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"'I saw you shoot Pedro Johnson, says I, 'and I took that little popgun away from you that you did it with. And when I did so I noticed three or four little scars in a row over your right eyebrow. You've been in rookus before, haven't you? "'I've had these scars ever since I can remember, says he. 'I don't know how they came there. "'Was you ever in Texas before? says I.
Santa Claus can't bear to see little folks in trouble, so he took the boy into his arms, and asked him where he wanted to go. "To Tommy Turner's, and oh, you know that boy in the awful old jacket that likes popguns," was the breathless reply. Of course he knew him, for he knows every boy and girl in Christendom; so a popgun was added to the medley of toys.
He blustered much with a spear too heavy for his hands. Lincoln used to call him a kind of popgun. This free-for-all joust of individualism one of the first fruits of Freedom in the West gave to the life of the little village a rich flavor of comedy. The great talents of Douglas had not been developed. His character was as yet shifty and shapeless.
It is in the hospitable soul of a woman that a man forgets he is a stranger, and so becomes natural and truthful, at the same time that he is mesmerized by all those divine differences which make her a mystery and a bewilderment to If you fire your popgun at me, you little chimpanzee, I will stick a pin right through the middle of you and put you into one of this gentleman's beetle-cases!
The drops, which had at first hit their left cheeks like the pellets of a popgun, soon assumed the character of a raking fusillade from the bank adjoining, one shot of which was sufficiently smart to go through Jocelyn's sleeve. The tall girl turned, and seemed to be somewhat concerned at an onset which she had plainly not foreseen before her starting. 'We must take shelter, said Jocelyn.
The soup was good, the pigeons better, the bread was not sour, and Allis looked hopeful, and inclined to trust Providence for the gravies and dessert. It was just as I had begun to carve the beef that I observed my wife suddenly pale, and a telegram from her eyes turned mine in the direction of General Popgun, who sat at her right hand.
He knew that but for Shorty's arrival he would probably be lying there himself. "I was aimin' to shoot it out with him before I heard of this last scullduggery. Soon as the kid woke me I hustled up my intentions." The bad man looked at Dave's weapon with the flicker of a smile on his face. "He called it a popgun. I took notice it was a right busy li'l' plaything. But you got yore nerve all right.
I did n't say all that; if I had said it, it would have brought a pellet from the popgun, I feel quite certain. The Master went on after he had had out his laugh. There is one thing I am His Imperial Majesty about, and that is my likes and dislikes. What if I do like your verses, you can't help yourself.
I have watched our young Doctor, however, and have been entirely unable to detect any signs of communication between him and this audacious child, who is like to become a power among us, for that popgun is fatal to any talker who is hit by its pellet.
Rob pressed his nose against the glass, and tried to imagine the feelings of a boy in that saddle. He might have stood there all day, had not a ragged little fellow pulled his coat. "Wouldn't you like that popgun?" he piped. "Catch me looking at popguns!" said Rob shortly. But when he saw how tattered the boy's jacket was, he said more softly, "P'r'aps you'd like a biscuit?"
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