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He had about eight hundred graded merinos and a daughter that was solid silk and as handsome as a new stake-rope on a thirty-dollar pony. And I don't mind telling you that I was guilty in the second degree of hanging around old Cal's ranch all the time I could spare away from lambing and shearing.
The audience broke into applause, but with a single glance Ventnor stilled them, and dashed straight into the melody precisely where he had left off. Archie could hardly believe his ears. Was that his old thirty-dollar fiddle? That marvellous thing that murmured, and wept, and laughed under the master hand! Oh! the voice of it! The voice of it!
They had struggled desperately to keep within the thirty-dollar limit, but it could no longer be done.
In one of his thirty-dollar riding-boots a disconcerting two-cent sort of squeak merely intensified his unhappy sensation of being motivated purely mechanically like a doll. Two of the horses that whinnied cordially at his approach were rusty roans. The third was a chunky gray.
The thing never got a chance to die, for every day, at one place or another, possible purchasers looked us over, and, as often as any other way, their comment on the king was something like this: "Here's a two-dollar-and-a-half chump with a thirty-dollar style. Pity but style was marketable." At last this sort of remark produced an evil result.
He has pride of race, I tell you, and he would be less than human if he could contemplate himself as the last of that race. "John, he did not capture that panther alive a few moments ago merely to be spectacular. His underlying reason was the thirty-dollar bounty on the pelt and the salvation of his cattle.
I guess it is; ther hain't no such farm in this part of Illinoy, nor anywhere else that I knows on. Two-story house, and painted instead of being whitewashed; blinds on the winders; no thirty-dollar horses in the barn, an' no old, unpainted wagons around; no deadened trees standin' aroun' in the corn-lot or the wheat-field not a one.
"Even in her absentmindedness she seems to have a preference for fine things, though," said Gladys, beginning to giggle reminiscently. "Do you remember the time she walked out of Osterland's with a thirty-dollar hat on her head?" Katherine rose as if to forcibly silence her, but Sahwah held her back and Gladys proceeded for the edification of the boys.
Lonesome Pete whipped one of the guns from his sagging belt and laid it close to Conniston's pillow. "That when a man's got one of them where he can find it easy he ain't got to take nothin' off'n nobody! An' one man's jest as good as another, whether he's foreman or a thirty-dollar puncher! An' bein' as we got to go to work early in the mornin', I reckon you better roll over an' hit the hay!"
"That's right," said Billy Brue, with the quick sympathy of the experienced. "That guy that doped me, he wa'n't satisfied with my good thirty-dollar wad. Not by no means! He had to go take my breast-pin nugget from the Early Bird." At eleven o'clock the next morning Mauburn waited in Mrs. Drelmer's drawing-room for the news she might have.
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