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Your child died; she had another, and all went well. But a time came mind me, a time always does come. A time came it was some while after she and I and the child returned from America when somebody she had confided her history to, told her my claim to her was a mockery, and made a jest of her belief in my right. After that she was never happy with me. She pined and pined, and socked and sighed.
Archie mortgaged the Bar L-M, he socked a plaster worth twenty-five thousand dollars on it, the day before somebody put him out. Get that?" Wayne stared at him wonderingly. Suddenly he shot out his two hands and gripped Dart's shoulders, jerking the little man toward him threateningly. "What's your game, you little crook? You lie to me and I'll come so close to killing you we'll both be sorry."
We had hardly got started before it began to rain, and just poured down all day long. But the weather was pleasant, we took off our shoes and socks and rolled up our breeches, after the manner heretofore described, and just "socked on" through the yellow mud, whooping and singing, and as wet as drowned rats. We reached Bolivar some time after dark.
Old Johnny Hardluck socked it to me, same as usual. Gosh a'mighty! The liquor died in me after a while, and I went sound asleep in the saddle, and woke up with a jar to find myself right in the middle of old Frosthead's gang; the drums "boom-blipping" and those forty-odd red tigers "hyah-hayahing" in a style that made my skin get up and walk all over me with cold feet.
After each lost battle he went among the workmen who had buried their products in casks, a sort of silo of hosiery, then, gold in hand, this Cossack of weaving bought up, from village to village, below the cost of fabrication, tons of merchandise which might otherwise become at any time a prey to an enemy whose feet were as much in need of being socked as its throat of being moistened.
Then it occurred to him "Greenways" might have seen the red end of a cigar on the "Tenby" verandah, and he added, "except an occasional cigar under medical orders." He rose from his chair and gazed pensively at his black socked feet. Miss Bibby fluttered up at once, handed back his pen, and hurriedly tore off from the block her last written sheet.
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