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Updated: June 9, 2025
"The law took that baby out of that safe refuge, and give her back into the hands of her brutal master took her back, knowin' the life she would be compelled to lead. "Think if it wuz our Tirzah Ann, Josiah Allen!" "Dum the dum fools!" sez he, a chokin' some, and then he pulled out his bandanna handkerchief and busted right out a-cryin' onto it.
I was worse than ruined. I had half a crown in my pocket. I had ten or twelve pounds in the bank and they wouldn't let me overdraw a farthing. I tell you, I was just plumb busted. "There came along in the gutter a sandwich-man. I'd seen the cuss before during the day, walking up and down near my offices.
"Oh, we've got to let folks know how you busted that bronco!" cried Sid Todd. "Why, son, you don't understand, but it's the finest bit o' bustin' ever done on this ranch!" he added, vehemently. "Well, I am glad I won out, for one thing," answered Dave, dryly. "You won't have to give Yates that licking." And this remark made the cowboy laugh in spite of himself.
I thought till I wore my head sore, but I couldn't see no way out of the trouble. After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars.
"Yuh, that listens fine, but poor old Eddie's heart is clean busted just the same me thinking of you and your nice complexion and goldie hair and the cute way you talked at our lunch whenever Hunt shut up and gave you a chance honest, I haven't forgot yet the way you took off old man what was it? the old stiff that ran the commercial college, what was his name?" "Mr. Whiteside?"
Five dollars would make me chirk up; ten would start a slight smile; twenty would put a beam in mine eye; fifty would cause me to utter shrill cries of unadulterated joys and a hundred would inspire me to actions like unto those of a whirling dervish. I am so flat busted my arches make hollow sounds as I tread the hard pavements of a great city, seeking a job.
Old Orlick he's been a bustin' open a dwelling-ouse." "Whose?" said I. "Not, I grant you, but what his manners is given to blusterous," said Joe, apologetically; "still, a Englishman's ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted 'cept when done in war time. And wotsume'er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seedsman in his hart."
Don't I hope they busted some of the planes, or part of the little old Gnome engine, so we won't have to be bothered with 'em again?" Frank made no remark.
"It was one of them foolish turkey hens and Tobe sat down on her and a whole nest of most hatched little turkeys. Didn't nobody know she was a-setting in the old wagon but Aunt Amandy, and we was a-climbing into it for a boat on the stormy sea, we was playing like. It was mighty bad on Tobe's pants, too, for he busted all the eggs.
So he shut up for a wile but pretty soon he busted out again and this time he was louder then ever and he asked me could I sing and I said no I couldn't so then he says well you can holler can't you so I said I suppose I could so he says "Well I know how we could play a big joke on them square heads.
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