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Yes, better leave him right wher' he is, long as he wants it so; becuz he holds all the trumps, don't you know, and so it stands to reason that the man that lays out to alter his plans for him is going to get left." But we couldn't stay out there in that mad storm; we should have frozen to death.
He warn't distressed any more than you be on the contrary, just as ca,'m and collected as a hearse-horse; said he judged that wher' he was going to a body would find it considerable better to attract attention by a picturesque moral character than a natty burial-case with a swell door-plate on it. "Splendid man, he was. I'd druther do for a corpse like that 'n any I've tackled in seven year.
It seemed no longer their own. "Ef I was you, Miss Christie, I'd keep close to the house for a day or two, until until things is settled," said Dick; "there's a heap o' tramps and sich cattle trapsin' round. P'raps you wouldn't feel so lonesome if you was nearer town for instance, 'bout wher' you useter live."
Scipio was full of his good fortune in falling in with a man who knew of James' whereabouts. A dozen questions sprang into his mind, but he contented himself with stating his intention. "I'll ride on with you," he said. "What, right up to James' lay-out?" "Sure. That's wher' I'm makin'." For a moment the man calling himself Conroy sat gazing out at the afterglow of the setting sun.
So then she kissed me, and patted me on the head, and dropped into a kind of a brown study; and pretty soon jumps up, and says: "Why, lawsamercy, it's most night, and Sid not come yet! What HAS become of that boy?" I see my chance; so I skips up and says: "I'll run right up to town and get him," I says. "No you won't," she says. "You'll stay right wher' you are; ONE'S enough to be lost at a time.
From the gold spread out before him he looked up into the other's face with a half-suspicious, wholly incredulous stare. "You got that from your claim to-day?" he asked. "An' wher' in hell else?" "Sure!" Beasley fingered the precious nuggets lovingly. "Gee! Ther's nigh five hundred dollars there." "Fi' hundred an' more," cried Ike anxiously.
Sir Gareth falls in love at first sight: "and euer the more syr Gareth behelde that lady, the more he loued her, and soo he burned in loue that he was past himself in his reason, and forth toward nyghte they wente unto supper, and sire Gareth myghte not ete for his loue was soo hot that he wyst not wher he was."
"Because I couldn't walk, I expect," the girl replied easily. The farm-wife shook a fat, warning finger at her. "Oh, ma'm miss that's wot he says! You jest wait till you've got more experience o' scallawags like him an' you'll sure know. Wot I sez is men's that full o' tricks wher' females is to be deceived it 'ud take 'em a summer vacation sortin' 'emselves out.
They bin right down to 'hard pan. They wer' jest starvin' their lives clear out. But they'd sank the'r pile in that hill, an' couldn't bring 'emselves to quit. Then along comes the storm, an' right wher' they're working it washes a great lump o' the hill down. Hundreds o' thousands o' tons of rock an' stuff it would have needed a train load of dynamite to shift." "Yes, yes."
When any of them falleth sicke, and lieth at the pointe of deathe, thei sticke vp a Iaueline with a piece of blacke clothe at the dore of the tente wher he lieth, that none come in as they passe by. For no manne when he seeth this, dare entre thether vncalled.
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