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Then his mind came back to things of the moment. This gold prospecting interested him more than anything else. "How far are we from Barnriff?" he asked abruptly. "Twenty odd miles west. Why?" "I was kind o' wonderin'. Seems we've been headin' clear thro' fer Barnriff since we started from way back there on the head waters. We sunk nine holes, hain't we?
All round de baynets was charge, but dey haul up jist in time not to skewer one anoder, for de horse shotted out fro' between dem all, an' away straight to de Chili lines, whar dere was a great cheerin', for dey t'ought it was a deserter. When Conrad came up, he trotted quietly troo de ranks, till he got near to whar de Chili commander stood wid his hofficers, wonderin' who he was.
"Thet was a woman's scream," replied Wilson, and he appeared to be shaking like a leaf in the wind. "Then I figgered right the kid's alive wonderin' around an' she let out thet orful scream," said Anson. "Wonderin' 'round, yes but she's daid!" "My Gawd! it ain't possible!" "Wal, if she ain't wonderin' round daid she's almost daid," replied Wilson. And he began to whisper to himself.
"Sure thing!" said the Spider, returning his grasp, "but, bo, I'm kind o' wonderin' in me little mind what Bud's feelin' like! You sure swatted him good an' heavy. I never seen cleaner footwork, an' them left jabs o' yours " "The question is, how do you feel, Spider, and what are you going to do?" The pugilist scratched his rough chin. "Well, that's what gets my goat; I dunno quite, bo.
A chap thinks and does curious things when he has nobody but himself for company." "That's me, too," said Pinkey, understandingly. "When I'm off alone huntin' stock, I ride fer hours wonderin' if it's so that you kin make booze out of a raisin." "Let's walk out and look at the wheat," Wallie suggested. Pinkey complied obligingly, though farming was an industry in which he took no interest.
She doesn't understand Why are you smiling? Is it so funny?" Captain Dan rubbed the smile from his lips. In spite of his perturbation he had been amused for the moment. "Why," he observed, "I don't know as 'tis, but but well, I couldn't help wonderin' how old you'd got to be in the last couple of months, Gertie.
And then there wuz a hull string of poetry dedicated to the heart-broken mother bewailin' the mystery on't, and wonderin' why Providence should do such strange, onlookedfor things, etc., and etcetery, and so 4th. And I spoke right up and sez, "That is a slander onto Providence and ort to be took as such by every lover of justice."
They know at the most it is only talk, wimmen hain't got it in their power to do anything. And I s'pose they reason on it in this way a little wind storm is soon over, it relieves old Natur and don't hurt anything. Yes, my pardner's face wuz as calm as the figger on the outside of the almanac a-holdin' the bottle, and his axent wuz mildly wonderin' and gently sarcestickle.
Elijah shook his head then, an' trailed off to Polly Allen; he said there must be thirty-five years between Polly an' the deacon, an' could n't suthin' be hinted at about them. That set me to wonderin', an' it's really very strange when you come to think of it, Mrs. Lathrop, how contented Polly is. I don't believe they've ever had a word.
Mebby I hadn't ort to tell it at all. Mebby it hain't quite orthodox in me to feel so. But it is truthful, anyway. And sometimes I get to kinder wobblin' round inside of my mind, and a wonderin' which is the best, to be orthodox, or truthful, and I sort o' settle down to thinkin' I will tell the truth anyway. Josiah, I think, likes Tirzah Ann the best. But I studied deep, and mused.
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