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There were men I knew in Hamilton who'd have found themselves richt at hame among the agitators in Butte. I'm minded to be tellin' ye a tale of one such lad. The lad I've in mind I'll call Andy McTavish, which'll no be his richt name, ye'll ken. He could ha' been the best miner in the pit. He could ha' been the best liked lad in a' those parts. But he was not.
It ain't so awful far f'm what these boys say. We'll have to foot it, anyway, for quite some distance, if we want to s'prise 'em." When the place where the wood-road turned off was reached the sheriff decided to leave the horses. "One o' you boys stay here now with the deputy an' help guard these horses," instructed the sheriff. "Which'll it be?"
You see, if they scatter through the wood and attack us on all sides, they may give us a deal o' trouble, and git away after all; whereas, if we run away, they'll bolt after us in a body, and then we can take them in hand all at once, which'll be more comfortable-like, an' easier to manage."
Pepper, briskly; "come fly at your sewing; that's your learning now." "So 'tis," said Polly, with a little laugh. "Now let's see which'll get their seam done first, mamsie?"
Still she really wanted to do something to make her happy, and so she set about it in the only ways she knew. "See here, Joy," she called, merrily, after breakfast, "let's come out and have a good time. I have lots and lots to show you out in the barn and round. Then there is all Yorkbury besides, and the mountains. Which'll you do first, see the chickens or walk out on the ridge-pole?"
Still waiting for reinforcements. "H-w-e." Haw! haw! haw!" with a terrible jerking of the reins. A voice over the way, distinctly audible, utters the cabalistic words, "Two forty." Another voice, as audible, asks, "Which'll you bet on?" It was not soothing. It did seem as if the imp of the perverse had taken possession of that terrible nag to go and make such a display at such a moment.
Coming to the side of his chair, and throwing an arm carelessly across Franklin's shoulder, the waiter asked in a confidential tone of voice, "Well, Cap, which'll you have, hump or tongue?" Whereby Franklin discovered that he was now upon the buffalo range, and also at the verge of a new etiquette.
"That's one thing. And I want to find out how that last cheque of theirs got into our back-parlour! Was it sent by post or was it delivered by hand? And if by hand who delivered it?" "You're a cute 'un, you are!" observed Ayscough. "You'd better join us." "Thank you, Mr. Ayscough, but events has happened which'll keep me busy at something else," said Melky, cheerfully.
Now, lad, I can take you alone, horseback, which'll be far swifter, safer, surer " A new alarm, a new exaltation "Oh, no, my mist'ess; no, no! you knows you on'y a-temptin' o' dy servant!" "You wouldn't leave daddy and mammy?"
When I had at length settled to this conclusion I confided it as delicately as possible to my client, who was sitting at the time with his feet cocked up on the office table, reading a pink newspaper. "Which'll be the easier to prove?" he asked, without looking up. "It would be more charitable to prove he had been out of his mind," I replied, "and perhaps easier."
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