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It's one thing for a bluffin' Ute to walk up in the daylight when you've got a fair chance to give him as good as he sends, and its another thing for him to get a bead on you a sittin' in the light o' yer camp fire him in the dark." Elmer saw and understood. So night fell in silence with Buck and Elmer keyed up and ready to meet any possible attack.
The time of day was early for Leeby to gossip, but I detained her for a moment. But he's lookin' for't. He was ben in the room searchin' the drawers when I was up i' the toon in the forenoon. Ye see he pretends no to be carin' afore me, an' though my mother's sittin' sae quiet-like at the window she's hearkenin' a' the time. Ay, an' he thocht I had hod it up here."
Roger and me will have to be what was it that lecturin' professor called it 'deodorized' every mornin' after feedin' and cleanin' the critters. We'll have to put on our go-to-meetin's, instead of sittin' down in our shirt-sleeves comfortable like. I hain't no unison with it, and it's been a-growing on me ever since that city chap persuaded you into being cook and chambermaid for his family."
'Have ye not lost him? sez Vulmea, wipin' the sweat on him; 'Let's ha' done quick! 'Quick ut is, sez Kiss t'rowin' him the kyard; an' ut fell face up on his knee Black Jack! "Thin they all cackled wid laughin'. 'Duty thrippence, sez wan av thim, 'an' damned cheap at that price! But I cud see they all dhrew a little away from Vulmea an' lef' him sittin' playin' wid the kyard.
Maggs hasn't a sittin' room of her own where she and the butler and the nurse can have their tea in peace or entertain guests, but she sets two tables in the servants' hall, and a pretty time she has of it.
"Well!" exclaimed Larry. "Maybe the gent don't like the way we been runnin' this game in other ways. Maybe he's got a few more suggestions to make, sittin' in? I like to be obligin'." He grinned, and the effect was ghastly. "Thanks," said Andy. "That lets me out as far as suggestions go."
I did my best to reason with Job and to enlarge his conception of the life to come and of the progress of the soul after death, but I made little impression on his mind. A heaven without forges, fox-hunting and hen-coops offered him no possible attraction. "What thou says may be true," he would answer, "but it'll noan be Job Hesketh that's sittin' theer. It'll be somebody else o' t' same name."
It come about like this: One day, a few year back, I was sittin' on the beach at Santa Barbara watchin' the sky stay up, and wonderin' what to do with my year's wages, when a little squinch-eye round-face with big bow spectacles came and plumped down beside me.
"Ever sinch 'leven o'clock, Conshance," supplemented Freddie, trying to frown. "My dear Miss F-Fowler," began Odell-Carney in, his most suave manner, "it is after two o'clock. In in the morning at that. You you shouldn't be sittin' here all 'lone thish this hour in the morning. Please come home with us. Your mother hash has ask us to fetch you I mean your sister. Beg pardon."
He's surely game from the toes up. Think of him sittin' there reading the newspaper half an hour after he held up the Limited!" "Did he do that, Bucky?" The sheriff's tone conceded admiration. "He did. He's the only train robber ever in the business that could have done it. Oh, the Wolf's tracks are all over this job." "No doubt about that.
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