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"Now, in a case of this kind I jus' get plumb fightin' mad. I want to bore somebody. I guess it's the only kind o' procedure that comes easy to my hand. I guess you're right, but I hate to let anybody have the laugh on me." Y.D. looked down the valley, shading his eyes with his hand. "That son-of-a-gun has got a dozen or more stacks down there.
Steve Russell was playing stud poker at a table a few feet from him. The cowpuncher looked up and waved his hand. "See you in a minute, Dave," he called, and as soon as the pot had been won he said to the man shuffling the cards, "Deal me out this hand." He rose, stepped across to Sanders, and shook hands with a strong grip. "You darned old son-of-a-gun! I'm sure glad to see you.
They happened to meet the other day. And the Crown Prince said: 'Say, pop, what got us into this war? "The Emperor replied, 'My son, I was deluded. "'Oh, sire, impossible! exclaimed the Prince. 'How could it be? "'Well, some years ago I was visited by a grinning son-of-a-gun from New York no other than the great T.R. I took him around. He was most interested in my troops.
This man was one of four or five who stood in a group with the miller during the interview. "You seen that smooth-faced old cuss?" Laban said to father, after we had got outside and were returning to camp. Father nodded. "Well, that's Lee," Laban continued. "I seen'm in Salt Lake. He's a regular son-of-a-gun. Got nineteen wives and fifty children, they all say. An' he's rank crazy on religion.
He's down in the river field with the boys, but he'll be back directly. Greatest kid you ever saw, Ford! Only seven, and he can ride like a son-of-a-gun, and wears chaps and spurs, and can sling a loop pretty good, for a little kid! Come on!" "Wel-ll, all right but Lordy me! I do hate to, Ches, and that's a fact. Women I'm plumb scared of.
The son-of-a-gun hollad so freely at the bank, the president awde'd the cashier to get shed of the out-ragious bird, or he would wring its neck. "So Hank and Willomene stayed a week up in Livingston on her money, and then he fetched her back to Gardner, and bought their grub, and bride and groom came up to the camp we had on Galena Creek. "She had never slep' out before.
I'll fire him myself, maybe, before I leave. Yes," he added, thinking swiftly of Josephine as the object of Dick's desires, "that's what I'll do. Maybe it'll save a lot of trouble while I'm gone. He's a tricky son-of-a-gun." "You're dead right; he is," Jim agreed. And then, dryly: "Grandmother just died?" "Oh, shut up. This ain't an excuse it's business.
"Did ye hear him squeal?" said Si, as he dropped upon the ground and began to reload with all his might. "I hit that son-of-a-gun, sure. Give 'em H Hail Columbia, Shorty. We'll show 'em that the 200th Ind. is in front to-day!" "Forward, men!" shouted the officers. "Go right for 'em!"
"I wouldn't let yuh go, only I don't know what the devil's keepin' that fool Bud," growled Lynch. "Yuh tell the son-of-a-gun I ain't expectin' him to stop in town the rest of his natural life. If them wagon-bolts ain't come, we'll have to do without 'em. Yuh bring him back with yuh, an' see yuh both get here by dinner time without fail."
You see I had to bring him a pretty good polt, so as to lay him flat, else he might ha' found it all out, the good-for-nothing son-of-a-gun, to go to sarve a warrant on an old man, just for speaking his mind in meeting. I go in for liberty. And then to insult you and me, Prime, by asking us to help him! But I didn't mean to strike you, except in the way of friendship."
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