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Updated: June 12, 2025
Old Coyote lives alone an' has built himse'f a dugout a sort o' log hut that's half in an' half outen the ground. His mission on earth is to slay coyotes 'Wolfin'' he calls it for their pelts; which Coyote gets a dollar each for the furs, an' the New York store which buys 'em tells Coyote to go as far as he likes. They stands eager to purchase all he can peel offen them anamiles.
When an apple gits ripe enough hit draps offen ther limb." Over at the small county seat to the east the squat brick "jail-house" sat in the shadow of the larger building. There was a public square at the front where noble shade trees stood naked now, and the hitching racks were empty.
She gave a long sigh, pitifully unyouthful in its depth of misery. "I was 'most glad when ma got through with it all, and could rest and look so sort of peaceful in her coffin. But I dunno. She kept more offen me than I knew of, I guess, and it's growin' worse all the time." Nate started up, letting his chair fall back with such force as to threaten total extinction to its legs.
At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
Drive the horses into the brush, George. We'll sit tight." "Got the criminals guessing," Holt contributed maliciously. "You lads want to take the hide offen Macy if he lands you in the pen through that fool shot of his. Wonder if I hadn't better yell." "I'll stop your clock right then if you do," threatened Big Bill with a scowl.
"I come over to borry a hoss fur a week or two. Our old nag fell offen the bluff an' killed hisse'f." "That was ruther accommodatin', Laz. You would a been compelled to haul him away in a day or two longer. But you want to borry a hoss for a week or two? Don't you think you mout keep him a leetle longer?" "Yes, mout on a pinch." "Got any corn to feed him on?" Laz began to scratch his head.
As she took her seat on the first night, she looked up curiously. A new sound coming regularly from the inner room made her pause. "Is that a type-writer?" she asked incredulously. Mr. Lavinski, pushing his derby from his shining brow, smiled proudly. "Dat's vat it is," he said. "My Ike, he's got a scholarship offen de high school. He's vorking his vay through de medical college now.
So I spoze more'n like as not they be. And I also learnt, through a letter received that very day, that Mr. Bolster has led Miss Plank to the altar, or she has led him it don't make much difference. Anyway, she has walked offen the Plank of widowhood, and settled down onto a Bolster for life. I wuz glad on't.
There waz Jennie McCrea a bein' dragged offen her horse, and killed by savages. A dreadful sight a woman settin' out light-hearted toward happiness and goin' to meet a fearful doom. Dreadful sight that has come down through the centuries, and happens over and over agin amongst female wimmen.
But Cephas said he wuz jest dispatchin' a messenger for us when we arrove, for, he said, "in a time of trouble, then wuz the time, if ever, that a man wanted his near relations clost to him." And he said "we had took a load offen him by appearin' jest as we did, for there would have been some delay in gettin' us there, if the messenger had been dispatched."
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