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'No, he says, 'I ain't sufferin' fer the money, an' I guess I'll keep the morgidge. It's putty near due now, but mebbe I'll let it run a spell. I guess the secur'ty's good fer it. 'Yes, I says, 'I reckon you'll let it run long enough fer the widder to pay the taxes on't once more anyhow; I guess the secur'ty's good enough to take that resk; but how 'bout my secur'ty? I says.
"'Maybe you don't, Smiley says. 'Maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you ain't only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll resk forty dollars the he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
It looks to me like a community job, an' if you say the word, friend, I'll head a movement to relieve you o' the resk o' cancelin' that entry." "Thank you, old-timer" replied Mr. Hennage kindly, "but this is a personal matter, an' it's been the custom in this town to let every man kill his own skunks. All set, boys. Smoke up!" Each of his guests half turned, facing the gambler.
"De ole gentlemun, he 'lowed puticler you wa'n't to run no resk 'count o' him." "Where is he?" I asked. "In the thick of it?" "No, sir; he's lay'n' down in a little alley clean off d' street." "Come on, then; you'll have to show me where it is. I won't let you get hurt."
In his desperation he at last replied, Let it! We must follow Texas Smith. He had not started on his errand until he had received five hundred dollars in gold, and five hundred in a draft on San Francisco. Then he had himself proposed, "I mought quit the train, an' take my own resk acrost the plains."
Who stood all the resk of gittin' that innocent lamb out o' that sink of iniquity, and hed wit enough to bring her to a place where she could grow up respectable? Timothy. And do you ketch him say in' a word 'bout himself from fust to last? Not by no manner o' means. That ain't Timothy. And what doos the lovin' gen'rous, faithful little soul git? He gits his labor for his pains.
She looked up at him then, and her eyes had again the quick, inquiring glance of some wild creature in a situation foreign to its habits. "Well," she said, "well! I guess I don't resk anything. An' if I did why, I'd resk it!" Jethro bent forward a little. He was smiling, and Dilly met the glance, half fascinated. She wondered that she could forget his smile; and yet she had forgotten it.
But I ain' gwyne to resk no mo' money in stock. De cow up 'n' died on my han's." "So you lost the ten dollars." "No, I didn't lose it all. I on'y los' 'bout nine of it. I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents." "You had five dollars and ten cents left. Did you speculate any more?" "Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat b'longs to old Misto Bradish?
"Lie down up dar, en I han' you Chunk's supper. He gits his'n at de big house. You's got ter play possum right smart, mars'r, or you git cotched. Den we cotch it, too. You 'speck I doan know de resk Chunk en me tookin?" "Forgive me, Aunt Jinkey. But your troubles will soon be over and you be as free as I am."
"Wash the red from her cheek and the light from her look, and she'll still have the queen's own tread," said Jim. "If Loisy Currier'd heern that, you'd wish your cake was dough," says father. "I'll resk it," says Jim. "Loisy knows who's second choice, as well as if you told her." "But what about the Georges, Jim?" I asked; for though I hated to hear, I could listen to nothing else. "Georges?
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