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The sheriff made a suggestive motion with his hand in the direction of his neck. Evidently the red-headed man understood. "Oh, I'll go, all right, sheriff. I kinder hed a sneakin' notion fur a long time thet yuh hed it in fur me. How long do I git?" he whined, as his hands were bound fast behind his back. "We'll give yuh jest twelve hours arter we git tuh Morehead.
"It was only toward the last that she took to sneakin' out after she pretended to go to bed.. gangs of boys an' girls, mixed, would come an' whistle soft fer her, under the window ... an' strange men would sometimes hang aroun' the house ... till Josh went out an' licked a couple. "It drove Josh nigh crazy.
Seeing which his father quickly regained the paper, but continued his objurgation. "How dare you? Clear off to bed, will you! Do you hear me? Pretty goin's on," he added as if to justify his indignation. "Sneakin' in here and and lyin' 'round at this time o' night! Why, if I hadn't come in here to"
The squaws an' the young 'uns are sneakin'. You hear to me thar'll be hell to pay here soon." So while the braves were gathered about the trader and were draining cups of fire-water, the travelers made haste to mount and get around the village and back into their trail with the herd.
"He began, talkin' right loud an' rockin' his chair right fast: 'An' Solomen, the wise man, says to his Democrats that if a step-darter treats her Pappy mean, an' hides things, she'll go down down down down an' all this time, Miss Jane, his voice was gettin' lower an' lower till, when it couldn't go no lower, he gurgled: 'ter hell! Then he'd wait awhile, lookin' sort of sneakin' at me, turn some pages an' do it all over again only each time he'd begin in a higher pitch so's he could get moh 'downs' in it, an' make it sound scarier.
Of course I might have sent him an p'r'aps one o' the others to their long home from where I stood; but I've always had an objection to shoot a man behind his back. It has such a sneakin' sort o' feel about it! An' then, the others I couldn't see how many there was would have swarmed out on me, an' I'd have had to make tracks for the scrub, an' larn nothin' more.
Larry went about the machinery-crowded room securing every object that a lurching ship might send flying from its place. When he returned to the fire-room he heard the water-tender shouting: "Sullivan, you're loafin' on your job! Get more fire under that boiler!" "An' ain't I doin' double work, with that damn Mouse forever sneakin' up to the engine-room?"
The latter, however, he determined upon. Drawing from his pocket a revolver, he again approached Emily. "What's all this about?" said Jerry, as he entered the cabin. "Save me, sir, save me from these villains!" exclaimed Emily, whose piteous accents penetrated the heart of the honest woodman. "That I will, ma'am. Why, you infarnal, sneakin' whelp of an alligator, whar's your conscience?
"I ain't ever seen you hit anything but a woman, an' a girl, or some poor animal that didn't dare bite back. You're a coward, Jed Hawkins, a low-down, sneakin, whiskey-sellin' coward and you oughta die!" Even Peter sensed the cataclysmic change that had come in this moment between the two big rocks.
"Lie still, yer sneakin' coyote of a road agent," said the man, "or I'll blow yer so full of lead that yer couldn't float in Salt Lake." I preferred to take his advice, and lay quiet while the cowboys gathered. From all directions I heard them coming, calling to each other that "the skunk that shot the woman is corralled," and other forms of the same information.
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