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Updated: June 17, 2025
Then his eye passed to the long table in the center of the hall, a table black as ebony, and gleaming with wrought silver and gold. In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst. "This's the dinin' room," observed Master Freddie. "How you like it, hey, ole sport?"
Oi wud do betther to whack a man wid a shillelah. And fwhere is the flint to stroike foire?" "O, the flintlock's played out, you flannel-mouthed Irishman," said Shorty irritably. "It's as out-of-date as a bow and arrer. This's a percussion-lock; don't you understand? This is a cap. You stick it right on this nipple, an' when the hammer goes down off goes your gun. Don't you see?"
Once he rode up alongside me and said: "Dad, this's great, but I'd rather do like Buck Duane." The boy had read all of my books, in spite of parents and teachers, and he knew them by heart, and invariably liked the outlaws and gunmen best of all. We made camp at sunset, with a flare of gold along the west, and the Peaks rising rosy and clear to the north.
The sight of the dying men on each side shriveled his heart with a deadly panic. "O, Kent," he groaned, "Lemme go, and let's git out o' here. This's just awful, and it'll be ten times wuss in another minnit. Let's git behind that big rock there, as quick as the Lord'll let us."
This's a mighty valuable train to risk, but it ought to go through, for we don't know how badly they may need it. You tell your engineer to go ahead carefully and give two long whistles if he sees anything dangerous." "I'll go and git onto the engine with him," said Shorty. "Wait a little," said Si.
"Goodness gracious!" ejaculated the Deacon, holding out the gun as he did Si the first time that interesting infant was placed in his hands, "handlin' other people's money's always ticklish business, but this's a leetle the ticklishest I ever heard of."
The second day after Ladd had been given such thin nourishment as he could swallow he recovered the use of his tongue. "Shore this's hell," he whispered. That was a characteristic speech for the ranger, Gale thought; and indeed it made all who heard it smile while their eyes were wet.
"Didn't happen at all, 'twas jess done by live men, and in a powerful few minutes at that. Sort o' shows what we're approachin' unto, as it were, eh? Not but they's plenty behind us done the same way, all the way back into Kentuck', as you already done see; but this's been done sence the last rain, and it rained night afore last."
They were rapidly learning the lesson that the regiment and its reputation were the most important things in the whole world. "Come along, and le's draw our rations," said Si. "And you boys want to keep in mind that this's all you'll git for three days, and govern yourselves accordingly. The 'Leventh Commandment is to take all that you kin git, and take mighty good care of it after you git it "
Kells was sitting at the table and being served by Bate Wood. "Hello, Dandy!" he greeted her, in surprise and pleasure. "This's early for you." Joan returned his greeting and said that she could not sleep all the time. "You're coming round. I'll bet you hold up a stage before a month is out." "Hold up a stage?" echoed Joan. "Sure. It'll be great fun," replied Kells, with a laugh.
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