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He'd go straight up in the air. He wouldn't wait for no breakfast." "I betche there'll be a killin' yet, before we're through with them sheep," gloomed Happy Jack. "When sheepherders starts in once to be ornery, there ain't no way uh stoppin' 'em except by killin' 'em off. And that'll mean the pen for a lot of us fellers " "Well, by golly, it won't be me," Slim declared loudly.
"Aye, this air 'll do yer," said the other. "Where are yer stoppin'? Costrells'?" John nodded. "They don't know nothin' about my comin', but I dessay they'll find me somethin' to sleep on. I'll 'ave my own place soon, and some one to look arter it." He drew himself up involuntarily, with the dignity that waits on property. A laugh, rather jeering than cordial, ran through the group of labourers.
"Did he go down to the pint," asked Captain Corbet, "or up to the top of the cliff?" The man couldn't say for certain; but as far as he could recollect, it seemed to him that he went down to the pint. "About what time?" "Between eight and nine o'clock in fact, about eight not much later." "Did he speak to any one here?" "No; he walked past without stoppin. An do you say he ain't got back?"
Brown says he can't understand any of it; he says the stuff must be stirred in a barrel for two hours without stoppin' an' he says he'll let any man breathe a suspicion as his mother stopped after he once set her at it! Mrs.
"There was a pretty dido goin' on atween the dree, an' all talkin' together the two men mobbin' each other, an' the girl i' the middle callin' em every name but what they was chris'ened, wi'out distinction o' persons, as the word goes. "'What's the uproar? asks Ould Wounds, stoppin' the tap-tap o' his crop, as they comes up. "'The woman b'longs to me, says the first.
'Bout what did ye figger on wantin'?" "Anything you can spare," said the youth. "There are three of us and we're awful hungry." "Where yew stoppin'?" asked the woman. "We're at the old Squibbs' place," replied The Kid. "We got caught by the storm last night and had to put up there." "The Squibbs' place!" ejaculated the woman. "Yew didn't stop there over night?" "Yes we did," replied the youth.
Pony got mad too, for hosses has tempers as well as Elders; so he turned to, and kicked right straight up on eend, like Old Scratch, and kept on without stoppin' till he sent the Elder right slap over his head slantendicularly, on the broad of his back into the river, and he floated down thro' the bridge and scrambled out at t'other side. "Creation! how he looked.
A frightened look the first that any one had ever seen in the clear eyes of the Bell-ringer of Angel's passed over them, and he murmured tremulously: "All right I'm stoppin'!" So, too, was his heart, for the wonderful eyes were now slowly glazing. Yet he rallied once more coming up again the third time as it seemed to Wayne and his lips moved slowly.
"I was aiming in a general eastern direction," Rathburn replied in a drawl. "Is there any law against ridin' hosses in this here part of the country?" "Not at all," replied the deputy heartily. "An' there's no law against drivin' automobiles or trucks. But there's a law against stoppin' 'em with a gun." "So," said Rathburn. "You stopped because you saw my gun? An' I'm to blame, for it?
That's what I'd have done if I'd been a man, Simmy. And instead of stoppin' it, do you know what I did? I went down there and stood up with old Thorpe as his best man. Can you beat that? His best man! My God! Wait a minute. See, he was sittin' just like you are—lean back a little and drop your chin—and I was standing right here, see—on this side of him. Just like this.
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