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"It's tough on you, I know, but think of all them poor sufferin' females that's settin' up nights and worryin' for fear they won't be picked out. Why, say, when you make your ch'ice you'll have to let the rest know right off; 'twould be cruelty to animals not to. You ought to put 'em out of their misery quick's possible." Captain Jerry's laugh was almost dismal.
Presently, up came two stragglers, a corporal of the Eighty-eighth and a sergeant of 'Ours. 'Hi, Corporal, yells Crichton, 'ten pounds if you can get me over the breastwork quick's the word! 'Sergeant, says I, 'twenty pounds if you get me over first. Well, down went the Corporal's musket and the Sergeant's pike, and on to their backs we scrambled a deuced painful business for both of us, I give you my word, Beverley.
"Let me think a moment," said the Queen, resting her chin on her hand. "A Pink can think As quick's a wink!" the parrot declared. But Tourmaline's thoughts required time, and all her Counselors remained silent and watched her anxiously. At last she raised her head and said, "I shall call upon Rosalie the Witch. She is wise and honest and will decide the matter justly."
That's the whole story, an' I guess Steve takes it as a warnin'. Anyway, he ain't no friend to rum nor swearin', Steve ain't. He knows Pretty Quick's ways shortened his mother's life, an' you notice what a sharp lookout he keeps on Rufus." "He needs it," Ike Billings commented tersely. "Some men seem to lose their wits when they're workin' on logs," observed Mr.
Accordingly, we stopped, and, having tied the camels to each other to prevent their straying, took shelter from the rain under the tower or whatever it might be. To pass away the time and keep life in us, for we were almost frozen with the wet and cold, we ate some tinned food and biscuits that we carried in our saddle-bags, and drank a dram of brandy from Quick's flask.
She laughed a dry, forced laugh, and Banks echoed it in his strained key. "But we are going to get rid of 'em. They're a fine bunch you've brought 'em up splendid, made a sight better showing than I could but we are going to get rid of 'em, yes, ma'am, and forget 'em as quick's we can. We are going to start right now to make up those seven years."
"Yes, do come right out into the old kitchen; I shan't make any stranger of you," she invited us pleasantly, after we had been properly received in the room appointed to formality. "I expect Almiry, here, 'll be driftin' out 'mongst the pasture-weeds quick's she can find a good excuse. 'Tis hot now.
"Doors in these old houses are apt to get away from their frames, Captain, and the gentleman there" and he pointed to the Professor "has a voice that carries like a dog-whistle. Oh, no offence, sir. A clear voice is an excellent thing that is, if the doors fit" and although Sergeant Quick's wooden face did not move, I saw his humorous grey eyes twinkle beneath the bushy eyebrows.
He leaned forward in the saddle and ogled the bug-killer with horrid significance. "Git busy with that bresh!" he yelled authoritatively, when a glance showed him that the Happy Family was hesitating and eyeing him uncertainly. "Git a fire goin' quick's yuh kin I'll do the rest. Down in Coconino county we used to have a way uh fixin' sheepherders " "Aw, gwan!
"Keep still now, you pore white trash, and you is all right," said the man who held the revolver. "Make a noise, and you is all wrong, kase you'll be dead quick's a cat can bat her eye. You heah me? Git up!" Any sense of fear that might have come upon Marcy Gray, if he had been given time to think twice, was lost in profound astonishment.
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