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All eyes are drawn to the two raisins on the table, and as the right hand comes into sight from beneath the table, the left quietly transfers the napkin to it, thereby effectually concealing the presence of raisin No. 3. The napkin is again laid over raisins 1 and 2, and No. 3 is secretly deposited with them.
He had fought a good fight, one that would be a story worth telling when she had become an old woman with grandchildren at her knee. "Does your foot hurt you much?" she asked gently. "It sort o' keeps my memory jogged up. It's a kind of forget-me-not souvenir, for a good boy, compliments of a Mescalero buck, name unknown, probably now permanently retired from his business of raisin' Cain.
But I do find, a savin and exceptin your ever onnurable onnur, 'tis all a gull queerum! Whereof the face of affairs is quite transmogrified! And so, ast for raisin the wind of twenty thousand pounds, I find the think is neither komparissuble nur a parallel to common sense. For why? It is not to be had.
"'You mind your own business, I roars. 'Ain't you ashamed, makin' trouble with a man's wife in his own house? "'I was under the impression the house belonged to my sister-in-law, he says. And again I was knocked off my pins. "'You great big loafer! I yelled at him; 'settin' here doin' nothin' but raisin' the divil generally! "He jumped as if I'd stuck a brad-awl into him.
It is true that an explorer, delving among the rocks and crevices, might have found some fugitive stuffed olive or perchance a lost nut or raisin here and there. But the feast of Dessert Isle was now a part of history. This was now made into two long benches, supported by sticks driven into the ground. It was intended that the overflow from this grandstand should sit on the grass.
They all filed in, sinister and silent, with eager faces turned to the little Texan. His dominance showed markedly. "Gordon, y'u stand in the door an' keep your eye peeled," went on Blue. "... Now, boys, listen! I've thought it all out. This game of man huntin' is the same to me as cattle raisin' is to y'u. An' my life in Texas all comes back to me, I reckon, in good stead fer us now.
The gambler was not a patient man, and the laws of hospitality interested him not in the least. "Say" he pointed at the open Bible on the table beside Sandy "takin' on psalm-smitin'?" Scipio hurled himself into the breach. "It's them regulations Sunny give me for raisin' the kids. They need a Bible talk after their bath. I bin readin' up some." A momentary twinkle flashed into the gambler's eyes.
Remove the jelly from the fat and sediment, mix with it the juice of a Seville orange and twelve lemons, the peels of three ditto, the whites and shells of twelve eggs, brown sugar to taste, nearly a pint of raisin wine, one ounce of coriander seed, a quarter of an ounce of allspice, a bit of cinnamon, and six cloves, all bruised and previously mixed together.
No rain, no crawling thing to spoil our fun, till one day just before dinner Percy and me sittin' there with the blankets between us and our beans counted out at the side, raisin' and cross-liftin' each other, him having drawed one card whilest I took two to a pair of tens and a kicker, and made four tens a shadder fell on the blanket.
"One bottle port wine, almond, raisin, all about, more better'n Pine Creek all right "; and the homestead taking a turn at the beating "for luck," assured him that it "knocked spots off Pine Creek."
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