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Cousin had the same thought for he spoke up and said: "I'll live s'long's there's any show to even up the score, but I ain't goin' to be kept alive no three days over a slow fire just to make some fun for them damn beggars." I watched the bar of sunlight slowly move over the rough puncheon floor. The time passed infernally slowly for men waiting to test a hopeless hazard.
S'long's you is Marse Fleming and de man dat took dat 'ar pan offer Tinka de odder day, I ain't mindin' yo' frens' bedevilments. I've got somefin fo' you, yar, and a little box," and she handed him a folded paper.
Bub turned a scowling face to her, but she was looking out across the bluff. And she had broached a subject in which the boy was intensely interested. "Thet thar car in there is a reg'lar hummer," he asserted, waving the knife in one hand and the stick in the other by way of emphasis. "Tain't much fer looks, ye know, but looks cuts no figger with machinery, s'long's it's well greased.
To my shamed surprise, this roustabout wit drew a nervous, silvery giggle from her; and that completed the work with Mr. Percy, whose face grew scarlet with anger. "You're a hot one, you are!" he sneered, with shocking bitterness. "You're quite the teaser, ain't ye, s'long's yer lady-friend is lukkin' on! I guess they'll be a few surprises comin' YOUR way, before long.
After a silence, the Kid asked another question: "Well, at that, the race-track game is no game for a married man, is it?" "M-m-well," answered the patriarch thoughtfully, "that's as how a man's wife looks at it. Some of 'em think it ain't no harm to gamble s'long's you can win, but the average woman, Frank, she don't want the hosses runnin' for her bread and butter.
Thet 'ud take us out to the open sea ag'in, with a big 'round about o' coastin'; still, in the end, it mout be the safer way. 'Long the outside shore, thar ain't so much likelihood o' meetin' Feweegins of any kind: and ef we did meet 'em, 'twould be easier gettin' out of thar way, s'long's we're in a boat sech ez we hev now."
I acted real unlikely, I know; but, you see, Kenelm does mean so much to me that I couldn't bear to think of givin' him up to anybody else. When I come to think it over I realized 'twa'n't no more'n I had ought to have expected. I mustn't be selfish and I ain't goin' to be. S'long's 'tain't that that Jezebel of an Abbie Larkin I don't mind so much.
This with a pressure of the girl's arm, and spoken with a little accent, whether Swedish, Belgian, or Slavic. "They all say that." "Crazy about yourself, ain't you!" "Not as crazy as I am about you," with tardy gallantry. He was very little stirred, really. "Yeh, you are. I wish you was. It makes no never minds to you who you're dancing with, s'long's you're dancing."
Just travelin'. Maybe I'll make it over to Rattlesnake Buttes" he raised an arm toward the northeast "and maybe down Caldron Cañon way." He pointed southeast toward the mountains. "I dunno just driftin' along, me an' the little fellas. Sometimes we drift here, and sometimes we drift there. Don't matter much, s'long's there's grub an' a little rolled barley in the pack-bags.
"I'll risk him," cut in Red. "Could you lead him down here in the morning?" "Yes, indeedy he's a perfect lady of a horse to lead -you can pick up airy foot climb all over him in fac', s'long's you don't try to ride him or hitch him up. If you do that well, young man, you'll get a pretty fair idee of what is meant by one of the demons of hell." "What kind of saddle have you got?"
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