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Updated: September 28, 2025
Boys, I begin to think that p'r'aps after all we're doin' wrong in submittin' to the encroachments o' the alien. Hear, hear! shouted half a dozen voices. 'It strikes me that the inferior race that can skin Levi Long to his pelt in a gamble is providin' no fit associates for guileless an' confidin' children o' the Occident, like yourselves, f'r instance.
That there mutt had acted right decent, an' we knew Ranch would have bats in the belfry fer fair if he hoid tell o' the pup's finish; so says Buck; 'Let's not tell him, 'cause he's takin' on now like he'd lost mother an' father an' best goil an' all, an' if he knew Daggett was providin' chow fer Chinos he'd go clean bug house an' we'd have ter ship him home ter St. Elizabeth.
She and Samson Rawdy thoroughly enjoyed the occasion, and he was, moreover, quite free from any money anxiety regarding it. At first he had been considerably exercised. He had come home and conferred with his wife, who was the business balance-wheel of the family. "Carroll has been speakin' to me about providin' carriages for his daughter's weddin', an' I dunno about it," said he.
"You want some facts for a starter. Well, I guess a few facts don't hurt in this business, providin' you don't push in too many of 'em." He pondered for a moment, then went on, as though summarizing from a biography: "Only child of the late Jeremiah Bassett, founder of Bassett's Bank. Old Jerry was pure boiler plate; he could squeeze ten per cent interest out of a frozen parsnip.
In another minute the captain came from the cabin, carrying a three-legged stool, which he placed upon the deck. "Thar, Miss," he said, "I think that'll be more comfortable than standin'. Ye kin lean aginst the cabin, providin' ye don't go to sleep an' push it over." The girl smiled as she resigned the wheel and sat down upon the stool.
"Then old Dixland announces that he has discovered somethin' wrong in the principle of the thing, and they had to wait while he ordered some new fittin's from Boston. "Meanwhile there was other complications settin' in. Scudder was kept busy providin' grub and such like and helpin' the niece, Olivia, with the housework.
"How are we to attract their attention, providin' we succeed in creepin' up under the wall?" I asked, after a long pause, and he replied, grimly: "I'll answer that question after you've told me how we're goin' to stop 'em shootin' at us while we're tryin' to get across."
I asked, in surprise, and pitying from the bottom of my heart the man who was so deeply repentant. "That I would, Captain Campbell. It may be in time I can live down my record, providin' there be any one who'll look to what I may do, instead of always thinkin' of what I have done." "But the men in the fort have been kind to you of late, Cox?" I said, questioningly.
Drake figures about five hundred Yankees on the spot, and trains comin' in with more all the time." Sighing, Croxton rubbed his hand across his freckled face, smearing road dust and sweat into a gritty mask. "Me I could do with four or five hours' sleep, right down here in the road. Always providin' no blue belly'd trot along to stir me up.
An' so Lon didn't graze on that range no more." "This country's goin' plum to " sneered Dexter. But a laugh silenced him. And the youth continued. "It might have been fixed up for Lazy," he went on, "only when she found out his name was Lazy, she wanted to know right off if he could support a wife providin' he got one.
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