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Updated: June 11, 2025
Can't you give 'em a signal of some sort?" "Sure," said Jarrow. "I can run the Blue Peter to the fore truck. I'm ready to go now if you'll start whistlin' for a wind." He wet the tip of his finger on his tongue and held it up. "You take it all-fired calm," said Locke. "What's the idea? Are you going to sit down and wait for the crew to make up their minds to work?"
"I ain't had such good laughs since Tommy Walker, him that was going to chase me out of the city f'r the tall timber, up and died. But all the same, I hate to see a likely young feller sittin' up nights tryin' to make a laughin' stock of himself." "The last laughs are always the best, Mr. Neal. Did you ever try any of them?" "You're beat to a pappyer mash, and whistlin' to keep your courage."
Well, there I was with my laig busted, forty miles from even a whistlin' post in the desert, gettin' wetter and colder every blessed minute. Heaps of times in my life I've felt more comfortable than I did right then. I was hogtied to that shale ledge with my broken ankle, as you might say. And the weather and my game laig and things generally kept gettin' no better right along hour after hour.
"This is what's new. Whistlin' Dan Barry no less has busted open the jail at Elkhead an' set Lee Haines free." The sheriff could not speak. "I fixed it, Gus. I staged the whole little game." "You fixed it with Whistlin' Dan?" "Don't ask me how I worked it. The pint is that he did the job. He got into the jail while the lynchers was guardin' it, gettin' ready for a rush. They opened fire.
I can't tell you how good it makes me feel in this city of sin to come across a square man like yourself what do you say to a bottle of wine? "'Ya-a-as, says I. With life ripplin' along like this I was endorsin' the whole time-table. "Wine is a mawker. The first small glass of it hadn't gone whistlin' down afore she begun to mawk me.
You took Little Trailing Arbutus at Pawnee Rock out of pure sympathy when you knew it meant a fight at sun-up, six against fifty. And there would have been a bloody one, too, but for that merciful West India hurricane bustin' up the show. You pulled us up the Arkansas River, and straddled the Gloriettas, with every danger that could ever be just whistlin' about our ears.
'Wal, Davy, my lad, the old man said at last, with a sort of pompous mildness; 'I winna blame yo for 't, but yo interrupted me sadly wi yur whistlin. I ha been occupied this day wi business o' graat importance. His Majesty King Charles has been wi me since seven o'clock this mornin. And for th' fust time I ha been gettin reet to th' bottom o' things wi him. I ha been probin him, Davy probin him.
He was as quick as a cat an' as fierce as a tiger, an' I well raymimber him havin' laid out big Kelly that used to thravel this post, 'Whistlin'' Kelly that kep' us awake with imitations iv a mockin' bur-rd, I well raymimber him scuttlin' up th' alley with a score iv polismin laborin' afther him, thryin' f'r a shot at him as he wint around th' bar-rns or undher th' thrucks.
"How long you been standin' at that door?" said Rogers, gnawing his lips. "Jest for a breathin' space," said Dan. Rogers squinted his eyes to make up for the dimness of the lamplight. "By God!" he cried suddenly. "You're Whistlin' Dan Barry!" He dropped into his chair and passed a trembling hand across his forehead.
I like it like hell, every bit you make, but I like it on YOU. Go ahead and make all you want of it, for yourself, an' I'll put up for the goods. Why, I'm just whistlin' an' happy all day long, thinkin' of the boy an' seein' you at home here workin' away on all them nice things. Because I know how happy you are a-doin' it.
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