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"Ranse took the order for some more smokin' to San Antone with him Tuesday. Pancho rode Ranse's hoss back yesterday; and Ranse is goin' to drive the wagon back himself. There wa'n't much of a load just some woolsacks and blankets and nails and canned peaches and a few things we was out of. I look for Ranse to roll in to-day sure.
Then ye can go round be Walter's Ferry and see if they'll trust ye there." Or: "Why wasn't ye workin' on the Ditch last winter? Settin' smokin' your poipe in the tules, the wife and young ones packin' sagebrush to kape ye warm!" On the morning after their distinguished arrival, Jimmy's guests came down late to a devastated breakfast-table.
"Well, you may be sure, I stood there amazed enough, an' mad too when I heard her talk about my bein' all I was a-thinkin' I was. I was sure my husband scarce two weeks old, a husband had told all. It was too bad. I wished I had jus' said I was the Earl-ess of Random an' brassed it out. "I rushed back an' foun' him smokin' a pipe on a back porch.
"Him an' me sat a long time smokin' across th' stove. Fin'lly, says I, 'Well, I says, 'I must be movin'. 'What's th' hurry? says he. 'I've got to go, says I. 'Wait a moment, says he. 'Theresa 'll' He stopped right there f'r a minyit, holdin' to th' back iv th' chair. 'Well, says he, 'if ye've got to go, ye must, he says. 'I'll show ye out, he says.
And when I see how much comfort they get out of it, my conscience hurt me to think that I'd deprived my brother of what he got such a sight of pleasure from. Kenelm, you can begin smokin' again right off. Here's a box of cigars I bought on purpose for you; they're the kind the President smokes. "Which wa'n't a bad yarn for a church member that hadn't had any more practice than Hannah had.
Whisky and beer and all sorts o' gamblin' machines and pool sellin', and little boys no higher'n that smokin' little white cigyars, and offerin' to bet with each other on the races. And I says to Henrietta, 'Child, I don't call this a fair; why, it's jest nothin' but a gamblin' den and a whisky saloon.
"Don't know as I will," replied the tramp. "You're no gentleman; you didn't say 'please." "Come on! No bluff like that goes here," said the deputy. "Can't you see I ain't finished smokin' yet?" queried Overland. "Come on! Step along!" "No way to address a gent, you Johnny. Say, I'll tell you now before you fall down and shoot yourself.
The reply was sung through the keyhole: "'Ole Molly hyah, what you doin' dyah? Settin' in de cordner, smokin' a ciggyah." It was little Dave's voice, and was followed by a puff of tobacco smoke through the keyhole and a burst of laughter led by Phrony Tripper.
'As if it warn't bad enough for a bob a- hour, for a man to be mixing himself up with that there jolly old furniter that one 'ud think the public know'd the wery nails in by this time or to be putting on greasy old 'ats and cloaks, and playing tambourines in the Bay o' Naples, with Wesuvius a smokin' according to pattern in the background, and the wines a bearing wonderful in the middle distance or to be unpolitely kicking up his legs among a lot o' gals, with no reason whatever in his mind but to show 'em as if this warn't bad enough, I'm to go and be thrown out of employment too!
"'Twas the Cap'n himself, settin' on a pile of movin' joist and smokin' as usual. I didn't waste no time. "'Sol, says I, 'I've just come from Olive's. She's got that letter from the Omaha man. Poor thing! all alone there "He interrupted me sharp. 'Well? he snaps. 'What's it say? Will the cousin help her? "'No, I says, 'drat him, he won't!
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