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The two boys located it atop a ridge, yon, an' as I understand, they were actually on the ground, sizin' it up, when another party jumped 'em, at the p'int o' guns made 'em vamoose, an' proceeded to hold down the claim themselves. Show yore sample, boys. What do you think o' that, men?" Charley handed out the sample.
He's 'bout as much alive an' alert 's ever he was in his nat'ral. But his ammunition's all spent, an' he's jus' waitin' his chance ter quit. He knows I've got th' bead on him. Soon's I shift my gun, he'll do a vamoose, slick, an' his braves along of him." "Then shift your gun," commanded Kiddie. "Quit shootin' an let's git outer this. Thar's a reinforcement of Injuns comin' down along the trail."
Vamoose!" said Uncle Ike, as he turned the hose on the Indian with the lasso, and drove him behind the porch with water dripping down his calico shirt, taking the color out.
Even in the darkness, lit only here and there by starlight, the scowl on his face was visible. "Tell you what," declared Mosher, an instant later. "Well?" "Beat it!" "I don't under " "Yes, you do," retorted the self-styled Mosher. "Vamoose! Twenty-three in a hurry! Make your get-away!" "Until I've made you listen to reason," Prescott insisted, "I won't leave you."
On the other hand, words which belong to quite good and ordinary speech in their own languages often become slang when adopted into another. Vamoose comes from a quite ordinary Mexican word, vamos, which is Spanish for "let us go." It is very interesting to find that many of our most respectable words borrowed from Latin have a slang origin.
Billy walked silently to this man. "What is it?" he asked, shortly. "This yere ain't in th' agreement." "I know that," replied the stranger. "Then leave yore dust and vamoose." "My dust is there," replied Black Hank, placing his hand on a buckskin bag at his side, "and you're paid, Billy Knapp. I want to ask you a question.
The struggle between them was over; she had had her way to save the preacher, impostor though he was; and now she felt, as she had never felt before in the same fashion, that this man was a man of men. "Tim, you do not understand," she urged. "You say he was a landsharp in the South, and that he had to leave " "He had to vamoose, or take tar and feathers." "But he had to leave.
"Gents," he said, stepping up, and tapping the table sharply, "you 'll have to vamoose from here." "What the hell " the gambler looked up into the gray eyes, and stopped. "That's all right, Charlie," went on Hamlin coolly, one hand at his belt. "Those are my orders, and they go. Hire a room upstairs if you want to keep on with the game. Pick up the stuff, you fellows."
Hadn't we best make sure?" "Perhaps you'd better let him vamoose," said Flood Rawley anxiously. "Jansen is a law-abiding place!" The reply was decisive. Jansen had its honour to keep. It was the home of the Pioneers Laura Sloly was a Pioneer.
He's one o' the best-hearted fellers that ever lived." Others took a less favorable view of the land-agent, and refused to trust him. Bailey assumed command. "Now, fellers," he said, "we'll vamoose the ranch while Mrs. Burke turns in."
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