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Updated: May 29, 2025
And she, girls are so queer, the best of 'em, from the very fact that his affection wuz so patronizin' and down stoopin' to her, and kinder oncertain, for onlike Royal he would have spells of slightin' her and waitin' on other girls, why mebby for this very reason she seemed to be carried some distance away with him, and believed all his grand idees and looked forward to the realization of his stupendious schemes, high soundin' schemes, which had took him no furder than the middle of the creek and his uncle's back yard.
Down home, one time," put in a second, "there was a vaquero with a red sash that was stoopin' to fix a flank girth, and " "Why, that ain't a two-spot to what happened in Kansas a year ago this summer. The purtiest gal I ever seen you know them Kansas gals can be purty she had a wig that'd keep your hands warm in January. Well "
I was stoopin' over the edge of the lake to get some water in my hat an' my powder-flask slipped off an' went, kersplash, down to the bottom! The water was so clear I could see it layin' down there, as plain as could be, fifty feet down, I reckon, fer them mountain lakes is prodeejus deep.
Teeshie Halpin's taken a notion of him since he straightened up, an' as sure as you're living she'll have him the minute they can scrape a few ha'pence thegether to buy a wheen of furniture. Well, if the Volunteers never does no more nor that, they'll have done well, for dear knows, Andy Gebbie was an affront to the Almighty, an' him stoopin' that way!" "But are they going to fight, Sheila?..."
I twisted it out from under the edge of the bag. 'All right, he says, and he slipped back the chain and in I went, stoopin' down as if it weighed a ton. "'Where'll I put it? I says. "'In the box, he says, walkin' toward the grate. 'Have ye brought the bill? "'I have, I says, still keepin' me head down. 'It's in me side pocket. Pull it out, please, me hand's that dirty' and out come the writ!
From babyhood he had suffered from a grievous deformity which rounded his little shoulders and bowed the frail form. It was characteristic of the kindly folk of the neighborhood, that, instead of calling the boy Hump-backed or Crooked-backed Jacob, they gave him the name of Stoopin' Jacob, as if the bowed and bent posture was voluntary, and not enforced.
Then one of the men cried: "They're stoopin', boys! They're comin'!" The wild geese, coming down a magnificent slant from a mile height, headed straight for Yankee Bar. Will birds never learn? They ploughed down with their wings folding, and poised. Their voices grew louder and louder as they approached.
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