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He couldn't help, in spite av himself, lookin' now an' thin at the picthur, an' he immediately observed that the eyes av it was follyin' him about, an' starin' at him, an' winkin' at him, wherever he wint.
As sharp as winkin' Cherokee has a nine-inch bowie in his hand an' with one slash cuts the hoss-ha'r clost up by Silver Phil's belt. "'That's a yoonique invention!" observes Cherokee, an' he's sarcastic while he menaces with the knife at Silver Phil; 'that contraption is shorely plenty sagacious! But it don't go here.
"No more trouble to knock over a grizzly than it was to smash three whiskey bottles without winkin'. I like yer coolness, young man. Now, some fellers 'ud have blatted it all over camp in no time. An' that happened yesterday, so ye say?" "Yes; toward evening." "An' the gal was thar all alone?" "It seems so. I wanted to go home with her, but she would not let me." "She wouldn't! An' why not?"
Them fellers will swaller a falsehood as fast as a turkey does a grasshopper; take it right down whole, without winkin'.
"But, gosh darn it, I don't see how you can go around with a guy an' drink with him, an' then rob him," cried Al from the bed. "No different from cleaning a guy up at craps." "Well?" "An' suppose that feller knew that I was only a bloody private. Don't you think he'd have turned me over to the M. P.'s like winkin'?" "No, I don't think so," said Al.
An' afther the first sip, the child lifts herself up on one arm, and sez, with a swate smile and a toss of the glass: "'I looks towards you, Scotty, sez she. "'I observes you and bows, miss, sez he, makin' as if he was dhrinkin' wid her. "'Here's another nail in yer coffin, old man, sez she winkin'.
They may talk of independence, says father, 'but Sam, I'll tell you what independence is, and he gave his hands a slap agin his trousers pocket, and made the gold eagles he won at the race all jingle agin 'THAT! says he, giving them another wipe with his fist, and winkin', as much as to say, do you hear that, my boy!
I waited till he'd begun to pull his wares out and make a fine speech about 'em, and then I jest walked up to him, cool and composed, and give him his choice between payin' me good money for his bogus gold or hearin' me make a speech; and you may jest bet your best hat he paid up quicker'n winkin'. Perhaps I'd ought to have warned folks ag'in' him as it was, but I had a notion he'd save his tricks till he got to another neighborhood; and it turned out I was right.
"'Aweel, Dandie's afflicted wi' the same disease. Dandie, strive against curiosity, for it brings a little dog into traps an' suchlike. Whaur was the Kite when yon painted liner took off the Grotkau's people? "'Just there or thereabouts, I said. "'An' which o' you twa thought to cover your lights? said he, winkin'. "'Dandle, I said to the dog, 'we must both strive against curiosity.
He couldn't help, in spite av himself, lookin' now an' thin at the picthur, an' he immediately obsarved that the eyes av it was follyin' him about, an' starin' at him, an' winkin' at him, wheriver he wint. "Oh," says he, when he seen that, "it's a poor chance I have," says he; "an' bad luck was with me the day I kem into this unforthunate place," says he.
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