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Funny, a man is all randy with his tail up when he's doin' the chasin', but you git mighty dry-mouthed an' spooky when the cards is slidin' the other way 'crost the table. Seems like we has been chased back an' forth over these heah rivers so much, they ought to know us by now. An' be a little more obligin' an' do some partin', like in that old Bible story let us through on dry land.
Having assured his wife before leaving home, and the alarmed Miss Donaldson subsequently, that there was to be no trouble whatever everything would be settled as smooth and easy as slidin' downhill; "that feller won't make any fuss, you'll see" having thus prophesied, the captain felt it incumbent upon himself to see to the fulfillment.
With them ridin’ point we’re sure slidin’ th’ groove. Me, I’ll be glad to hit town. I’d shore like to keep th’ barkeep busier than a beaver buildin’ hisself a new dam. Though with th’ Old Man off reppin’ for th’ law down along the border and needin’ hands back on the Range, we swallows down th’ dust nice an’ easy an’ takes it slow.
"Well, well!" says I. "What's all this mean, old son? Been buyin' out the spark shop? I expect somebody's going to get a weddin' present, eh?" "Not not exactly," says Vincent, his cheeks pinkin' up and his right hand slidin' toward his coat pocket. "Oh, ho!" says I, grabbin' the wrist and exposin' the little square package. "A ring or I'm a poor guesser.
When everything was in order, and you was ready, you could cut a door right through into the new dining-room, and there you'd be. They've got so in the way of slidin' buildings along on timbers now that they can travel about almost like the old stage coaches, and you needn't have your cellar dug until you're ready to clap your new dining-room right over it." Mrs.
"It ain't paralysis," he said. "They call it 'shock and exhaustion'; but it's more than that. It's just my time. I've heard the call. We've all been slidin' on thin ice this long time and it's broke under me " "Eskew, Eskew!" remonstrated Peter Bradbury. "You'd oughtn't to talk that-a-way! You only kind of overdone a little heat o' the day, too, and "
Deborah leaned forward; her face worked like the breaking up of an icy river. "Be you sure?" said she. "Ezra told me last night," interposed Mrs. Ray. "I had a hard time gettin' it out of him; he promised Ephraim he wouldn't tell. But somethin' he said made me suspect, an' I got it out of him. He said Ephraim told him he run away, an' he left him there slidin' when he came home.
He even went so far as to give Edna a dressing room to herself, to the unspeakable envy of the three other amateur ladies of previous acquaintance. Edna was nonplussed, and it was not till she met Charley Welsh in the passage that light was thrown on the mystery. "Hello!" he greeted her. "On Easy Street, eh? Everything slidin' your way." She smiled brightly. "Thinks yer a female reporter, sure.
"'Twas in the barn that they built what Whiskers called the 'flyin' stage. 'Twas a long chute arrangement on trestles, and the idea was that the aeroplane was to get her start by slidin' down the chute, out through the big doors and off by the atmosphere route to glory. I say that was the IDEA. In practice she worked different.
"They don't steer as well on land as on sea," replied Hardy. "'Cause they ain't used to such craft, you see that's w'ere it is, sarjint," said the old salt, removing his pipe for a moment. "Just look at 'em some comin' along sidewise like crabs, others stern foremost. W'y, there's that grey craft wi' the broad little man holdin' on to its tail to prevent his slidin' over its head.
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