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"That's right, Johnny," remarked Toby, impatiently, "let's take it for granted then they come in the dark. What will they do next?" "Huh! what'd any feller do when he sees sech a nice box awaitin' for him to git up on, so's to grab the nigh turk?" demanded Johnny. "Now, if yuh watch me yuh'll git the ijee in a jiffy." A stout rope seemed to be hanging from the limb overhead.
He was not through with the Lost Springs bandit gang. The driver of the coach the only member of the posse who had remained loyal in the face of peril was a man of courage. Johnson was his name, and he offered his adobe house as a place of refuge for the night. "I'm thinkin' yuh'll be needin' it," he told the Texan. "We can stand 'em off there, for a while, anyway.
"Are yuh starin' at me?" he rasped. "Walk away, or get in one o' the two. Yuh'll kill my luck." "Pahdon me, sah. I don't think I could kill such luck as yo's." The Kid's voice was full of soothing politeness. The gambler made the mistake of thinking the stranger in awe of him. Many a man before him had taken the Texan's soft, drawling speech the wrong way. "Well, are yuh gettin' in the game?"
You're going to be hazed into a Cowboys' Mutual Improvement and Social Society, and quit smoking cigarettes and cussing your hosses and laying over Rusty's bar when yuh ride into town; and for pleasure and recreation you're going to read Tennyson's poems, and when yuh get caught out in a blizzard yuh'll be heeled with Whittier's Snowbound, pocket edition. Yuh " "Mama mine," broke in Weary.
Last night I tried to cross the creek, and my horse went on down. It was storming fierce. I got out, somehow, and crawled into the weeds. Laying out in the rain didn't help me none. It's all off." "There ought to be something " began Jack Bates helplessly. "There is. If yuh'll just put me away afterwards and say nothing, I'll be mighty grateful."
"Is that so?" replied Sandy sarcastically. "Well, yuh just stick around this arternoon, an' yuh'll realize what a plumb egreg'us idjut a feller can become by livin' in town a spell. Why, yuh poor boob, the feller you're backin' to rake in the chips ain't got even a ghost of a show."
Think of yer man first an' yer house after, an' yuh'll be a happier woman, I tell yuh." "I will that. I will," Mrs. Cregan wept, "if he's spared to me." "Never fear," Mrs. Byrne said drily. "He'll be spared to yuh." And he has been spared to her. At first he was suspicious of her subdued manner and remorseful gentleness; and for a long time he watched her, very warily, with an eye for treachery.
"Yuh'll not make yer own livin' an' eat the likes o' this," she grumbled asthmatically. "Yuh'd better be savin' yer money." Mrs. Cregan was looking at the thick china with a sort of aggrieved despondence. As her pancakes were served to her, she bent over the plate to hide a tear that trickled down her nose. It splashed on the piece of food that she raised to her mouth. She ate it tear and all.
Goliday took his hand away from the butt of his ivory-handled gun. The Texan had pulled his other revolver with the bewildering speed of a magician. Goliday was covered, "plumb center." "That's our answah, sah!" The Kid snapped. Goliday's sallow face was red with rage. "I have power here!" he rasped. "And yuh'll hear from me!
She's going to fill your hearts with love for dumb creatures, so when yuh get set afoot out on the range, or anything like that, yuh won't put in your time cussing the miles between you and camp; you'll have a pocket edition of 'Much Ado About Nothing' to read, or the speech Mark Anthony made when he was running for office. Or supposing yuh left 'em all in camp, yuh'll study nature.
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