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"I was thinkin' o' that white crittur you got yarnin' about when you come around our shanty. Jest whar's that Moosefoot Reserve, an' an' the bit o' forest whar her lodge is located? Maybe I'd fancy to know. I 'lows I was kind o' struck on that yarn." The trader saw the eager face, and the excitement in the eyes which looked into his, and, in a moment, his merry mood died out.
Wal, she up an' tells me how she'd like gittin' in to Whitewater next winter, an' talked o' dances an' sech. Say, she wus jest whoopin' wi' the pleasure o' the tho't of it. Guess likely she'd be mighty pleased to git a-ways. Wal, I don't jest know how it come, but I got yarnin' of a barbecue as was held down Arizona way. I was tellin' as how I wus ther', an' got winged nasty. It wa'n't much.
I'm wonderful fond o' yarnin' o' good-lookin' maids; but I can't say much o' Liz; for Liz was so far t' l'eward o' beauty that many a time, lyin' sick there in the fo'c's'le o' the Love the Wind, I wished the poor girl would turn inside out, for, thinks I, the pattern might be a sight better on the other side.
"Maybe you're slow in some things, Seth," she ventured, after a moment's thought. "See here, Ma, I've always reckoned we'd get yarnin' like this some day. It 'ud please you an' Rube for me to marry Rosebud. Wal, you an' me's mostly given to talkin' plain. An' I tell you right here that Rosebud ain't for the likes o' me. Don't you think I'm makin' out myself a poor sort o' cuss. 'Tain't that.
It's jest that other what set me yarnin'. Say, guess you're mostly a pretty decent feller, Tresler, though I 'lows you has failin's. You're kind o' young. Now I guess you ain't never pumped lead into the other feller, which the same he's doin' satisfact'ry by you? You kind o' like most fellers?" Tresler nodded. "Jest so. But I've noticed you don't fancy folks as gits gay wi' you.
And, probably, end his days dancing at the end of a lariat, suspended from the bough of some stout old tree. As he moved to go, Arizona rose abruptly from his seat, and stayed him with a gesture. "Guess I got side-tracked yarnin'. I wanted to tell you a few things that's bin doin' sence you've bin away." Tresler stood.
Yes, sir, guess her tongue's like velvet mostly, but when she turned on that blind hulk of a father of hers wal, ther', ef I was a cat an' had nine lives to give fer her they jest wouldn't be enough by a hund'ed." "Say, Arizona," said one of the men quietly, "what was you yarnin' 'bout? Guess you allus was sweet on Miss Dianny." Arizona turned on the speaker fiercely.
"And I'm glad you knew Uncle Jim. As a youngster, he was my idol. He could spin yarns that were worth listening to." "I bet you! He'd seen things wuth yarnin' about. So you ain't a sailor, hey? Livin' in New York?" The young man nodded. "Yes," he said. Then, with a dry smile, "If you call occupying a hall bedroom and eating at a third-rate boarding-house table living. However, it's my own fault.
Wingate, having a few final calls to make, left the station soon afterwards and did not return until evening. And that evening he heard news which surprised him. As he and Captain Sol were exchanging a last handshake on the platform, Barzilla said: "Well, Sol, I've enjoyed loafin' around here and yarnin' with you, same as I always do. I'll be over again in a month or so and we'll have some more."
An' now, jest when I'm gittin' to mend decent, he comes an' boosts me right out to the bunkhouse 'cause he ketches me yarnin' wi' that bit of a gal o' his. But, say, she just let out on him that neat as you fellers never heerd.
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