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Also, she lets on she don't see whatever Dave marries Jennie for anyhow! "'At that, Jennie comes back an' reminds Missis Rucker how she herse'f done treats Mister Rucker that turrible he goes cavortin' off an' seeks safety among the Apaches. An' so they keeps on slingin' it back'ards an' for'ards for mebby two hours, an' me ha'ntin' about to chunk in a word.
"I hate him, Singleton." "Well, I reckon you ain't the only one. I ain't exactly in love with the cuss, myself. I was thinkin' of my guns when I was with him in the schoolhouse, but somehow I didn't feel like takin' a chance on slingin' 'em. I ain't tryin' to explain nothin' I just couldn't make my hands go for 'em, that's all. Hell!
I'd sure hate slingin' mud at any feller's features, much less yours, who're a good customer to me, but you're comin' the highbrow, an' you got notions of honor still floatin' around in your flabby thinkin' department sech as was handed you by the guys who ran that thousand dollar college.
"What's to be done?" asked Buell, sharply. "Thet's fer you to say," replied Bill, with his exasperating calmness. "Must we hang up here to be shot at? Leslie's takin' a long chance on thet kid's life if he comes slingin' lead round this cabin." Herky-Jerky spat tobacco-juice across the room and grunted.
"Ef any one o' them sneakin', soulless critters in the kitchen hez bin slingin' lies to ye about me or carryin' tales," broke in Mary Ellen Budd, setting every one of her thirty-two strong, white teeth together with a snap, "well ye might hev told me so to oncet without spilin' my Sunday!
"They ain't dug him up yet," he said, "but they sure are slingin' gravel. I hope to God they don't." "They won't." "Anything I can do?" The Texan shook his head: "Nothin', thanks." "Hot as hell fer June, ain't it." "Yes; who you ridin' for?" Mister Kester moved his outfit over to the south slope?" "Naw.
By and by, we picks up another lame duck and then another, feedin' 'em with chocolate and slingin' his jaw, and when we was at the limit, he halts us outside one of them stone shacks and knocks at the door. 'No soldiers here, snaps the red-headed angel, shuttin' the door right in his face.
That hole through my hand is some inconvenient, worse 'n this at over my ear. There you're doin' fine! Not a bit nervous no tremblin'. I reckon I ain't done your courage justice. I'm glad you're brave jest now you'll need to be. Well, I was hid pretty good, enough to keep them from shootin' me deep, but they was slingin' lead close all the time.
And may be you can find a pinch o' tea and a spot or two of something short. I sez, 'You shall have it all this very night. But how's your head? 'Terrible heavy at the back, he sez, 'but clear on the top. I've a'most done wi' slingin' and stealin'. The police is after me, and I'm too weak to dodge 'em much longer; they're bound to catch me soon.
Occasionally one of these potential rulers and practical slaves would come to me with white lips and unsteady pace "I say, Tom; I ain't a man to jack-up while I got a sanguinary leg to stan' on; but I'm gone in the inside, some road. I jist bin slingin' up every insect-infected sanguinary thing I've et for the last month; an' I 'm as weak as a sanguinary cat. I must ding it.
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