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Updated: June 12, 2025
They heard the kitchen door open and close and Striker's voice loudly proclaiming the staunchness of his outbuildings, a speech cut short by Eliza's exasperation. "How many times do I have to tell you, Phin Striker, not to come in this here kitchen without wipin' your feet? Might as well be the barn, fer as you're concerned. Go out an' scrape that mud offen your boots."
She didn't reply but sot lookin' mournful but clever, and agin she sez, "This is a cold world." "Not here it hain't, not in St. Louis," sez I, wipin' my heated forward, but she went on: "My heart has gone out to him without any will of my own. I feel that he has the makin' of a noble man in him." And I sez, "I guess he's made about all he can be on this spear."
"'Farewell to you, I says, and the tears come in her eyes, and she says to me wipin' 'em on a han'kerchief I give her, nothing any Welshman ever done for her, and you can bank on that Duke she says to me: 'I'll always think of you as a gentleman, Mr. Wilson. I wasn't onto what that Welshman told her then; I didn't know the straight of it till she wrote and told me after she got to Wyoming."
It was the insensate, raging fury of the fight-madness that had gripped him, and he suddenly yielded to it and raised his head, laughing harshly, with panting, labored breath. Barkwell rode up to him, speaking hoarsely: "We come pretty near wipin' 'em out, 'Firebrand!" He looked up at his foreman, and the latter's face blanched. "God!" he said.
"What cheer, covies?" cried he before he was well in the room. "She's come back!" "Who your mother?" said Jack. "Yaas," said Billy; "worn't she jolly neither? She give me a wipin' last night same as I never got." And when we came to look at our queer visitor he bore about his face and person undoubted marks of the truth of this story. "What a shame it is!" I said to Jack.
His hide war black, too, or nigh to it; but ef that skunk wan't white un'erneath a coatin' o' charcoal an' vermilion then Walt Wilder don't know a Kristyun from a heethun. I ain't no use spek'latin' on't now. White, black, yella-belly, or red, they've put us afoot on the parairia, an' kim darned nigh wipin' us out althegither.
They have planned for a general wipin' out of the whites, and you can be plumb certain that what has happened here is knowed all acrost this country to-day, clean to the big bend of the Missouri, and on the Yellowstone, and west to the Rockies." "How could that be?" asked Orme, suddenly, with interest.
How'd he get out of wipin' dishes?" Mr. Bangs strolled into the yard. "Hello!" he hailed. "I was on my way to Simmons's on an errand and I thought I'd stop in a minute. Got somethin' to tell you, Whit." "All right. Overboard with it! It won't keep long this hot weather." Bailey smiled knowingly. "Didn't I hear the up train whistle as I was comin' along?" he asked. "Seems to me I did.
Why, I tell you there's nothin' a trúshul can't do, whether it's curin' a man as is bit by a sap, or wipin' the very rainbow out o' the sky by jist layin' two sticks crossways, or even curin' the cramp in your legs by jist settin' your shoes crossways; there's nothin' for good or bad a trúshul can't do if it likes.
"'Dick, you have allers been a good friend to me, an' have stuck by me like a brother, through thick an' thin, an', I s'pose, you think it is mighty unkind in me to keep any thing from you; an' so it is. An' now I'll tell you all. "He paused a moment, an', wipin' the perspiration from his forehead with his coat-sleeve, continued, a'most in a whisper,
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