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He also left soothing medicine to be given to the patient if he again became delirious. Frances was so much occupied with her father all that day that she could do nothing about Ratty M'Gill. She had noticed, however, that the Mexican boy, José Reposa, had driven the doctor to the ranch and that he took him back to the train again.
Come with me, dear Ratty, and your amiable friend also, if he will be so very good, just as far as the stable-yard, and you shall see what you shall see!
Such ohs and ahs! 'Twan't nothing but a ratty old cripple of a sofy, with one leg carried away and most of the canvas in ribbons, but four men lugged it up the steps and the careful way they handled it made you think the Old Home House was a receiving tomb and they was laying in the dear departed. 'Twas set down on the piazza and then the friends had a chance to view the remains.
"Better keep off'n the leetle hawse, Ratty!" one fellow was advising the unseen individual who was partly, at least, furnishing the entertainment for the loiterers. "She looks meek," put in another, "but believe me! when she was broke, it was the best day's work Joe Magowan ever done on this here ranch. Ain't that so, boys?" "Ratty warn't here then," said the first speaker.
Come back! I want you, quick!" "Oh, come along, Mole, do!" replied the Rat cheerfully, still plodding along. "Please stop, Ratty!" pleaded the poor Mole, in anguish of heart. "You don't understand! It's my home, my old home! I've just come across the smell of it, and it's close by here, really quite close. And I must go to it, I must, I must! Oh, come back, Ratty! Please, please come back!"
He admitted his errors and wrong-headedness and made a full apology to Rat for losing his boat and spoiling his clothes. And he wound up by saying, with that frank self-surrender which always disarmed his friends' criticism and won them back to his side, "Ratty! I see that I have been a headstrong and a wilful Toad!
Unless we are prepared to say: "This is a desirable state of things; let the inbreeding of town stocks go on we shall evolve in time a new type immune to town life; a little ratty fellow all nerves and assurance, much better than any country clod!" which, by the way, is exactly what some of us do say!
Why, there's one ratty little Englishman up at our place, and our girls just swarm after him; their mothers are worse. Well, it's so, Jenny," he said to the lady who had joined them and whom March turned round to see when he spoke to her. "If I wanted a foreigner I should go in for a man. And these officers! Put their mustaches up at night in curl-papers, they tell me. Introduce you to Mrs.
"That's the kind of a spirit I like to see you show, Frances," he declared, patting her hand. "If those punchers don't do what you tell 'em, bounce 'em! They've got to learn what you say goes just as though I spoke myself. And Ratty M'Gill never was worth the powder to blow him to Halifax," concluded the ranchman, vigorously. Frances was glad her father approved of her action.
"I wouldn't think too much over it if I was you," said he to Mitchell, "hundreds of sensible men went mad over that there Tichborne case who didn't have anything to do with it, but just through thinking on it; and you're ratty enough already, Jack. Let it alone and trust me to find out who's Smith just as soon as ever we cut out."
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