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Updated: June 19, 2025
You've lived among them here all your life, Louada Murilla, and I s'pose you've got more or less wonted to 'em. But if I hadn't squirmed and thrashed round a little durin' the time I've lived here, after marryin' you and settlin' down among 'em, they'd have et me, honey, money, hide, and hair. As it is, they've got their little lunch off'm me. I haven't thrashed round enough till till yistiddy."
"Oh," calmly said Grandma Keeler, "I guess he's only settlin' down." And with Grandma, indeed, the turmoils of this sublunary sphere implied only a vast ultimate settling down. But if such deep rest came to Grandpa, it was only as a dream from which he was soon to be rudely awakened. The sound of his footsteps had ceased.
If he don't go, there's a chance gone of earnin' what we need. And if he does go, I'll be at my wits' ends to kape him from settlin' that Jim Barrows. It's widows as has their trials when they've sivin b'ys on their hands, and all of 'em foine wans at that." It was a very uncertain day. Cloud followed sunshine, and a sprinkle of rain the cloud, over and over again.
But I do' know as folks would be reconciled to my settlin' down in one place. I've gathered a good many extry receipts for things, an' folks all calls me somethin' of a doctor; you know my grand'ther was one, on my mother's side." "Well, you've had my counsel for what 't is wuth," said the woman, not unkindly. "Trouble is, you want better bread than's made o' wheat."
I will never see my darling sons' faces again, but if I die without settlin' accounts wid him, may I never know happiness here or hereafter!" The usual murmur of commiseration followed this. "Well," said Owen, "whose turn comes next?" About a dozen of those who had been turned out of Drum Dhu now stood up.
"Well, so long," he said to them all in general as he turned away, "and good luck to you. You ain't makin' no mistake in settlin' here. Good-bye till I see you all again." He stepped into the buckboard and clucked to his little team, the dust again rising from under the wheels. The eyes of those remaining followed him already yearningly.
"Now if I was the settlin' kind " He paused and slowly turned toward Bartley. "A man could raise alfalfa and chickens and kids." "Go ahead," laughed Bartley. "I'm goin' to-morrow mornin'. And you say you figure to stay here a spell?" "Oh, just a few days. I imagine I shall grow tired of it. But to-night, I feel pretty well satisfied to stay right where I am." Cheyenne rose and strode to the bar.
"The matter is, them ain't fire-extinguishers at all," said the Colonel rudely, "an' wasn't, an' never was. Them things is lung-testers, an' Sally was cheatin' Skinner when she sold 'em to him. An' the reason I'm botherin' her is that she got the money fer 'em, an' she's got to find it somehow an' pay it back. An' as for me settlin' with Skinner, I ain't got nothin' to do with it.
Now, what I say is, that when a man comes to talk o' settlin' down, he's losin' heart for a wanderin' life among all the beautiful things o' creation; an' when a man loses heart for the beautiful things o' creation, he'll soon settle down for good and all. He's in a bad way, he is, and oughtn't to encourage hisself in sich feelin's.
"Is there anything I can do?" but the figure simply waved its hand and resumed: "A'm comin' tae that, but a' thocht ye wud be wantin' ma opeenion o' London. "Weel, ye see, the first thing a' did, of coorse, after settlin' doon, was tae gae roond the kirks and hear what kin' o' ministers they hae up here.
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