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Updated: June 29, 2025
One night when the boys at the Forest Queen was rigging Hill worse'n usual, and the Hen all the time getting madder and madder, Santa Fé Charley come into the game himself. Knowing how down the Hen was on such doings he usually didn't. I guess he and she'd been having some sort of a ruction that day, and he wanted to get even with her.
I know he hates the job. He thinks the world and all of Si and Shorty, but he's the kind of a man to do his duty without fear, favor or affection. And all of us 'll have to testify. Dumb Shorty's fool soul! Why didn't he get up his ruction somewhere where the boys couldn't see him, and know nothing about it! I've no patience with him or Si." Lieut.
She was smit into gravity again. "Not till the teacher is well." Herman pretended to be angry. "Dog take the teacher, the old spindle-legs! If I'd known he was going to raise such a ruction in our quiet and peaceful neighborhood, I never would have brought him here." Mattie did not laugh; she pondered.
Here they be!" The policeman blinked at us, and once more blew his whistle. At last the other policeman came, looking about half awake. He was the one who had been snoring so loud. "What's all this ruction about?" he asked in a very cross tone. The big policeman said something to him in a low voice, and they both stepped out on the veranda.
"But it just happens we can't afford to fight now. If ever a ruction starts we haven't a chance. And we've all got our women and children to recollect. We've got to be peaceable at any price, and put up with whatever dirt is heaped on us." "But what will we do with the desert coming?" cried a woman who nursed a babe at her breast.
"He said an' she watched an' listened an' giggled as how he was in right an' you was in wrong; as how the law was on his side an' he'd stick it out; how he could take the whole ruction into court an' beat you; how " Old Hell-Fire Packard stared at him, mumbling heavily: "He said that? Stephen, my gran'son said that?" "Yes," lied Blenham glibly. "Them was his words.
Bud was boiling with such an anger, and it demanded that he should all but give Marie the shirt off his back, since she had demanded so much and for so slight a cause. Bud could not see for the life of him why Marie should have quit for that little ruction. It was not their first quarrel, nor their worst; certainly he had not expected it to be their last.
An' didn't they have words or a ruction of some kind? for 'twas the other fellow Smoke sent up in the buckets to the top of the mine; an' a piece at a time he went up, a leg to-day, an' to-morrow an arm, the next day the head, an' so on." "But you can't mean it!" I cried out, overcome with the horror of it. "Mean what!" he demanded, quick as a flash. "'Tis nothin' I've said.
"But I believe I kin handle 'em until either the train pulls out or the boys hear the ruction and come to my help." Then he called out sternly as he raised the revolver in his left hand: "I'll shoot the first man that attempts to come on this car, and I'll kill your Captain, that I've got covered, dead. You man with that shot-gun, p'int it straight up in the air or I'll drop you in your tracks.
Si and Shorty snatched the two principals apart with a good deal of violence and much show of their own tempers. "You long legged sand hill crane," said Si, shaking Gid. "Will you always be kickin' up a rumpus? I'll break your neck if you don't act better." "You senseless little bantam," said Shorty, with his grip on Harry's throat; "will you always be raising a ruction?
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