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Updated: June 29, 2025
Didn't seem like I'd been poundin' my ear more'n half an hour, and I was dreamin' something lovely about doin' one of them pelican dives off a pink cotton cloud, when I feels someone shakin' me by the shoulder. I pries my eyes open, and finds one of the crew standin' over me, urgin' me to get up. "Wrong number, Jack," says I. "I ain't on the night shift." "It's the young lady, sir," says he.
But I kept urgin' and arguin', and at last they gave in. They'd show me the outsides, anyway; that is, Luella might, if she wanted to. Mrs. Pedders didn't even want to see the box. "I meant to have burned them long ago," says she. "They're just letters from idle, cruel people, that's all. And you don't know how many such there are in the world, Mr. McCabe. I hope you never will know.
From the way he drew away from the boys, I wouldn't have placed any money that he was wrong either. I've always wondered how the old man ever got through that war with only three recommendations to the government. He certainly kept good horses too, for in five minutes we'd left the posse behind, and I saw him madly urgin' his horse into range, reloadin' as he came.
By urgin' on the lad's nateral desire you make it hard fer him an' fer me." "All right, Rifle-Eye," said Bob-Cat good-humoredly, "you've got me. I reckon I passes up this hand entire." He nodded and began to stroll away. But Wilbur called him back. "Oh, Bob-Cat," he cried, "aren't you going to saddle him for me now?" The cowboy turned and grinned.
No my mind's made up an' indeed " here his voice sank to a great calmness and philosophy, like a man who was above all human passion, and who could consequently talk in a voice of cool and quiet determination; "An' indeed," he added, "my conscience was urgin' me to this for some time past so that I'm glad things has taken this turn."
"'I'll bet you a hundred, sez I, 'that I don't, for I've signed papers as keeps me ashore, an' the parson has witnessed the deed. "So we sat there, he urgin' me to ship, an' I chaffin' him cheerful over the bottle.
Then, with me leadin' the way and him urgin' her on from behind, we starts on our shoppin' expedition. "It's to be a complete outfit, from the ground up, ain't it?" says I. "That's it," says Mr. Leavitt. So, instead of botherin' with any department stores, I steers 'em straight for Madame Laplante's, where they set you back hard, but can furnish a whole trousseau, I'm told, at an hour's notice.
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