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Because that's the maid I'm goin' to marry, and I'm off to Ardevora to do it straight. Another pot of beer, please, missus." "You've had a plenty, sir, seemin' to me," answered up the landlady, while the company tittered. "And is this the way" Billy stood up very dignified "is this the way to welcome home a man who bled for his country?
No, no, master: they know the weather hereabouts, and we don't. We've been reckonin' this for a thunderstorm a short blow and soon over. They know better, seemin' to me. Else why don't they tack alongside and finish us?" "I believe you are right," said my father, after a long look to windward. "And I'm sure of it," insisted Billy.
If 'twan't for seemin' to show interest in the baggage, dummed if I wouldn't up and ask her." "Names don't count," said Old Man Bogle, oracularly. "She hain't to blame for pickin' her name. Her ma gave it to her out of a book, seems as though. Nevertheless, 'tain't no fit name for a woman, and, so fur's I kin see, she fits her name like Ovid Nixon's tailor pants fits his laigs."
"Well, look'ee here," spoke up Billy, "our little agreement holds, don't it? that is, if we ever get out of this here mess, and Selina hasn't gone and taken a husband. Play fair, leave it to the maid, and let the best man win; that's what we shook hands over. If that holds, seemin' to me the rest can wait."
Poor Jack thrimbled from head to foot and small wonder he did but, not a bit daunted, he went on to meet the dhragon, and no sooner were they met than he to it and the dhragon to it, and they fought and sthrove long and hard, the wildest fight by far that poor Jack ever entered into, and they fought that way from early mornin' till the sun went down, at one time Jack seemin' to be gettin' the betther of the dhragon, and the next minute the dhragon gettin' the betther of Jack; and when the sun went down they called a truce of peace till next day; and Jack dragged himself back to the cabin in small hopes of being able to meet the dhragon more, for he was covered over with wounds from head to foot.
But these two was at it every night, and finally they done just like I told the young fools they'd do they lost all they had. They come into the Commercial House one night where I was settin' lookin' over a time-table, both seemin' down in the mouth. And all to once this sick young man Mr. Hoover, his name was bust out cryin' him bein' weak or mebbe in liquor or somethin'.
"Now this yere Cape is shy an eye, where an Apache pokes it out with a lance, back in Cochise's time; an', as he regyards his countenance as seemin' over rocky, bein' redooced to one eye as I relates, he sends East an' gets a glass eye.
Nine beautiful figgers with heads bowed down in grief wuz bearin' garlands of flowers to strew above the beloved head, Youth, Middle Age and Old Age all bearin' their different garlands and seemin' to feel real bad, even the mighty angel who guarded the open door of the tomb had his head bowed in sorrow.
Seemin' to me, you baint. You don't show enough of the bright side. Now, as I go along, my very toes keep ticking salvation. Down goes one foot, 'Glory be! Down goes the other, 'A-men! Aw! I must dance for joy!" He got up and danced around the kitchen. "I wish the man would go," Humility thought to herself. His very next words answered her wish. "I'll be leavin' to-morrow, friends.
I stepped out before the rest, seemin' to be awful anxious to be at the savages, tripped my foot on a fallen tree, plunged head foremost into a bush, an of coorse, my carbine exploded! Then came such a screechin' from the camp as I never heard in all my life. I rose at once, and was rushing on with the rest, when the captain called a halt.
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