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Reckon they'll risk settin' fire to the cabin. I don't want to kill nobody but you keep back and if they git me, you stay right still in here. They won't hurt you." "Not if I git a bead on any of 'em!" said Young Pete, taking courage from his pop's presence. "Did you shoot any of 'em yet, pop?" "I reckon not. I cut loose onct or twict, to scare 'em off. You keep away from the window."
I run the stage line down there, about forty-six miles, twict a week. That's my livery barn over there second wooden building in the town. Sam's my name; Sam Poston." "I never heard of Plum Centre," said Franklin, with some amusement. "Is it as large a place as this?" "Oh, no," said Sam hurriedly, "not nigh as large as this, but it's a good town, all right.
Freighter Sam used to bang her head agin the door jamb about twict a week, and they got along good until he fell for a hasher in an eatin' house and quit Isabelle cold. She hit bottom pretty pronto after that." Mullendore stopped. "But my father, Pete; tell me more about him!"
You can't deceive Jupiter, me, nor any other planick. You may swim same as Leander did, but you can't deceive the planicks. Give me your hand! Times ain't so easy as they has been. So so but 'tis temp'ry. 'Twon't last long. Times will be easy soon. You may be tramped on to onct or twict, but you'll rekiver. You have talenk, me child. Then you will have large sums forty thousand dollars, perhaps.
By and by, after inquirin' several times, we found the street that went to the landin' and hurried down. Well, here was a river! How could the Mississippi be much bigger? It was twict as big as the Sangamon, or bigger, and the big sycamore trees on the other side looked a mile away.
You can put in the money we were going for, and I'll put in some more. Ought to show a handsome profit." "Might nigh double my money, maybe, eh? Figger that? Gimme twict as much to buy stock with." "Yes, indeed." "Let's dicker." "What will you men take to walk away and leave that gold?" "Forty thousand." "Fiddlesticks. I'll give you ten and you're clear of the whole mess." There was a wrangle.
"Then," said Bridget, with decision, "I've thought all round it twict an' my mind's been made to stay; we'll buy a home." She made a hollow of her two hands and called, "Whist whist there, all o' yez! Pether an' Pancho Michael Susan do ye hear!" And when she had them rounded up, she counted them twice to make sure they were all present. "Now ye listen."
He said that "this yer war" had caused such a famine among the people, that nearly all of them had been obliged to leave; some had gone to Washington and some to Richmond, "a right smart lot of them had gone to Richmond." He had "reckoned onct or twict" that he would have to go too, but he "had succeeded in hanging on so long."
Moody said to the mercenary who helped with the cooking. "And it hain't natural for a girl like her never to have comp'ny. Since she's been here there hain't been a call at the door for her nor a letter." "I hain't seen her but once or twict," said the mercenary. "If I was to meet her face to face on the street, I hain't sure I'd know it was her."
"When he finished that one, I said: 'Now, I don't like to insist but as my goods are all here it won't do any harm to look at them. "With this the old man turned on me and said: "'Looker here, young man, I've told you twict that I don't want to buy any of your goods. Now, you just get them in your grip and get them out of here right quick; if you don't I'll throw them out and you with them.
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