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Updated: June 13, 2025
"I wa'n't a mite deceived by that pig pen, no more'n I was by Jed Towle's hen coop, nor Ivory Dunn's well-curb, nor Pitt Packard's shed-steps. If you hed ever kep' up your buildin's yourself, Rose's beaux wouldn't hev to do their courtin' with carpenters' tools." "It's the pigpen an' the hencoop you want to keep your eye on, mother, not the motives of them as made 'em.
But, really, Francis, I think her poetry did not deserve it. She has never mentioned her verses since." "And for yourself, you can see no prospect?" "It seems impossible to get up the classes that I hoped for. I think I must take to Mrs. Dunn's and the dressmaking, for we cannot go on as we are doing." "Ah! Jane, my cup of prosperity has very many bitter drops in it."
For on the mantlepiece, just above where the weeping girl crouched, stood a photograph the photograph of a young and good-looking, gaily-smiling man. Across it, in a boyish and somewhat unformed hand, was written, "Devotedly yours, Charley Wright." It was this photograph that had caught Dunn's eyes.
Johnnie Dunn's judgment had not been reversed by the years, Christina was still a long way from being one of the Lindsay beauties. But she possessed an abundance of that loveliness that always accompanies youth and health and a merry heart. She was not quite so gay as usual this morning. She felt that she ought to be grave and dignified, as befitted a person who was so old.
"Dunn, dare you play a big game for big stakes?" "Try me," said Dunn. "If I showed you," Deede Dawson's voice sank to a whisper, "if I showed you a pretty girl for a wife a fortune to win what would you say?" "Try me," said Dunn again, and then, making his voice as low and hoarse as was Dunn's, he asked: "Is it Clive?" "Later perhaps," answered Deede Dawson. "There's some one else first.
But the crowd rejected the Colonial version, and rendered in their own good Doric: "Old Dunn's no' done, old Dunn's no' done, Old Dunn, old Dunn's no' done, Old Dunn's no' done, old Dunn's no' done, Old Dunn, old Dunn's no' done." And so they sang and swayed, following the van till they neared Queen Street, down which lay the doctor's course.
Then the Kansas Pioneer, published at Kickapoo, made an inflammatory appeal to the "Law and Order" party to rally and avenge Cook's death, and in an answer to this appeal the "Kickapoo Rangers" and Captain Dunn's company, from Leavenworth, in all about fifty men, turned out to go to Easton on this errand.
From the tops of the azoteas, from the Casa Mata and the Molino, a deadly shower of balls was rained crosswise upon the assailants. Part of the reserve was brought up; and Dunn's guns and the Mexican battery were served upon the buildings without much effect at first.
"Oh," cried Jimmie with one of his high-pitched yells, "that's where The Woman went! Mrs. Johnnie Dunn's there for the Winter. That's where her sister lives, I heard Trooper say so the other day." The family looked at each other dumbfounded. It surely could not be possible. The Woman had always been a faithful friend of Mrs.
Cameron's manner one of gay and nervous bravado. "Come, Cameron," said Dunn sadly, "what does this mean? You're not serious; you're not chucking your year?" "Just that, dear fellow, and nothing less. Might as well as be ploughed." "And what then are you going to do?" Dunn's voice was full of a great pity. "What about your people? What about your father?
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