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"The name o' the ship? Well, sir, far's I kin remember it was the Rile Willyum. Aye, sir, that was it." Mr. Darling got excited. His face went dead white, then flaming red, and he leaned forward and gripped the fingers of his right hand in Lynch's shoulder. But Dick was too mellow and happy to object or to feel surprise. "And what was the lady's name?" cried Mr. Darling. "Out with it, man!
"However, 'Doby don't have entire charge of the round-up, an' he has to figger with Billy right along. "'Doby, shouts Billy, as he notes his pard approachin', while he balances himse'f in his moccasins a heap difficult, ''Doby, your infant Willyum is a eediot. Which if I was the parent of a fool papoose like Willyum, I'd shorely drop him down a shaft a whole lot an' fill up the shaft.
"It falls out frequent this Mexican girl, Marie, trails over to Billy's, roundin' up an' collectin' of Willyum to put another shirt onto him, or some sech benefit. Billy never acts like he's impressed by this yere girl, an', while he relinquishes Willyum every time, he growls an' puts it up he's malev'lent over it. "But the seniorita is game, an' don't put no store by Billy's growls.
Missus was talkin' to 'er and soothin' 'er. "Don't carry on so," she ses, "for I tells you, it's no use." "No use," ses Miss Marryun in a choked sort o' voice, "why is it no use? I love 'im, I adore 'im. Oh, Willyum, Willyum, you'll break my 'art if you go on with this yeer cold indifference " 'Stop, I interposed sternly. At any other time I might have smiled at the girl's quaint phraseology.
Billy's loafin' over by the post- office door one evenin', talkin' to Tutt an' Boggs an' a passel of us, when who comes projectin' along, p'intin' for the New York Store, but 'Doby's wife an' Willyum.
"'Doby's disgusted with Willyum's herdin' 'round with Billy that a- way, bein' sociable an' visitin' of him, an' he lays for Willyum an' wallops him. When Billy learns of it which he does from Willyum himse'f when that infant p'ints in for a visit the day after he's as wild as a mountain lion.
"Willyum listens to Billy plenty grave an' owly, but he don't make no observations on his luck or communicate no views to Billy except that he's hungry. This yere ain't relevant none, but Billy at once pastures him out on a can of sardines an' some crackers, while he keeps on bein' liberal to himse'f about whiskey. "'I don't feel like denyin' myse'f nothin', he says.
"So long, if yer mus' be goin', Willyum," he said, pleasantly. "So long, Jinny. How's the old man's fish business?" "Drive on!" gasped the gentleman. He had the scared expression of one who had seen a spectre. The liveried menial whipped up, and the carriage was swept away.
Billy can't get out none, for his laig is a heap fragmentary as yet, 'Doby's bullet gettin' all the results which is comin' that time, but he sends 'Doby word by Peets, if he hears of any more punishments bein' meted to Willyum, he regards it as a speshul affront to him, an' holds 'Doby responsible personal as soon as he can hobble.
A worried-looking old gentleman come out the door, seen Bud and his mother kissing each other, and then says to the old nigger man: "George, yo' old fool, what do yo' mean by shouting out like that?" "Marse Willyum " begins George, explaining. "Shut up," says the old gentleman, very quiet. "Take the bay mare and go for Doctor Po'ter." Then he comes to the wagon and says: "So they got yo', Bud?
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