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Updated: July 13, 2025
"We-alls is still talkin' an' readin over our mail in the post- office, when all at once we hears Jack Moore outside. "'What's this yere literatoor as affronts my eyes, pasted onto the outside of Uncle Sam's wickeyup? says Jack, mighty truculent.
'It's where we-alls lives at; can tomatters is. "'I tells you what you-all do, says Enright, 'an' when I speaks, I represents for this yere camp. "'Which he shore does, says Jack. 'He's the Big Gray Wolf yere, you can gamble. If he don't say "go slow" when you comes a-yellin' up, your remains would a-been coverin' half an acre right now.
So, after saying a few more things to make Reddy feel uncomfortable, Unc' Billy started off up the Lone Little Path toward the Green Forest. "Too bad! Too bad!" he muttered to himself. "If ol' Granny Fox isn't smart enough to get Reddy enough to eat, Ah'll have to see what we-alls can do. Ah cert'nly will." XVI. Unc' Billy Possum Visits the Smiling Pool
"Which we-alls does as Jack says; closes the games, an' then sets 'round in our chairs an' keeps quiet, a-waitin' for the infant to turn in. A half-hour later Jack appears ag'in. "'It ain't no use, gents, he says, goin' back of the bar an' gettin' a big drink; 'that child is onto us. He won't have it. You can gamble, he's fixed it up with himse'f that he ain't goin' to sleep none to-night.
They was to hold the nose-bag; an' as votes is dropped in, they's to count 'em out accordin' to Hoyle, so we-alls can tell where the play's headin'. Bronco Charlie is jedge for Randall, an' Ormsby fronts up all sim'lar for Old Monroe. The 'lection we-alls decides to hold in the Lone Star Saloon, so's to be conducted with comfort.
Any gent who thinks he wants more is the effect victim of whims. "While we-alls is discussin' the ground plans for this yere feast, thar's a clatter of pony-hoofs an' a wild yell outside, an' next thar's a big, shaggy-lookin' vagrant, a-settin' on his hoss in front of the Red Light's door. "'Get an axe, somebody, he shouts, 'an' widen this yere portal some. I aims to come in on my hoss.
With this yere in my mind I taps her gently about our various games when I calls for her paw; an' to put it straight, she takes it reluctant an' disgusted at the mere hint. Of course we-alls has to stand these things from woman, an' we might as well p'int up some other way an' no time lost.
Not waitin' to learn its name, even, I'm directed to state as how the camp backs your play an' makes good. "'I'm allowin' to go to the States, says the girl, 'an' I'm obleeged to you. "'We was hopin', says Enright, 'as you'd stay yere. We-alls sorter figgers you'd teach us a school.
"'Oh, I don't dispoote none the efficacy of your friend's work that a-way, replies the young preacher-sharp, 'but it's irreg'lar; it's plumb out of line. Now what you-alls needs in the West is real churches, same as we-alls has in the East. "`I ain't none shore of that. I says, 'an' I'm gettin' a little warm onder the collar some with them frills he puts on; 'I ain't none shore.
Which, while the play is some onusual an' out of line, everybody agrees it's all right; bein' that we-alls is goin' to a war, that a-way. "'Now yere, goes on Enright, at the same time callin' for red-eye all 'round, is what youalls agrees is a mighty romantic deal. Yere's a love affair gets launched.
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