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"Lawd, marster, hit's so long ago, I'd a'most forgit all about it, ef I hedn' been wid him ever sence he wuz born. Ez 'tis, I remembers it jes' like 'twuz yistiddy. Yo' know Marse Chan an' me we wuz boys togedder. I wuz older'n he wuz, jes' de same ez he wuz whiter'n me.
"'He wins sure as hell! I hollers. "'Oh, will he? says a voice. I looks up 'n' there's Miss Livingston sittin' on her hoss, her fists doubled up 'n' her face whiter'n chalk. "About ten len'ths from the finish Rainbow gets to the black 'n' they look each other in the eye. But them long jumps of the thoroughbred breaks the hunter's heart, 'n' Rainbow comes away, 'n' wins by a len'th. . . .
"He was probably meanin' to put in there, and might 'a' come ashore may be, he was wild enough but he seen our men and that kind o' hindered him; he didn't want to turn round and put right back neither, lookin' as though he was scared, so he kep' on, and Sim said they watched 'em clean out o' sight; 'but, says he, 'I never seen a man turn whiter'n George Olver did for a minute, and then he onclinched his fist and went to work ag'in, harder than ever, for you can allays depend on Jim, somehow George Olver but he's a dreadful close-mouthed fellow!"
Judson, he's married two months ago." The warm sunny glorious world turned drab and cold to me with the words. "What's the matter, Baronet? you're whiter'n a dead man!" "Just a little faint. Got that way in the army," I answered, which was a lie. "Better now? As I was sayin', Judson and Lettie has been married two months now.
"Lawd, marster, hit's so long ago, I'd a'most forgit all about it, ef I hedn' been wid him ever sence he wuz born. Ez 'tis, I remembers it jes' like 'twuz yistiddy. Yo' know Marse Chan an' me we wuz boys togerr. I wuz older'n he wuz, jes' de same ez he wuz whiter'n me.
An' when I seen Bland twist her hurt her I had a queer hot feelin' deep down in me, an' fer the only time in my life I wished I was a gun-fighter. "Wal, Jen amazed me. She was whiter'n a sheet, an' her eyes were big and stary, but she had nerve. Fust time I ever seen her show any. "'Jennie, he said, 'my wife said Duane came here to see you.
But it meant enough to me that I came pretty near riding back to have a pow-wow with Annie, even if we were late. I wish I had. I'd have less on my conscience right now." "Fur's I kin see," Applehead dissented impatiently, "you ain't got no call to have nothin' on your conscience where that thar squaw is concerned. You treated her a hull lot whiter'n what she deserved now I'm tellin' ye!
Penrod took on the outward signs of deep thought. "Well, there's plenty to DO, all right. I got to think." Sam made several suggestions, which Penrod maintaining his air of preoccupation dismissed with mere gestures. "Oh, I know!" Sam cried finally. "We ought to wash him so's he'll look whiter'n what he does now. We can turn the hose on him across the manger." "No; not yet," Penrod said.
Sam made several suggestions, which Penrod maintaining his air of preoccupation dismissed with mere gestures. "Oh, I know!" Sam cried finally. "We ought to wash him so's he'll look whiter'n what he does now. We can turn the hose on him acrost the manger." "No; not yet," said Penrod. "It's too soon after his meal. You ought to know that yourself.
But the Wolfhound remained standing, some twenty paces from Jess's shelter, and, when the man was almost out of sight, stepped forward and lay down within a yard or two of the kangaroo-hound. "Queer card, that Wolf!" muttered Bill, as he rode away. "But he's pretty white, too; whiter'n some men, I reckon, for all he's so mighty suspicious."
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