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He said they all knew in their own hearts, both of the errents was right and just, to their own souls and their own country. He said for the liquor had made him very open-hearted and talkative that they knew the course they was pursuin' in regard to intemperance was a crime against God and their own consciences. But they didn't dare to tackle unpopular subjects.
He was a friend of Peabody's," laughed the lobbyist to the Mississippian. "But in this case," said Stevens, "we must be very careful. Possibly some of your methods in handling the men you go after " "Say," interposed Steinert, "you know I don't do all pursuin', all the goin' after, any more than others in my business.
I don't blame you so much. When men get rich they naturally achieve a passion for the things that money will buy. They think they've got to improve the breed o' dogs an' horses, an' they're apt to forget the breed o' men. You've been pursuin' Happiness with dogs, horses, an' motor-cars. You never can catch her in that way never.
"A great many cars thinks they can take this road; but they all come back. We walks after 'em at our convenience." "Meanin' that the other jaunty is now pursuin' us on his lily feet?" said Pyecroft. "Precisely." Get out!" The man obeyed with alacrity. "See those spars up-ended over there? I mean that wickyup-thing. Hop-poles, then, you rural blighter. Keep on fetching me hop-poles at the double."
Th' English pote does betther." "'Las' night at eight o'clock, he says, 'we found our slendher but inthrepid ar-rmy surrounded be wan hundhred thousan' Boers, he says. 'We attackted thim with gr-reat fury, he says, 'pursuin' thim up th' almost inaccessible mountain side an' capturin' eight guns which we didn't want so we give thim back to thim with siveral iv our own, he says.
He paused a moment, then continued slowly: 'They still hunt for him "Clavers" and Grierson o' Lag; 'tis the weird they hae to dree till the Day o' Doom for their wickedness i' pursuin' the Saints o' God. 'Have you ever seen them? I asked lightly. 'Ay, I hae, came the unexpected response, 'whiles i' the "oncome" or "haar," or by the moonlicht. 'D' ye no ken the bit ballant?
"An' we've left the enemy behind!" sang the shiftless one, looking back at the white masses. "He thought he had us, but he hadn't! He turned back at the steep slope, but we came on! Thar's nothin' like havin' a fall between you an' a lot o' pursuin' Injun canoes, is thar, Paul?" Paul laughed, half in amusement and half in nervous relief. "No, Sol, there isn't, at least not now," he replied.
Dey were a chinaberry tree close to de door an' Walter got b'hin' it an' fired a pistol. Mr. Dabbs were hit wid his arm a-layin' 'crost de counter wid his pistol in his han'. "'Me an' Mr. An' he died dat night. De word jus' kinda got' roun' dat some of de Chisolm crowd done killed Mr. Gully's clerk. "'Walter run off to Memphis. Mr. Gully were pursuin' after 'im to ketch 'im.
"You're goin' to Condy Dalton's," replied Nelly, with much coolness, but whether assumed or not it is difficult to say; "look into his face, and try what you can find there. At any rate, report has it that there's blood upon his hand, an' that the downfall of himself and his family is only the vengeance of God, an' the curse of murdher that's pursuin' him and them."
Well, I sold them chickens all right for a dollar and two bits, which was better than I expected, and got an order for more. About ten days later I got a letter from the commission house. "We are returnin' a sample of your Arts and Crafts chickens with the lovin' marks of the teeth still onto him," says they. "Don't send any more till they stops pursuin' of the nimble grasshopper.
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