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"Oh, you were busy when I joined you," said John, evidently pleased with the captain's remarks about his appearance. "I had to jump for it. But you haven't answered my question. How are you?" "Tol'able, thank'e. And your folks how are they?
The two laborers tossed down their hoes and moved to the same haven. "What time is hit, Bob?" Morgan looked at his watch. "Five past twelve, Pink. Working hard?" "Yep. Tol'able big crop." He sat down at the foot of a tree and opened his dinner-pail. "Have some?" he asked, pointing the opening at Bob, who was settling into repose with his hat over his face. "No, I thank you.
The' wasn't a great deal escaped my eye, 'cause I begun to notice purty tol'able young that experience is consid'able like a bank account: takes a heap o' sweat to get her started, but she's comfortable to draw on in a pinch. Ol' man Judson was a curious affair, had his own way o' doin' every blessed thing, an' whenever he hired a man he always went through the same rigamarole.
Now the old man was mighty savin' with his cuss-words, a' he put out a purty tol'able fair grade o' grammar; but the girl had an eye in her head and an ear to listen with, an' she had been for a long time takin' notice o' the side winks o' the Easterners. Some Easterners put on their manners the same as their complexions, an' the open air is apt to put cracks in 'em.
"La, Brothah Hayward, ef it ain't you; howdy; come in." "Howdy, howdy, Sistah Griggs, how you come on?" "Oh, I's des tol'able," industriously dusting a chair. "How's yo'se'f?" "I's right smaht, thankee ma'am." "W'y, Brothah Hayward, ain't you los' down in dis paht of de town?" "No, indeed, Sistah Griggs, de shep'erd ain't nevah los' no whaih dey's any of de flock."
I want to look at the advertisements." "Yes, my dear young lady, there is Wednesday's it is only two days old. How are you, Mr. Dudley?" "Tol'able, sir, thank you." Ben was a gentleman by instinct, though his heart was heavy and the colonel a favoured rival. "By the way," said the colonel, "I wish to have an interview with your uncle, about the old mill site.
"But not where he was goin'?" "No." "Still, you can make a tol'able guess." "I'm not guessing," Casey replied. "That killing was square, sheriff." "I don't say it wasn't," Dove admitted. "I got nothing to do with that. My rule is, when there's a killin', to bring in the man who done it, and let the law 'tend to his case." "Good rule, theoretically."
Then Hamilton remembered that this lad was one of the "poor whites" of whom he had read so much, and he strolled toward the messenger who was sitting listlessly on one of the steps. "Howdy!" said the newcomer in a tired voice. Hamilton answered his greeting, and, after a few disjointed sentences, said: "You look tired. It must be a long walk from the Burtons." "Jes' tol'able," the boy answered.
That was the way he used to talk, an' some used to set him down as a tyrant, an' some had him guessed in as a rough old codger with a soft heart, everybody took a guess at him, but the blood in the turnip was that ol' Jabez Judson was purty tol'able sizey when you carne to fence him in.
That feller, Piker, was the clew, an' when I spied him in a low gamblin' room I made some little stir until I got him alone so I could talk to him. I hadn't hurt him none; but I had been tol'able firm, an' he was minded to speak the truth. He told me that Dick was in the Texas Penitentiary for life that he had surrendered himself up, an' that this was what had give him life instead of the rope.
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