keeps, after all, even if it wasn't just what he thought he wanted." "Then you'll go along?" "Si, amigo! Yes, I'll go along." They parted, Dan Anderson to seek his own lonely adobe. There he closed the door, as though he feared intrusion.
"What I'm gittin' at is, Roth over to Concho said last night if I was to go over to Bailey he's the fo'man of the Concho outfit and ask him for a job, I could mebby land one. Roth, he said he'd outfit me and leave me to pay for it from my wages. Andy White, he's pluggin' for me over to the ranch. I ain't said nothin' to you, for I wa'n't sure but Roth he says mebby I could git a job.
But I heard it straight that old Benke is goin' to be transferred to Fond du Lac. And if he is, why, I step in, see? Benke's got a girl in Fondy, and he's been pluggin' to get there. Gee, maybe I won't be glad when he does!" A little silence. "Will you be glad, Tess? H'm?" Tess felt herself glowing and shivering as the big hand closed more tightly on her arm. "Me?
A few of us are workin' for the glory of it, and most of us are workin' t' eat, and lots of us are pluggin' an' savin' in the hopes that some day we'll have money enough to get back at some people we know; but there is some few workin' for the pure love of the work and I guess I'm one of them fools.
Close upon 9 p.m. the combined attack developed; Khye-Kheens across the valley, and Malo'ts in front of us, pluggin' at long range and yellin' to each other to come along and cut our infidel throats. Then they skirmished up to the gate, and began the old game of calling our Pathans renegades, and invitin' 'em to join the holy war.
He opened his mouth but Andy interrupted with "Honest, Bill, I wasn't meanin' to hit you. I was pluggin' at Pete, there. It was his fault; he went and hid out behind you. Honest, Bill wait and I'll help you dig that there mud out of your ear." Bill shook his head and growled as he scraped the mud from his face and neck.
"Guess I'm goin' on." "Where?" "I'll write you when I know; maybe I'll even send you what I owe you, but I don't feel like boastin' at the moment. Nig!" "You can't walk." "Did you never happen to notice that one-legged fella pluggin' about Dawson?" He had gone down on his hands and knees to see if Nig was asleep under the camp-bed. The Colonel got up, went to the door, and let down the flap.
He has his coat off, pluggin' away on the job and doin' the kind of work that I could learn to play with any time I had a day off. Not that I'm lookin' for it. Bein' head office boy suits me down to the ground. That's bein' somethin', even if they do pay you off with a five and a one. But if you're a live one you'll get tipped as much more.
"Sure, that's a poor game, Pierre," he whispered; "an' I'd rather be pluggin' their hides wid bullets, or givin' the double-an'-twist. It's fightin' I come for, and not the trick av Mother Kilkevin." Pierre arranged a plan of campaign at once. Every man looked to his gun, the gates were slowly opened, and Macavoy stepped out.
"Whee! sounds queer to me, I must say Jack such a man, such a man to play so many different parts! Say, d'ye know I kinder guess he ain't such a tough guy under all the varnish must have a heap o' human natur' under it all to fall for such a decent game as taxidecentry or whatever you call this pluggin' dead birds an' makin' 'em sit up on boughs like they might be all to the good!"
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