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"They put me in mind somehow of Shenstone's pastorals. How humanizing a pastoral life is, to be sure! On the whole, I admire their way of not shearing their sheep alive. It isn't stupidity, but goodness of heart. A most amiable people!" "Jest so," assented Glover. "How it must go ag'in the grain with 'em to take a skelp when it comes in the way of dooty!
An' so with vengeance eatin' at his crim'nal heart he p'ints that bronco's muzzle straight as a bird flies for Wolfville. Whoever do you-all reckon now he wants? Cherokee Hall? Son, you've followed off the wrong waggon track. Silver Phil imagine the turpitoode of sech a ornery wretch! is out for the lovely skelp of Faro Nell who detects him in his ha'r-copper frauds that time.
The auld man went down, but Nicol his son Ran awa' afore the fight was begun; And he run, and he run, And afore they were done There was many a Featherston gat sic a stun, As never was seen since the world begun. I canna tell a', I canna tell a', Some got a skelp and some got a claw, But they gar't the Featherstons haud their jaw.
He changed to the tune of a minuet, then essayed at a melody more sweet and haunting than them all, but broken ere its finish. "A hole in the ballant," commented the Provost. "Have another skelp at it, Factor." "Later on perhaps," said Sim MacTaggart. "The end of it aye escapes my memory. Rather a taking tune, I think don't you?
Captain Moon's only show is a feud. He oughter caper over an', as private as possible, arrogate to himse'f the skelp of this yere agent who abandons his relatif to them hostiles. "Wolfville listens to Captain Moon's hist'ry of his wrongs; but aside from them eloocidations of Enright, no gent says much. Thar's some games where troo p'liteness consists in sayin' nothin' an' knowin' less.
"'It'll come handy to humor up the old woman with, when I gets back to camp, he says; so he tucks the skelp into his war-bags an' thanks Mace for the interest he takes in his household. "'That's all right, says Mace; 'no trouble to curry a little short hoss like that. "He shakes hands with the Arkansaw gent, an' we-alls rounds up to Bob Step's an' gets a drink.
mighty allurin, an' tharupon Tate an' me opens a game with them Mexicans it takes five months to deal. "'But it's plumb dealt out, an' we win. When Tate crosses the Rio Grande with the army goin' back, he shorely has the skelp of every Mexican incloosive of said Princess. "'But I wanders from Willis. Where was I at when I bogs down? As I says, this
Mr. Cheerman!" exclaimed the old man, tremulously, "lemme examinate that thar wild-cat skelp. Thanky, sir; thanky, sir; I wanter see ef hain't off'n the head o' some old tame tomcat.
"A man may read without book," he said. "Go your ways, girl, and skelp both the hussies!" He drooped into a dejected heap again, oblivious of the girl, who looked at him half sadly, half angrily for an instant, and then disappeared in her turn into the causeway, calling upon her knavish heralds to wait for her.
I can locate the trouble all right, if I don't have to hang on to my skelp with both hands. You got a gun?" "Yeah. Back in Tucson I have," Johnny suppressed a grin. Bland's ignorance, his childlike helplessness away from a town tickled him. "But that's all right, Bland. We'll make 'em think we're gods or something.
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