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Updated: May 26, 2025
It beats the dickens how these States folks, that lives in cities, is always tryin' to imertate some other way of livin'. Why didn't they build it out of boards? They've got a saw-mill, blame 'em, and they're cuttin' off all the timber in these mountings; but they got to have logs to build their house with. Folks that builds real log houses, and not toys, does it because they ain't got no boards.
"Look at that crazy fool!" Pinkey ejaculated, aghast. "It's Canby!" Wallie exclaimed. "Nobody else! Watch him," incredulously, "tryin' to quirt his horse across the crick!" "Isn't it the ford?" "I should say not! It looks like the place but it ain't he's mixed he'll be in a jack-pot quick if he don't back out. Onct his horse stumbles it'll never git its feet in there."
"I'm not playing off! My arm is injured. And don't you strike me again, Mr. Snad, or I'll " "You will, eh?" burst out the other. "You'll threaten me, will you? Well, I'll teach you! Tryin' to pretend your arm is sprained so you won't have to work. I'll teach you! Take that!" Again the cruel whip came down with stinging force.
He did not look mean, but he had spirit. "Navvy, you've sure got bad manners," said Lake, shaking the mustang's bridle. He spoke as if he were chiding a refractory little boy. "Didn't I break you better'n that? What's this gentleman goin' to think of you? Tryin' to bite my ear off!"
And he would have gone bare-headed to the outer gate had not Chad caught him half way down the steps, thrown a coat over his head and shoulders, and gently led him back with: "'Clar to goodness, Marsa George, what kind foolishness dis yer? Is you tryin' to ketch yo' death?" Once on the outside and the gate shut, Fitz's whole manner changed.
"Oh, I began tryin' when I was about ten years old, or maybe seven. It's been so long ago I scarcely remember. But I didn't get to be what you might call a fair shot till about the time you was puttin' on your first pair of pants," he said sweetly. "There was a time, though, before that when I was about the age you are now when I really thought I could shoot. I learned better."
"Why can't youse answer when yer called? Wot you tryin' ter do light a bonfire ter save yer voice? Say, youse wanter get a wiggle on beat it quick! Dey're after you." "What?" cried Helena sharply, jumping to her feet. "After me? Who? What do you mean?" "I dunno," said the Flopper with sudden imperturbability and evidently quite pleased with the agitation he had caused.
Sheridan began to walk to and fro again, and the doctor returned gloomily to his chair. He had shot his bolt the moment he judged its chance to strike center was best, but the target seemed unaware of the marksman. "I'm tryin' to make a big man out o' that poor truck yonder," Sheridan went on, "and you step in, beggin' me to let him be Lord knows what I don't!
In their high rubber boots they splashed about Rampart in the mild, thawing weather, "tryin' to scare up a job," as one of them stopped to explain to every likely person: "Yes, sah, lookin' for any sort of honourable employment till the ice goes out." "Nothin' doin'." "Everything's at a standstill." "Just keepin' body and soul together myself till the boats come in."
It seems, from whut they write, that your uncle, by name Daniel O'Day, died not very long ago without issue that is to say, without leavin' any children of his own, and without makin' any will. "It appears he had eight thousand pounds saved up. Ever since he died those lawyers and some other folks over there in Ireland have been tryin' to find out who that money should go to.
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