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Updated: June 14, 2025
'I ain't a mite afraid of nothin' when that bald head of your'n is in sight, an' you understand a feller it's a tough play for a rooster that don't come by sand natural. "'You got plenty of sand, Pete, says I, 'all the trouble is, you let it git choked in your hoppers. By-by. And away I went, slopin' fast, with Pete's forty-eight dollars down in my jeans.
On the side of a slopin' hill at the bottom of the long flight of stairs, that lead up to the north entrance of Agricultural Hall is the most wonderful clock that wuz ever seen on this globe, and I don't believe they've got anything to beat it in Mars or Saturn.
It took me some while to get used to these slopin' kind o' rooms. I ain't from these parts. I lived to Clarksville before I was married. There, you can loop them curtains back more if you want to." "They're very pretty," commented the girl. "Yes. Of course they ain't point de spray, but they do well enough for here." "Looped back.
"Do you see that slopin' valley up through the meadow?" His voice rose suddenly to a sort of high-pitched violence. "That' passel o' hounds up there," he said, "want to build a road down my valley." He drew his breath fiercely. "They want to build a road through my land. They want to ruin my farm they want to cut down my hedge. I'll fight 'em. I'll fight 'em. I'll show 'em yet!" It was appalling.
I walked pretty quick along up the slopin' log till I was, maybe fifteen feet from the ground, and I saw Crop comin' over the ridge, in what the Doctor would call a high state of narvous excitement, with his tail between his legs, lookin' back over his shoulder, and expressin' his astonishment in a low, quick bark, at every jump, at something he seemed to regard as mighty onpleasant on his trail.
The Comstock veins, startin' near the surface, dipped toward the west, an' therefore the first great conflict came with the nearest line o' claims t' the westward. The ledges here were very rich an' almost perpendicular, an' so the slopin' shafts o' the Ophir, Mexican, etc., soon ran int' the vertical shafts on the 'middle lead.
"By the shape of his skull for one thing," explained Kiddie "the square jaw, the high cheek bones, the slopin' forehead. But more'n all I argue he was Injun because I calculate he was fixed tight in the tree, and was well on the way to bein' a naked skeleton long before any white man opened his eyes on the Rocky Mountains yes, even perhaps before the Pilgrim Fathers landed in New England.
When he spoke his expressionless face was in strange contrast with the ring, the quality, the cruelty of his voice. This voice betrayed an absence of humor, of friendliness, of heart. "Nope," replied the stranger. "Know anybody hereabouts?" "Nary one." "Jest ridin' through?" "Yep." "Slopin' fer back country, eh?" There came a pause.
I'd quit at the mat, though, and was slopin' down the front steps, when I'm held up by this sharp-spoken old girl with the fam'ly umbrella and the string bonnet. "Young man," says she, plantin' herself square in front of me, "is this Mr. Twombley-Crane's house?" "This is where it begins," says I, lookin' her over some amused; for that lid of hers sure was the quaintest thing on Fifth-ave.
Both men came near the fire, into the light, within ten feet of where the leader lay. "Fellars you ain't slopin'?" he whispered, in husky amaze. "Boss, we air thet same. We can't do you no good an' this hole ain't healthy," replied Moze. Shady Jones swung himself astride his horse, all about him sharp, eager, strung.
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