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Updated: May 25, 2025
What got the biggest gasp out of me though, was when Lucy Lee unpacks her collection of framed photos and ranges 'em on the mantel and dressin'-table. More'n a dozen, all men. "You don't mean, Lucy Lee," says Vee, "that these are all er on the active list?" "I'm sure I don't know what you mean," says Lucy Lee, springin' the baby stare. "They are simply some of my men friends.
You acted straight you and your men alike and every cent of the amount I've just handed to you is well deserved and honestly earned." "You trusted me you trusted the lot of us knowin' we was low-down roosters that wouldn't think twice of killin' a man for the sake of his goods? That wasn't just wise, Kiddie. We might ha' bin springin' a trap on you.
Well, here the other day he shows up at the studio with sealed envelope No. 3 in his pocket, and after springin' his usual guff about the door of fate he opens it. "Well, who's the party of the second part this time?" says I. But he just gazes at the slip of paper he's taken out and smiles mushy. "All right," says I. "Keep it to yourself. This is my busy day, anyway."
"I jumped from that plank," pointing to the gangway by which I came on board as I said this. This response of mine seemed, somehow, to put him into all the greater rage I'm sure I can't tell why. "Bad cess t'ye for an omahdawn! Sure, an' it isn't springin' joompin' I mane," he thundered in a voice that made me spring and jump both. "Where d'ye hail from, me joker? That's what I want to know.
Back of that gruff, offhand talk and behind them bushy, gray eyebrows there's a lot of fun and good nature. One of the kind that's never seemed to grow up, Uncle Kyrle is, sixty-odd and still a kid; always springin' some josh or other, and disguisin' the good turns he does with foolish remarks. And to hear him string Aunt Martha along from one thing to another is sure a circus.
"Aw, Doctor dear," said he, "manny's the time in County Inniskillen, where you come from, you've seen a wild thing, bare-footed, springin' from stone to stone on the hillside, wid her hair flyin' behind like the daughter of a witch or somethin' only half human-so belongin' to the hills an' the bogs an' the cromlechs was she.
"We'll be blamed lucky if we don't run into a prairie-fire before mornin'," Piegan grumbled. "If that wind don't let up, she'll come a-whoopin'. It'll be a sure enough smoky one, too, with this mixture uh dry grass an' the new growth springin' up. It didn't rain so hard down in this country, I notice. Ain't that a lalla of a smell?" Neither of us answered, and Piegan said no more.
"I admit it," says I; "but if you're thinkin' of springin' any hammer music on Skid, you can look for another party, for you won't get it out of me in a thousand years!" "Ah!" says he. "I see Young Lochinvar has at least one champion. Allow me to state that my intentions are pacific. My wife and I merely wish, before sailing, to pay a formal call on our daughter and her new husband.
"Ah, say!" says I. "You don't think I'm springin' any prima donna whim, do you? It's this plot to show me up through the wrong end of the telescope that gets me sore." "Scarcely lucid," says he, lookin' puzzled. "Could you put it a little simpler?" "I'll make it long primer," says I. "How do I stand here in the Corrugated?
"Then put it over the plate while I'm on my battin' streak," says I. "Who's next?" "A lady this time," says he; "perchance two ladies." And he develops that eye twinkle of his. "Huh!" says I, twistin' my neck and feelin' of my tie. "You ain't springin' any tea-pourin' stunt, are you?" "Strictly business," says he; "at least," he adds, chucklin', "that is the presumption.
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