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Updated: May 6, 2025
If you have to go across his range, go quick and tell your men the same. I want them dam' tail-twisters up in that Four Peaks country to know that it pays to be decent to a sheepman, and I'm goin' to show some of 'em, too, before I git through! But any time my sheep happen to git on your range, Mr. Hardy," he added reassuringly, "you jest order 'em off, and Mr.
Their idea was to please both the mollycoddle vote and the vote of the international tail-twisters by upholding, with pretended ardor and mean intelligence, a National policy of peace with insult. I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed.
"I command the Imperial Guard Battalion of the old regiment, my son," he replied. "Guard which? They've been Fusiliers since Fontenoy. Don't pull my leg, Boy." "I said Guard, not Guard-s. The I. G. Battalion of the Tail-twisters. Does that make it any clearer?" "Not in the least." "Then come over to the mess and see for yourself. We aren't a step from barracks. Keep on my right side.
We had met first, twenty odd years ago, at the Indian mess of the Tyneside Tail-twisters. Our last meeting, I remembered, had been at the Mount Nelson Hotel, which was by no means India, and there we had talked half the night. Boy Bayley had gone up that week to the front, where I think he stayed a long, long time. But now he had come back. "Are you still a Tynesider?" I asked.
I could go on with a dozen of 'em; but I sat down to write you a Christmas letter, and nothing else. The best news I have for you is not news at all, but I conceive it to be one of the best hopes of the future. You see our blackleg tail-twisters have the whole thing backward. They say we truckle to the British. My plan is to lead the British not for us to go to them but to have them come to us.
Slapping his black mule over the ears with his hat he held straight for the opposite shore, cursing and brandishing his gun. "You dam', cowardly passel of tail-twisters!" he cried, shaking his fist at the bluffs, "why don't you come out into the open like men?" But a grim silence was his only answer. "Hey, you bold bad man from Bitter Creek, Texas!" he shouted, riding closer to the beach.
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