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"Look here, stranger," said Bud, and, though his voice was stern it was not unfriendly. "Maybe you are a tenderfoot, but you don't look it, and I reckon you've been around here long enough to assimilate the fact that when a stranger is found among other men's horses that stranger is due to make an explanation." "My boy, you are right!" laughed the ragged man. "Absolutely and tetotally right!
Banks, half a thousand little clipper clapper tongues would say, all at the same time, and their dear little eyes sparklin, like so many stars twinklin of a frosty night. Well, when I last see'd him, he was all skin and bone, like a horse turned out to die. He was tetotally defleshed, a mere walkin skeleton.
This yere Jackson's a lively cuss, en I 'low we'll chin till mawnin'." "Yes, Nichol, Mr. Jackson is a good friend of yours; and here is another man who is more than a friend. You remember what the surgeon at the hospital said to you?" "I reckon," replied Nichol, anxiously. "Hain't I minded yer tetotally?" "Yes, you have done very well indeed remarkably well, since you knew I was not a doctor.
Yes, as I was sayin, this "old Clay" is a real knowin one, he's as spry as a colt jet, clear grit, ginger to the back bone; I cant help a thinkin sometimes the breed must have come from old Kentuck, half horse, half alligator, with a cross of the airth-quake. I hope I may be tetotally ruinated, if I'd take eight hundred dollars for him.
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