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Updated: June 9, 2025
"They hain't nothin' but low-down trash nohow They're jealous, but thar's some right upstandin' men-folks hyar fer ye ter keep company with. I reckon fust off ye needs a leetle dram hits's right chilly outside." As he proffered a flask, Brent caught the glitter of his eye, and knew that this time it would not be easy to decline.
"Ol' man Bennett," began Jerry Todd, "warn't a native of this neck o' woods. He come up from Jarsey, or some such place, and bringed his fam'bly with him, and Sally Bennett. She was his sister, and as he was a pretty upstandin' man, so was she a tall, well-built gal. She sartain made a hit up here around Scarboro and along Rollin' River.
"That's the reason, Samson. I was kinder skeered ter go through this country in the open." Samson met his eye steadily, and said slowly: "I reckon, Jim, hit moughtn't be half es risky fer ye ter walk upstandin' along Misery, es ter go a-crouchin'. Ye thinks ye've been a shadderin' me. I knows jest whar ye've been all the time. Ye lies when ye talks 'bout passin' through.
He filled a clay pipe after the meal and smoked meditatively awhile, then addressed the boy with a queer hesitancy. "Sonny," he began, "since we picked you up, I've been thinkin' every day, more an' more, what I'd give to be back at your age with another chance. Piratin' seemed a fine upstandin' trade to me when I begun, independent an' adventurous too, it seemed.
He was a brindle bull; not one o' these that look like an Injun idol, but a nice, clean-built, upstandin' feller with a quiet, business-like air. "Purty tough on the pup to be turned out to starve this way," sez I. "Who's goin' to let him starve?" sez Bill. "Come here, old feller." "Better look out," sez I, "bulldogs is fierce."
The newcomer casually inquired for the station agent and one of the fellows stared at him morosely, making no reply. The other however, supplied the curt information: "He's done gone out ter git him a snack ter eat." "I'm looking for a man named Halloway," said Brent. "A big upstandin' fellow. Maybe you men know him?"
"We-e-e-ell," he drawls, half chucklin', half sing-songy, "I wisht I could get you to kind of look around for a young fellah in thayah, sort of a well favored, upstandin' young man, straight as a cornstalk, and with his front haiah a little wavy. Would you?" "I might find fifty that would answer to that description," says I. "No, Suh, I reckon not," says he, waggin' his noble old head.
All of you give up to furrin missions to rescue naked fellers with rings in their noses. That's sympathy, hain't it? Mebby they hain't needin' sympathy and cast-off pants, but that's neither here nor there. You think they do.... Coldriver's great on sympathy, and it's a doggone upstandin' quality." Again the audience sucked in its breath at this approach to the language of everyday life.
"He jest 'lowed that if 'stid of warin' pants an' straddlin' hosses, ye'd pick ye out an upstandin' man an' wed him, thar mout come ter be some real men in ther fam'ly." The girl's face crimsoned. "I thought ye said hit war me ye fought erbout, Joe." "I did say so, Alexander." "An' ye didn't see no aspersion thet called fer a fight in ther way them words teched you?"
But instead he's wastin' his time somewheres else when he ought to be here in Lamo where's there's plenty of the kind of guys he's lookin' for. "There's only one man in the country I trust. He's John Haydon, of the Star ranch about fifteen miles west of the Rancho Seco. Seems to me that Haydon's square. He's an upstandin' man of about thirty, an' he's dead stuck on Barbara.
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