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He paused, watched my expression, and then continued quizzically: "I reckon you wouldn't be in no great hurry to do that." "No! Then, if I stirred the mash and sampled their liquor, nobody would be likely to mistreat me?" "Shucks! Why, man, whut could they gain by hurtin' you? At the wust, s'posin' they was convicted by your own evidence, they'd only git a month or two in the pen.
S'posin' he was to get huntin' on his own and one of us was tired out chasin' him, t'other could run and catch him. If there was only one of us, he couldn't." "I see. Well? One of the other men might take him on the chain. A good-conduct man, for instance." Crothers tugged at the chain, and the unhappy dog drew away toward the scuppers with all his remaining strength.
"Very well, then; s'posin you'd take your eye off of that dog, Johnson, mind you, all the time hissing him on and laughing, and you'd turn and rush for the tree, and begin to swarm up as fast as you could. Well, sir, s'posin' just as you got three feet from the ground Johnson's dog would grab you by the leg and hold on like a vise, shaking you until you nearly lost your hold.
Did you ever do any ridin' what stable was you in?" "I've rode a good deal," answered the little visitor, ignoring the second half of the question. "What's your name?" "Mayne." "Main what?" "Al Mayne," the other replied. "Well, s'posin' you show up at the course paddocks to-morrow mornin' early, an' I'll see you shape on a horse.
He drew up an elbow length away from Mr. Rosen and sank his voice to an intimate half whisper. "Mist' Rosen, le's you an' me do a little s'posin'. Le's s'posen' you has a bar'l of vinegar or molasses or sumpin' which you wants delivered to a frien' in Memphis, Tennessee. Seems lak I has heared somewhars dat you already is got a frien' or two in Memphis, Tennessee? All right den!
And this is your old woman, I s'pose. Miss Graham, how-dy-du? Darned if you don't look like Aunt Nancy, only she's lean and you are squatty. S'posin' you give me a call and get your picters taken. I didn't get an all-killin' sight of practice in Lexington, for the plaguy greenhorns didn't know enough to patternize me, and 'taint a tarnation sight better here; but you," turning to Mr.
"Well, you can't go, and that's the end of it." Isn't that just like a woman? Perfectly unreasonable! Dear! dear! "Now, Ma, listen here. S'posin' we was all goin' some place on a steamboat, me and you and Pa and the baby and all of us, and " "That won't ever happen, I guess." "CAN'T YOU LET ME TELL YOU? And s'posin' the boat was to sink, and I could swim and save you from drown "
"Yo' have the right spirit, boy," the old man said, "an' I like to see it, but you're huntin' trouble sure's you're born. S'posin' yo' asked the questions of some ol' sorehead that wouldn' answer?" "He'd have to answer," replied Hamilton stoutly, "there's a law to make him." "I don't believe that law's used much," hazarded the old man. "It isn't," Hamilton found himself forced to admit.
The lying words died on his tongue, and turning his eyes away from the little face that he loved, he said gloomily, "What's that got to do with it anyhow? S'posin' I do hook a han'ful of peanuts sometimes. That ain't nothin'." "Tode, do you want Little Brother to hook a handful of peanuts sometimes when he gets big?" asked Nan, quietly.
"New people are coming all the time and they'll beat us in if we don't look out." His comrade shrugged. "Mebbe so; but s'posin' dey do. Wat's de hodds? She's beeg countree; dere's plenty claims." "Are there, really?" Phillips' eyes brightened. "You're an old- timer; you've been 'inside. Do you mean there's plenty of gold for all of us?" "Dere ain't 'nuff gold in all de worl' for some people."
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