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"Nels, whoever was straddlin' Stewart's hoss met somebody. An' they hauled up a bit, but didn't git down." "Tolerable good for you, Bill, thet reasonin'," replied the cowboy. Stillwell presently got up and walked swiftly to the left for some rods, halted, and faced toward the southwest, then retraced his steps. He looked at the imperturbable cowboy. "Nels, I don't like this a little," he growled.
"Oh, yes," sez Josiah in a reasonin' tone, "the word laymen always means wimmen when it is used in a punishin' and condemnatory sense, or in the case of work and so fourth, but when it comes to settin' up in high places, or drawin' sallerys, or anything else difficult, it alweys means men."
Fu'st thing you know you'll be drappin' off in a snooze out thar, an' missin' him!" "Don't let that worry you," Dale clenched his fists. "I got to be with these books all day, an' I got to watch for him at night or the books won't do me any good." "I don't quite foller yoh reasonin'!" "I didn't think you would," he gave Jess a superior look. "Got any news?"
"Follow out that same reasonin' to the bitter end!" he cried, "an' what will happen ef that traveller whirls round, cuttin' meridians jest twice as fast as the sun goin' the same way?" He paused, but there was no reply. "Why, as sure as shootin', I tell ye, that feller will get jest one day younger fer every two whirls round!" There was a long and momentous silence.
"Let me take hold of yer hand, brat," murmured Andy. "I want to tell ye somethin'." He clasped one of her hands in his, while her free fingers shaded her eyes. "You got three folks standin' by you, kid," continued Andy, earnestly. "Me, Young an' Jesus. While I been alone in the garret, all this time, I been readin' an' a reasonin' out things. Don't ye remember when Mr.
At this point they should have approached him with check-books and fountain pens in hand. Realizing that they must have missed a cue Anthony, with the instincts of an actor, went back and repeated his finale. "Now see here! You taken up my time. You followed prop'sition. You agreed 'th reasonin'? Now, all I want from you is, how many lib'ty bon's?" "See here!" broke in a new voice.
I hain't got nothin', an' Mis' Annis hain't got nothin', an' we figured that we'd jest better git married an' settle down, an' make a good home fer us both, an' if that ain't good reasonin'," David concluded, "I don't know what is." "An' be they actially married?" asked Mrs. Bixbee, still incredulous of anything so preposterous. "So Dick says," was the reply.
Now mine can't abide the sight nor smell of it. What 'bout Paris green?" "They thrive on it; it's as good as an appetizer." "Well," said Jabe Slocum, revolving the quid of tobacco in his mouth reflectively, "the bug that ain't got no objection to p'ison is a bug that's got ways o' thinkin' an' feelin' an' reasonin' that I ain't able to cope with! P'r'aps it's all a leadin' o' Providence.
Whenever you make an impression on a man, stop; your reasonin' and details may ruin you. Like a feller who sais a good thing, he'd better shove off, and leave every one larfin' at his wit, than stop and tire them out, till they say what a great screw augur that is.
Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table. "Horses are the exception," he returned, with dignified asperity. "There always are exceptions. What I was comin' at was I'd been kind of wrong in my reasonin'. That is, I 'ain't reasoned far enough. I was right so far as I went."
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