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Updated: June 23, 2025
James and I saddled our horses and rode down the creek. Mrs Spicer looked very little different from what she did when I last saw her alive. It was some time before we could believe that she was dead. But she was 'past carin'' right enough. A Double Buggy at Lahey's Creek. I. Spuds, and a Woman's Obstinacy. Ever since we were married it had been Mary's great ambition to have a buggy.
I guess this outfit ain't got no surcingle on me." Nevertheless, he made a hurried end of his breakfast and flung out of the tent. "Y'u boys hadn't ought to wound Reddy's tender feelings, and him so bent on matrimony!" said Denver innocently. "Get a move on them fried spuds and sashay them down this way, if there's any left when y'u fill your plate, Missou."
Where are you hit?" Tommy looks up and answers, "Yes. In the leg." After dismissal from parade, we returned to our billets, and I had to get busy immediately with the dinner issue. Dinner consisted of stew made from fresh beef, a couple of spuds, bully beef, Maconochie rations and water, plenty of water. There is great competition among the men to spear with their forks the two lonely potatoes.
"But you would not want to see me working like Spuds, for instance, would you?" "And why not? He is not afraid to soil his hands at honest labor. Why he is doing so I do not know, but there must be some good reason." "Oh, I know. He wants money to help him to finish his college course. He left very suddenly, so I understand. Of course, he was not in our set, and so I know very little about him.
Beats the devil the kind of people that are taking up land. Can't develop a country with landowners like that. Those girls want to go home. Already. I said you wanted 'em to come over to dinner tomorrow noon. Maybe you can fix up something kinda special." "I'll drop a few extra spuds into the pot and bake a pan of cornbread they'll eat it," Mrs. Dunn predicted cheerfully. She was right.
Coffee and bacon and flour gravy and spuds. We'd rather wait a few minutes longer and get a square meal, wouldn't we, boys? Make yourselves at home. There's all the ground there is, to sit down on, and there's the whole creek to wash in, if the basin down there is too small. I'm going to get some clean clothes and go down to the big hole and take a plunge.
For instance, in remarking that my grandfather, Sir Timothy Collins, had been well known in connection with the turf, I omitted to explain that he was allowed to obtain it only from a specified bog, and that his custom was to sell it at the stump for so much per donkey-load, to be taken out in spuds or oatmeal. Altogether, I got on better than you might expect. Another thing. Mrs.
"I can see the `spuds' all right," said I; "but where's the Jonah?" "That be the bone, silly!" With which withering rejoinder, Larrikins left us to enjoy ourselves with the food he contemned; though he probably went away to make a hearty dinner off the same at his own mess on the deck below, where his division "hung out."
"That'll make one section they won't get, anyway." Pink gave him a startled look across the table. "You ain't going to grab it, are yuh?" he demanded disappointedly. "I sure am if it's three-hundred-and-twenty acres of land you mean. If I don't, somebody else will." He sighed humorously. "Next summer you'll see me hoeing spuds, most likely if the law says I GOT to."
And when I saw the jolly bunch come waltzing in for eats at lunch, and squaring up in natty duds to platters large of French Fried spuds, why then I'd stand right up and bawl, "I've never left my home at all!"
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