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Thar's a tenderfoot a-sleepin' in the room back of the dance-hall, an' he's that 'feminate an' effeet, he's got a shore-'nough bed an' some goose-ha'r pillers; which the same I do yereby confiscate to public use to take care of this yearlin'. Is the sentiment pleasin'? "'Jack's scheme is right, says Boggs; 'an' I'm present to announce he's allers right.
My jokes is good, high-grade jokes; an' when you-all talks of me bein' morose, it's a mere case of bluff. An' so Jaybird goes on a-holdin of himse'f funny ontil we- alls has him to bury. "No; Jaybird ain't his shore-'nough name; it's jest a handle to his 'dentity, so we-alls picks it up handy and easy. Jaybird's real name is Graingerford, Poindexter Graingerford.
"It's mebby the spring after we erects the Bird Cage Op'ry House, an' Wolfville is gettin' to be considerable of a camp. We-alls is organized for a shore-'nough town, an Jack Moore is a shore-'nough marshal, with Enright for alcalde that a-way, an' thar's a heap of improvements.
When 'Doby emerges he confirms them beliefs of Billy's; it's a kid shore-'nough. "'Boy or girl? says Billy. "'Boy, says 'Doby. "'Which I shorely quits you cold if it's a girl; says Billy. 'As it is, I stands by you in your troubles. I ain't none s'prised at your luck, 'Doby, goes on Billy. ` I half foresees some sech racket as this the minute you gets married. However, if it's a boy she goes.
He comes out shore-'nough, but he's organized. He's got his gun in his hand; an' also he's packin' the Deef Woman's yearlin' in front of his breast an' face. "Jack gives him the word, but Pinon Bill only laughs. Then Jack makes a bluff with his gun like he's goin' to shoot Pinon Bill, the infant, an' all involved tharin. This yere last move rattles Pinon Bill, an' he ups an' slams loose at Jack.
"'You can gamble, if anybody's plumb aware of these yore trooths, it's me, says Texas Thompson. 'When I'm down in the South Paloduro country, workin' a passel of Bar-K-7 cattle, I aids in an effort to 'lect a jedge an' institoot reg'lar shore-'nough law; an' the same comes mighty near leavin' the entire hamlet a howlin' waste. It deciminates a heap of our best citizens.
We. alls goes out, an' thar, shore-'nough, is a notice offerin' fifteen hundred dollars reward for some sharp who's been a-standin' up the stage over towards Prescott. "'Whoever tacks this up? I wonder, says Enright. `It never is yere ten minutes ago. "'Well, jest you-all hover 'round an' watch the glory of its comin' down, says Jack, a-cuttin' of it loose with his bowie, an' tearin' it up.
I 'spect de doctor would put' near die ef he knowed dat Miss Annette was a-havin' incandescent meetin's wif Carter Nelson 'most ever' day." "Is Sandy after Annette, too?" "No, sonny, no!" said Aunt Melvy, to whom all men were "sonny" until they died of old age. "Mist' Sandy he's aimin' at high game. He's fix' his eyeball on de shore-'nough quality." "Do you mean Ruth Nelson?" asked Mrs.
"Peets confides in me of an' concernin' the Major that thar's a time an' no further up the trail than five years when the Major is shore-'nough a Major; bein' quartermaster or some sech bluff in the army.
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