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"I wish he had come back with you it's so lonesome." There was an immediate silence and then Bowers cleared his throat noisily. "Night 'fore last was tol'able chilly in your wagon, I reckon?" Her face sobered. "It was terrible! I couldn't sleep for the cold, and thinking about and pitying the stock on the range, and anybody that had to be out in it.
He saw Tol'able sitting on a back bench; with a mutual gesture the two men rose and left the tent. "I had to bring m'wife," Tol'able explained; "did you see her sitting on the platform? She's one of the main grievers. I got some good licker in the wagon better have a comforter." They walked down to a dusty, two-seated surrey, where, from under a horse blanket, Tol'able produced a small jug.
"An' I sez, jes fool like, 'We don't like him at all, sah. "An' he sez, 'Why? "An' I sez, 'Dunno sah. "An' he sez, 'Don't he feed? "An' I sez, 'Tol'able, I spose. "An' he sez, 'Whip much? "An' I sez, 'Mighty little, sah. "An' he sez, 'Work hard? "An' I sez, 'Yes, moderate, sah. "An' he sez, 'Eber seed him? "An' I sez, 'Not ez I knows on, sah.
One day, as she was walking homeward from her lonely trysting place, she met the battered-looking man who carried medicines in his saddlebags and the Scriptures in his pocket, and who practised both forms of healing through the hills. The old man drew down his nag, and threw one leg over the pommel. "Evenin', Sally," he greeted. "Evenin', Brother Spencer. How air ye?" "Tol'able, thank ye, Sally."
"You got everything off of me but my watch," laughed Bud. "I reckon you'll let me keep that?" "Is it a good watch?" she asked, and her eyes sparkled with a great idea. "Tol'able. Cost a dollar. I lost my old watch in Criswell. I reckon the city marshal got it when I wa'n't lookin'." "Well, you may keep it for a while yet. When are you coming up to visit us?" "Just as soon as I can, missy.
But I fixed up a tol'able description, an' left out the freckles an' the temper, an' told her it was fat an' well an' a boy. That seemed to satisfy her. Its name, though, sort o' stumped me. The Tomato Ketchup called it mostly 'you-come-back-here-you-little-ape. I heard that every day. So I said, just to piece out my information, that I thought its name might be April.
I had struck the Diamond Dot in a tol'able wide variety o' moods; but I never felt like I did the mornin' I came back to ditch Barbie's weddin'. I knew 'at the chances were 'at I'd break her heart; but I had only one course open, an' I didn't intend to waver. I had gone on through to Laramie, an' had found 'at Silver Dick's wife was still there, livin' her locked-in life.
"An' I tole him 'Ole Marse Potem Desmit, sah' jes so like. "Den he sez 'Who's a oberseein' dar now? "An' I sez, 'Marse Si War', sah? "Den he sez, 'An' how do all de ban's on Knapp-o Reeds git 'long wid ole Marse Potem an' Marse Si War'? "An' I sez, 'Oh, we gits 'long tol'able well wid Marse War', sah. "An' he sez, 'How yer likes old Marse Potem?
"Quite well, Gallagher. And you?" "Tol'able, thank you." "These are my friends from the East." The Centipede foreman ran his eyes coldly over Jean's companions until they rested upon Speed, where they remained. He shifted a lump in his cheek, spat dexterously, and directed his remark at the Yale man. "I rode over to see if y'all would like to lay a little mo' on this y'ere foot-race.
"I got it down in tol'able fa'r order, too, alter de rain t'odder evenin'. Dunno ez I ebber handled a barn thet, take it all round, 'haved better er come out fa'rer in my life mighty good color an' desp'ut few lugs. Yer see, I got it cut jes de right time, an' de weather couldn't hev ben better ef I'd hed it made ter order."
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