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I kinder guessed we'd find a bunch o' the scrappin' critters stretched out, an' lookin' all bloody like," ventured Perk, with possibly a shadow of regret in his voice and manner, "but shucks! never a one do I set my lamps on.
"You'll have all th' scrappin' you want, if these fellows don't vamoose without firin' a shot! We was just talkin' of the best place t' put you." "Oh," murmured Bud, "all right."
I can't see no way out, Smoke, except main strength an' sweat an' to plow through. If the whole creek was glare-ice they ain't room for a dozen teams abreast. I got a hunch right now they's goin' to be a heap of scrappin' before they get strung out. An' if any of it comes our way you got to let me do the punchin'." Smoke squared his shoulders and laughed non-committally.
No one knows much about Ali, for he came here just recently. Anyhow, he and Phut didn't get along very well it seems. "Neighbors often heard 'em scrappin' a lot, and this afternoon they went at it again hot and heavy. Then things quieted down, and nobody heard anything more. Toward dark a man went in to buy a lamp.
I want to breathe air like you get in this house air that is filled with books, and pictures, and beautiful things, where people talk in low voices an' are clean, an' their thoughts are clean. The air I always breathed was mixed up with grub an' house-rent an' scrappin' an booze an' that's all they talked about, too.
"Gentlemen and brothers of the syndicate," he began, "I'm satisfied that the back-bitin', the scrappin', the petty jealousies and general cussedness that characterized our lives on the old Maggie will not be duplicated on the Maggie II. Them vicious days is gone forever, I hope, an' from now on the motto of us three should be: "All for one and one for all United we stand, divided we fall."
Brick pointed at Joe, who was forthwith dragged to the front. "Wot was you scrappin' about?" "Kites my kites," Joe spoke up boldly. "That fellow tried to take them away from me. He 's got them under his arm now." "Oh, he has, has he? Look here, you Brick, we don't put up with stealin' in this territory. See? You never rightly owned nothin'. Come, fork over the kites. Last call."
His idea was that instead of scrappin' this big army organization that it had cost so much to build up we ought to save it so it would be ready in case another country Japan maybe started anything. He thought every man should keep his uniform and equipment and be put on call. They ought to keep up their training, too.
There's nothin' in this world tickles her like a chile actin' naughty, 'ceptin' it's two chillen scrappin'. Now pore little Dinah found she had to have all her wits about her to keep Love near, an' make that ornery Slap-back stay away. Love was as willin', as willin' to stay as violets is to open in the springtime; but when Dinah an' Slap-back was both agin her, what could she do?
You know the 'frat' passed a rule that if we broke any more furniture in this house with our scrappin' we'd both be fined the cost of repairs and five dollars apiece. Well, I can afford five dollars this month better than you can, and " "I take it back!" Fred interposed, hastily. "But you just listen to me; you look out letting her think you're on her side like that." "I don't " "You don't?"
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