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"Well now," Applehead began with shortwinded sarcasm, "I'm s'posed to be outa grub. Why didn't yuh up In' starve me fer a week or two, so'st I'd be gaunted up realistic? Why didn't yuh break a laig fer me, sos't I kin show some five-cent bunch in a pitcher-show how bad I'm off? Danged if I ain't jest about gettin' my hide full uh this here danged fool REELISM you're hollerin' fur all the time.
"Yes, sir," affirmed David, "I cleaned him up, an' fed him up, an' almost got 'im so'st he c'd see enough out of his left eye to shy at a load of hay close by; an' fin'ly traded him off fer another record-breaker an' fifteen dollars to boot." "Were you as enthusiastic over the next one as the first?" asked John, laughing.
Jim Parsons, feller on the big bunch o' cows that come up from the San Marcos this spring, why, he got killed night before last. I'll just take one o' his hosses, I reckon. I kin fix it so'st you kin git his saddle, if you take a notion to it."
I'll show you which room you're to have so'st you can unpack your things, an' while you're washin' up I'll get you some breakfast. You ain't had none, have you?" "No; but really, Aunt Tiny, I'm not " "Yes, you are. Don't think it's any trouble for it ain't not a mite." Willie beamed with good will. "You've landed just in time to set down with us," he remarked. "We ain't had our breakfast, either."
That notion of hitchin' a string to the slide in the stove door so'st you could open the draught without stirrin' out of your chair that took me in the night. There warn't no waitin' 'til mornin'! Long ago I learned that. Once the idee has a-holt of me there's nothin' to do but haul myself out of bed, even if it's midnight an' colder'n the devil, an' try out that notion."
Say, he's got a lot o' sassafiddity, somethin' like that, an' he says he's goin' to soak some corn in that stuff an' set it out fer hosses. Says it'll make 'em loco, so'st you kin go right up an' rope 'em. Now, ain't that the d dest fool thing yet? Say, some o' these pilgrims that comes out here ain't got sense enough to last over night."
Harum continued, "was a putty decent kind of a chap. He come up after I'd got into my togs an' pulled me here, an' pulled me there, an' fixed my necktie, an' hitched me in gen'ral so'st I wa'n't neither too tight nor too free, an' when he got through, 'You'll do now, sir, he says. "'Think I will? says I.
They tried to parallel the fence, but the horses edged away from the wind continually, so that it was difficult to keep eye upon the infrequent posts of the meagre, straggling fence that this man had put upon the "public lands." "Hold on, Sam!" cried Franklin. "Let me out." "That's right, Cap," said Sam. "Git out an' go on ahead a way, then holler to me, so'st I kin come up to you.
"I'll get a chair ready, and fix you in it, an' shove you over to the window so'st you can look out. There ain't much to see, to be sure; still the change will rest you, an' mebbe you'll sleep better after it." Ellen did not demur. Melvina had proved herself a trustworthy pilot and demonstrated that her suggestions were worth considering. "All right," she replied.
Lemme tell you, Val Peyson I ain't goin' to call you by his name no more, the dirty cur! I've been packin' that money in my stockin' for six months, jest so'st to have it handy when you wanted it. Divorces cost more'n marriage licenses, as you'll find out when you git started. And " "You why, the idea!" Val pursed her lips with something like her old spirit.
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