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Updated: June 7, 2025
I had just concluded to hand over the dish-washin' right at the start, when he fished up a pipe out of a case, filled it, an' begun to puff like a grown-up, an' then I savvied that dish-washin' wasn't one of his hobbies. "Any sport here?" sez he. "If you're good at dreamin," sez I, "you can have the time of your life huntin' Chinamen.
"All ther same, ther Second should have savvied enough not to have slung you hoff ther look-hout." He nodded his head, slowly, keeping his gaze fixed on my face. "How do you mean?" I asked, puzzled; yet with a vague sense that the man understood more, perhaps, than I had hitherto thought. "I mean what's ther Second so blessed cocksure about?"
Then he ordered out a lot of stock papers, an' the first thing we knew, we was askin' him questions about things 'at we'd allus supposed we savvied from tail to muzzle. He seemed to like me more'n the rest, an' chose me out to be his ridin' pal an' what he called an A. D. Kong, which was simply the French for messenger boy; but Dick never unloaded a lot of talk about himself.
He ain't huntin' no brood mares, he's after twenty head of young saddle stock forgot to mention there was any one with him. Said it was easy to run three-year-olds off their own range single handed if you savvied horses. Called Mister Kester 'Old Pete' an' told of an orgy they had mutual in the Long Horn." Curt burst out laughing: "Can you beat it?"
"Don't you look at me!" she cried, flinging an arm across her face. "I hate you, you Man. Don't you come near me, naow! I hate you, I could kill you!" But he only smiled down upon her kindly, understandingly. "That's what the father said aye, or somethin' mighty like it; but I told him, I wrastled with him till he savvied.
Took me some time to raise anybody, and when a girl does answer all I gets out of her is a squeal and the door is slammed shut again. I was backin' off disgusted when here comes this dame with the big eyes and the grand duchess airs. "'Ah le bon Dieu! says she gaspy. 'Le soldat d'Amerique! Entrez, m'sieur. And say, even if I couldn't have savvied a word, that smile would have been enough.
Here, you attend to these formalities, but see that the Savannah gets the use of the hose. That's about how he would have put it aboard ship, but he hadn't quite savvied this shore-going chief clerk at his elbow. Toward him he didn't have that same sea-going feeling that he'd have toward one of his old ship's crew.
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