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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I don't go about shouting my joys and troubles in everybody's ear like this. Why do I do it to you?" Jed stopped a dismal whistle in the middle of a bar. "W-e-e-ll," he drawled, "I don't know. When I was a young-one I used to like to holler out back of Uncle Laban Ryder's barn so's to hear the echo. When you say so and so, Charlie, I generally agree with you.
He said the letter was for you. I told him he was lyin' " "What in the world did you tell him that for?" I interrupted. I had known Lute a long time, but he sometimes surprised me, even yet. "'Cause he is, nine times out of ten," replied Lute, promptly. "You never see such a young-one for dodgin' the truth. Why, one time he told his grandmother, Asa's ma, I mean, that "
"'What time is that yesterday? "'Bout first-drink time, says the bereaved party. "'How many of these yere offsprings, corral count, do you-all lay claim to anyway? asks Mace. "'Which I've got my brand onto 'leven of 'em, says the pore parent, beginnin' to sob a whole lot. 'Of course this yere young-one gettin' strayed this a-way leaves me short one.
She liked to play by herself, to invent plays all her own, and these other children "normal children," their parents called them were much too likely to laugh instead of solemnly making believe as she did. Mary-'Gusta was not a normal child; she was "that queer Lathrop young-one" had heard herself so described more than once.
I ain't altogether a numskull or a young-one, even if I do have to be shut up in the closet to make me behave." "Ho! ho! I expect you could have knocked my head off for bein' in the way just at that time." "Humph!" with a one-sided smile, "I could have knocked my own off for not listenin' afore I come downstairs. If I'd heard Laban's voice I bet you I wouldn't have come.
Well, Zoeth, what do you say? Shall we go to Heaven and hunt for her? Maybe 'twill be the only chance some of us'll get, you can't tell," with a wink at Baxter. "Hush, Shadrach! How you do talk!" protested the shocked Mr. Hamilton. "Let's go out to the barn and find the young-one ourselves," said the Captain. "Seems the simplest thing to do, don't it?" Mrs. Hobbs interrupted.
"That's all right," he said. "I expected just about that, account of what you said the day of the funeral. Me and Zoeth are about, as fur from bein' rich as the ship's cat is from bein' skipper, but we've put by a little and the store fetches us in a decent livin'. We'll take the young-one and do our best by her. Land knows what that best'll be," he added, with a dubious shake of the head.
Let the shorthorn go sleep onder a mesquite-bush; it'll do him good a whole lot. "'I'm some doobersome of this play, says Cherokee. 'Small infants is mighty myster'ous people, an' no livin' gent is ever onto their game an' able to foresee their needs. Do you-all reckon now you can take care of this yere young-one, Jack? Be you equal to it?
The two or three days which Captain Shad had set as the limit of the child's visit passed; as did the next two or three. She was busy and, apparently, enjoying herself. She helped Isaiah with the housework, and although he found the help not altogether unwelcome, he was inclined to grumble a little at what he called her "pesterin' around." "I never see such a young-one," he told his employers.
"'I'm a Wells-Fargo detective, says the squar'-built gent, 'an' this yere, p'intin' to Old Gentry, 'is Jim Yates, the biggest hold- up an' stage-robber between hell an' 'Frisco. That old tarrapin'll stop a stage like a young-one would a clock, merely to see what's into it. He's the party I'm pastin' up the notice for this mornin."
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