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Thar's a felon whose name is Boone, but who calls himse'f the 'Stingin' Lizard, an' who's been pesterin' 'round Wolfville, mebby, it's a month. This yere Stingin' Lizard is thar when Cherokee comes into camp; an' it looks like the Stingin' Lizard takes a notion ag'in Cherokee from the jump. "Not that this yere Lizard is likely to control public feelin' in the matter; none whatever.
Nobody finds fault with Cherokee, an' as he ups an' plants the Stingin' Lizard's remainder the next day, makin' the deal with a stained box, crape, an' the full regalia, it all leaves the camp with a mighty decent impression. By first-drink time in the evenin' of the second day, we ain't thinkin' no more about it. "Now you-all begins to marvel where do we get to the hangin' of Cherokee Hall?
What he does for this yere young Wilkins female ain't a marker. Thar's the Red Dog man he lets out. Thar's the Stingin' Lizard's nephy; he stakes said yooth from infancy. 'Benev'lent! says you. This party Cherokee is that benev'lent he'd give away a poker hand.
The rain pricked the water's surface into innumerable puckers. "Little boys dancing up," said aunt Corinne, in time-honored phrase. "No; it's bees stingin' the water," said her nephew, "with long stingers that reach clear out of the clouds." These sky-bees stung the dusty road until it lay first in dark dimples and last in swollen mud rows and shallow pools.
He keeps her handy." "For stingin' lizards, eh?" "For 'most anything. Stingin' lizards, Injuns, or hoss-thieves, or anything that we kin shoot. We ain't takin' no chances on this here trip." Big Jim gestured toward the table and pulled up his chair. Little Jim was too heartily interested in the meal to notice that his father gazed curiously at him from time to time.
"Good plan to rest a little, Ned," he said. "We've come right into a hornets' nest an' the hornets are stingin' us hard. Listen to that, will you!" A cannon ball smashed through the wall, passed through the room in which they were sitting, and dropped spent in another room beyond. Obed joined them on the sofa. "A cannon ball never strikes in the same place twice," misquoted Obed.
Thar war thistles, and cussed stingin' nettles, and briars as thick as my wrist, with claws upon them as sharp as fish-hooks. I pushed on, howsomever, feelin' quite sartin that sich a well-used track must lead to the bar's den, an' I war safe enough to find it.
We're workin' in towards it now. "You sees, followin' the Stingin' Lizard's jump into the misty beyond which it's that sudden I offers two to one them angels notes a look of s'prise on the Stingin' Lizard's face as to how he comes to make the trip-Cherokee goes on dealin' faro same as usual. As I says before, he ain't no talker, nohow; now he says less than ever.
How would you like to visit Aunt Jane, down in Arizona?" "Where them horn toads and stingin' lizards are?" "Yes and Gila monsters and all kinds of critters." "Gee! Has Aunt Jane got any of 'em on her ranch?" Big Jim forced a smile. "I reckon so." Little Jim's face was eager. "Then I say, let's go. Mebby I can get to shoot one. Huntin' is more fun than workin' all the time.
"An she expects me to tell her?" cried Banker, in a falsetto whine. "Yuh reckon if I knowed where it was I wouldn't have staked it long ago? I don't know nothin' about it." "Well, you know the Esmeraldas, old Stingin' Lizard," growled Sucatash. "You can tell her what to do about gettin' there." "I can't tell her nothin' no more than you can," said Banker.
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