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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Non! Non! De treize! De, w'at you call t'irten she repe't! A'm git mor' as seex hondre dollaire " The proprietor lumbered heavily from behind the bar and Benton noted that the thick fingers closed tightly about the handle of a bung-starter.
His voice had risen, and suddenly there came a laugh from outside the door, and Concombre cut himself short and his mouth closed with a snap. It was Joe Clamart who had laughed. "I w'ip heem five time, an' now I w'ip heem seex!" hissed Bateese in an undertone. "Two time each year I w'ip zat gargon Joe Clamart so he understan' w'at good fightin' man ees. An' you will w'ip heem, eh, m'sieu? Oui?
"I weel promees in the contract to geeve you one ten tousant tollars deux mille two tousant avery yare for fife yare. Très bien. My daughtare is educate; she stoody fife, seex yare in te convent at Montreal. Zhe play on piano evare so many tune. Bien. You come Monday. We weel zee. Adieu. I mean good-by, Mistare Sonee." "Adoo, musheer," said Dave, taking his hat and leaving.
"You do washing?" demanded Mr. Adams. "Oui, m'sieur." "Here's some. When can we get it?" "To-morrow morning, at the ten o'clock. And does m'sieur wish ze repassage what you call ir-ron?" "What's the charge?" asked Mr. Grigsby. "Seex dollair the dozen, m'sieur, for ze wash; the same for ze ir-ron." "There goes your newspaper money, Adams," laughed the Frémonter.
She say, 'feefty dollaire'! Dat more as seex hondre dollaire " "It's a lie!" cried the croupier fiercely, "the thirteen don't repeat. The sixteen win you kin see fer yourself. An' what's more, they can't no damn Injun come in here an' call me no " "Hold on!" The Texan shifted his glance to the croupier without easing the pressure on the gun. "If the sixteen win, what's the fifty bucks for?
"And I'm tellin' you thees, Franke," he went on, suddenly belligerent toward the other. "If you don' t'ink I'm gettin' thee right caballo, I have you arrested for stealin' thot seex dolars thot time! Money is money, too. But a horse is a horse. I know thees horse. Thot's enough!" Yet he relapsed into a moody silence, puffing thoughtfully on his cigarette.
"Five one kin', three other kin'; no good!" said he. "She'll have to come up two, four, seex, eight the hard way for heem to come is all tam the way he'll win. You see?" he continued on shaking and thumping the bowl and catching the little disks, and as he won or lost, Alex gravely handed him the little sticks, or counters, or received them back from him as the case might be.
And it is not soon that Dannie Ross will be forgetting who it was that took him back from the camp when the disease was upon him and all were afraid to go near him, and for seex weeks, by day and by night, watched by him and was not thinking of himself at all. And sure am I that the lessons he would be hearing from his mother and in the Bible class and in the church were not lost on him whatever.
"Any man he'll drink the water on this river one time, he'll couldn't live no more without once each year he'll come back an' drink some more on that river! I'll see you again, an' bimeby you'll get so you'll could carry seex hondred poun' half a mile an' not set it down. Moise, he'll wait for you."
The two boys ran rapidly to meet Moise, and overwhelmed him with questions asked all at once. "How's everything?" demanded Rob, "and where's Jesse?" "Oh, those boy, she'll been all right," said Moise. "She'll be on camp seex, h'eight mile below here, up above, maybe so. My cousins Billy and At-tick, come through with us they'll portage half-way to-day.
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