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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Before the night afore last, the mate took the port watch, and I the starboard; but now that the mate's gone, how would it be if I was to take the port and Chips the starboard watch? Would that suit ye, sir?" "Yes," I said, "that would be an excellent arrangement, I think. By the way, how many do you muster in a watch?" "Four in each, includin' me and Chips," answered the boatswain.
"A kind of four-flushin' hombre a coyote in sheep's clothin', I should judge," drawled Kid Wolf. "Thet just about describes him," the woman agreed. "But yo' sho'ly aren't alone on yo' ranch. Wheah's yo' men?" asked The Kid. "They quit last week." "Quit?" The Kid's eyebrows went up a trifle. "All of them five in all, includin' the foreman.
"'He looks like a very ignorant, common person, says she, loud and clear, so that everybody, includin' the 'ignorant person' himself, could hear her. 'However, James'll superintend. James, she orders the shofer, 'you see that it is well done, won't you? Make him be very careful. "James looked Butler over from head to foot. 'Humph! he sniffs, contemptuous, with a kind of half grin on his face.
"Sam Bossom might take down the Success to Commerce for it, and he's as well out o' the way wi' the rest o' you." Tilda clapped her hands. "Mind you," he went on, "I'm not includin' any orphan. I got no consarn with one. I haven't so much as seen him." He paused, with his eyes fixed severely on Tilda's. She nodded. "O' course not."
"Must 'a' come to quite a figger, includin' the shirt and necktie." "Forty dollars for the suit," Ovid said, proudly, "and it busted a five-dollar bill all to pieces to git the shirt and tie." Scattergood waggled his head admiringly. "Must be a satisfaction," he said, "to be able to afford sich clothes."
Used to sell very good candy an' a variety of temperance drinks, includin' a special brew of lemon squash, of which delectable beverage I've consumed some quarts." "That's the man," resumed Isa. "But 'tain't just c'rrect ter call Sanson prosperous. Thar's a heap of competition in the temp'rance drink line, an' the retailin' of candy don't represent a gold mine.
You got a fine handsome town here, it's a corkin' good place to see and get out of but it ain't any breedin' place there ain't the room to grow. Now we produce everything in the West, includin' men. Here you don't do anything but consume includin' men. If the West stopped producin' men fur you, you'd be as bad off as if it stopped producin' food.
Pretty soon others begun buttin' in, and by eight-thirty there was a roomful, includin' Vee's Aunty, who watches me as severe as if I was a New Haven director. Joey Billings floats in too. And I got to admit that in an evenin' gown she ain't such a worse looker.
What them peons need is a man with an imagination to help 'em out, and if they've got the money, Adelbert P. Gibney can supply the brains. So I comes north to Los Angeles, shows the insurrecto junta my medal and my honourable discharges from every ship I'd ever been in, includin' the gunboat Bogota, and I talked big and swelled around and told 'em to run in some arms and get busy.
Susan darlin', it's Jo Bumpus as would give all he has in the world, includin' his Sunday clo'se, to be anchored alongside o' ye at that same farm! `Sanfransko. I misdoubt the spellin' o' that word, Susan dear; it seems to me raither short, as if ye'd docked off its tail. Howsomever `For John bumpuss' O Susan, Susan! if ye'd only remember the big B, and there ain't two esses.
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