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"Wanting the hat," continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, "wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.
I guess they wuz real good-lookin'. I know that the men with their turbans and long robes looked quite well, though odd. In the shops wuz the most beautiful jewelry and precious stuns, and queer-lookin' but magnificent silk goods, and cotton, and lamps, and leather goods, and weepons, etc., etc., etc.
"Miss Westfall," he said, "Miss Diane she says she's a-goin' to a spot by the river and camp a week an' an' if she finds anybody a-follerin' or spyin' on her from the farm, she'll skin him alive an' an' them black eyes o' her'n snapped fire when she said it. An' Johnny, he's got weepons 'nough with him to fight pirutes."
"One day Lem sent word to my pappy to meet him without no weepons an' shake han's an' make it up." Her face took on a look of bitterness and hate which almost made her hearer shiver, so foreign was it to the fresh, young brightness he had watched till now. "My daddy come, at th' ap'inted time," she went on slowly, "but dad he knowed Lem Lindsay, an' never for a minute trusted him.
"I'll be ready in a brace of shakes; I've only to get my `weepons' as our Scotch doctor calls them, and I'll be on deck again as soon as you are." Having already so successfully enacted the part of a petitioner, I determined to try my luck once more, and accordingly hunted up the Honourable Mortimer, who had retired to his cabin.
Truly I felt relieved, and sez I to myself, "What would wimmen do if it wuzn't for these little weepons they hold in their hands, to control their pardners with." I felt happy. But the next words of Josiah knocked down all that palace of Peace, that my soul had betook herself to. Sez he, "Samantha Allen, before I leave Saratoga I shall Toboggen."
My grandfather, who's the easiest gent to get along with in matters of mere detail, is agree'ble; an' as neither him nor Witherspoon has brought their weepons, the two vice pres'dents, who's goin' to act as seconds the pres'dent by mootual consent dealin' the game as referee rummages about air' borrys a brace of Looeyville rifles from members of the Black B'ar Glee Club they're the barytone an' tenor an' my grandfather an' the scandal-mongerin' Witherspoon is stood up.
“Reckon dat heifa ‘Milky’ look black side li’le Verdon dat time,” chuckled Aunt Belindy. “Jis’ uz w’ite uz Unc’ Hiurm’s shurt an’ a trimblin’, an’ neva say no mo’ ’bout shootin’. Den ole Grammont, he kine o’ hang back an’ say, ‘You git de jestice de peace, ’hine you, kiarrin’ conceal’ weepons dat a-way, Grégor.’
Peets is haughty an' sooperior on the few o'casions when he onbends in battle, an' comports himse'f like a gent who fights downhill; the same, ondoubted, bein' doo to them book advantages of Peets which elevates him an' lifts him above the common herd a whole lot. Enright who's oldest is of course slowest to embark in blood, an' pulls his weepons when he does pull 'em with sorrowful resignation.
Much less has a gent, bein' thus s'licited to licker, any license to take it hostile an' allow he's insulted, an' lay for his entertainers with weepons. "'Well, I don't know, neither, says Texas Thompson, who's a heap dispootatious an' allers spraddlin' in on every chance for an argyment.
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