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His voice was hard and heavy, and his ears were close to his big, plain Hambletonian head. "How old are you?" he said to the yellow horse. "Nigh thirteen, I guess." "Mean age; ugly age; I'm gettin' that way myself. How long hev ye been pawin' this firefanged stable-litter?" "If you mean my principles, I've held 'em sence I was three." "Mean age; ugly age; teeth give heaps o' trouble then.
Honest, he's gone putty faced and panicky. He begins pawin' around for his overcoat. "Ain't goin' so soon, are you," says I, "without breakin' a few more hearts?" "I I'm goin' to get out of here!" says he, his teeth chattery. He'd grabbed his silk lid and was makin' a dash for the front door when I stopped him. "Not that way, for the love of soup!" says I. "They'll be layin' for you there.
Whoever gave them the name of John Bull, knew what he was about, I tell you; for they are bull-necked, bull-headed folks, I vow; sulky, ugly tempered, vicious critters, a pawin and a roarin the whole time, and plaguy onsafe unless well watched. They are as headstrong as mules, and as conceited as peacocks.
"'What sort of a game is this, anyhow? says Dan Boggs, who, while we stands thar, has been pawin' over the Red Dog man's rifle. 'Looks like this vivacious party's plumb locoed. Yere's his hind-sights wedged up for a thousand yards, an' he's been a-shootin' of cartridges with a hundred an' twenty grains of powder into 'em.
I watched him a minute or so without sayin' anything, while he was pawin' around for the gate sort of absent minded, and when I thinks it's about time to wake him up I sings out: "Say, Profess, you're on the right side of the fence now; let it go at that." "Ah er I beg pardon," says he. "Well," says I, "that's a good start." "I er I beg " says he.
To take to pawin' 'round for turmoil with Peets would be encroachin' onto the ediotic.
Let 'em find the sugar tub when their ma is to meetin' an' they won't worry 'bout the bellyache till it comes. Them Injuns filled themselves to the gullet an' begun to lay back, all swelled up, an' roll an' grunt an' go to sleep. By an' by they was only two that was up an' pawin' eround in the stew pot fer 'nother bone, lookin' kind o' unsart'tn an' jaw weary.
Feel like my insides had been takin' a day off and had come back just pawin' the air to git to work." "Malvey's in town." Pete's mouth hardened, then relaxed to a grin. "Well, if he's as hungry as I am he ain't worryin' about me." "He's got your horse." "That don't worry me none." "I told Malvey to get your horse from you and set you afoot at Flores'."
"'Now you're a couple of fine three-year-olds! breaks in Jack Moore. 'Yere we be, all onbuckled an'fraternal, an' Enright on the brink of a love romance by the ardent requests of Nell, an' you two longhorns has to come prancin' out an' go pawin' for trouble. You know mighty well, Texas, that Boggs is your friend an' the last gent to go harassin' you with contoomely.
All Barry can seem to do though is to jiggle the spark and look surprised. "Why why, that's odd!" says he. "Yes, but sitting here isn't going to help," says Miss McLeod. "Get out and see what's happened. Come on." And while she's liftin' the hood and pawin' around among the wires and things, with Barry lookin' on puzzled and helpless, I sort of wanders about inspectin' Adelbaran curious.
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