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""What's the ante?" I asks, for the fires of my cur'osity begins to burn. ""Four bits! An' considerin' the onusual doin's goin' for'ard, it's cheaper than corn whiskey." "'No; I don't stand dallyin' 'round, tryin' to beat this philosopher down in his price. That ain't my style. When I'm ready to commit myse'f to a enterprise, I butts my way in, makes good the tariff, an' no delays.
But Bill and Kink did not laugh. They might have been harder hearted. "First time I ever hear a man squeal over a minin' deal," Bill said. "An' I make free to say 'tis too onusual for me to savvy." "Same here," Kink Mitchell remarked. "Minin' deals is like horse- tradin'." They were honest in their wonderment.
The presence of so many folks seems like it makes him onusual hostile. Without waitin' to catch his breath even, he lays for the Red Dog editor, who, seein' him comin', bangs away with his '45 an' misses. The goat hits that author in the tail of his coat, an' over he goes; but he keeps on slammin' away with the '45 jest the same.
But I'm thinkin' you'd better have another one of the boys to fall back on. This 'ere's an onusual ticklish job; and the feller as does it'll be lucky if he comes off with a whole skin." At these words so plain an expression of relief went over Laurette's face that Bill Goodine could not contain himself. "Jim Reddin dasn't do it," he muttered to her, fiercely. The girl drew herself up.
Which, while the play is some onusual an' out of line, everybody agrees it's all right; bein' that we-alls is goin' to a war, that a-way. "'Now yere, goes on Enright, at the same time callin' for red-eye all 'round, is what youalls agrees is a mighty romantic deal. Yere's a love affair gets launched.
Then Kurt went out and accosted a man leaning against a hitching-rail. "What's going on in this town?" The man stood rather indistinctly in the uncertain light. Kurt, however, made out his eyes and they were regarding him suspiciously. "Nothin' onusual," was the reply. "Has harvesting begun in these parts?" "Some barley cut, but no wheat. Next week, I reckon." "How's the wheat?"
There's bin an onusual swarmin' o' rats in the ship of late, an' Davie Summers has had a riglar hunt after them. The lad has becum more than ornar expert with his bow an' arrow, for he niver misses now exceptin', always, when he dusn't hit an' for the most part takes them on the pint on the snowt with his blunt-heded arow, which he drives in the snowt, not the arow.
"Black Feather used to cross over to where Dick Stocton maintains a store an' licker house on the Upper Hawgthief. Of course, no gent sells these Injuns licker. It's ag'in the law; an' onless you-all is onusual eager to make a trip to Fort Smith with a marshal ridin' herd on you doorin' said visit, impartin' of nosepaint to aborigines is a good thing not to do.
"But she won't look at me in meeting, and she sent Humphreys to me with an insulting message." "Which text divides itself into two parts, my brethren and feller-travelers to etarnity. To treat the last head first, beloved, I admonish you not to believe a blackleg, unless it's under sarcumstances when he's got onusual and airresistible temptations to tell the truth.
Whut's Old Peep been doin', Judge gettin' himself in contempt of court or somethin'?" He grinned, asking the question with the air of one making a little joke. "No," vouchsafed the Judge; "he ain't done nothin'. But he's about to have somethin' of a highly onusual nature done to him. You jest tell him I'm wishful to see him right away that'll be sufficient, I reckin."
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