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"Yes, he's off, but he'll come back safe." "Oh, I know that! Nothing could hurt him, but I'll miss the skeesicks." He ruminated, then said pridefully: "That boy is what my son would have been if I'd had one. You can't tell me any son of my get and raising would have talked about his reactions when this time come!" Winona winced ever so slightly at this way of putting it, but smiled valiantly.
Yuba Bill, who re-entered the room after an unsuccessful search, was loath to accept the explanation, and still eyed the helpless sitter with suspicion. He had found a shed in which he had put up his horses, but he came back dripping and skeptical. "Thar ain't nobody but him within ten mile of the shanty, and that 'ar damned old skeesicks knows it."
Work means money, money means bread, bread means life so." The big river-driver, seeing the effect of the old man's words upon the crowd, turned to them with an angry gesture and a sneer. "I s'pose Ingolby has paid this old skeesicks for talking this swash. We know all right what Ingolby is, and what he's done.
I've got to go to the Express Office anyhow to see about my passage home, and I'll just get a draft for a hundred dollars for that old skeesicks what's his blamed name? Oh, Ricketts" he made a memorandum from the letter "and I'll send it by express.
He was debarred the rude heraldry of a nickname of achievement, and in a camp made up of "Euchre Bills," "Poker Dicks," "Profane Pete," and "Snap-shot Harry," was known vaguely as "him," "Skeesicks," or "that coot."
"Why, as to that, of course I do not know what my girl will say," went on Mr. Daniel Churchill, pursing up his lips. He looked not wholly lovable to me, as he sat in his big chair. I wondered that he should be father of so fair a human being as Elisabeth. "Oh, of course that," I answered; "Miss Elisabeth and I " "The skeesicks!" he exclaimed. "I thought she told me everything."
He went away; came back with an empty tin bucket; again vanished with it full; returned and said to me: "That was Mame. She rings twice. She likes a glass of beer for supper. Her and the kid. If you ever saw that little skeesicks of mine brace up in his high chair and take his beer and But, say, what was yours?
"I'm blest!" said Gideon. "I snum to goodness!" said the dazed Sharon. "The darned skeesicks!" Merle still listened. Again he raised a now potent hand. "She says she doesn't know how she came to do it, except that he put a comether on her." He hung up the receiver and fell into a chair before the table that held the telephone. "Scissors and white aprons!" said Sharon.
"The first day he goes to the feller he picks out himself, only you come last, bein' the challenger. We'll arrange things alphabetical. Adams, you git first shot, to find out if you're popular with the little skeesicks." Adams turned redder than usual, which is saying much. "Ah I don't know nuthin' about kids," he confessed. "Catherwood see what he can do." Catherwood also proved to be modest.
A deep-voiced dog bayed loudly, and a shrill yelp cut in and clamored for recognition. Miss Conroy gasped. "It's Lion and Skeesicks. We're at Rodway's, Mr. Vaughan." Rowdy, for the second time, thanked the Lord. But when he was stripping the pack off Chub's back, ten minutes later, he was thinking many things he would not have cared to say aloud.
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