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"In a hurry to be a-goin'? I'll allow you'll see some slim red devils, with feathers in their hair, slipping among the trees along the bank, and mebbe you'll hear the ping which's made when whistlin' lead hits. Perhaps you'll want to be back here by termorrer sundown." "Not I," said Joe, with his short, cool laugh.
He looked jist like a man that finds whistlin a plaguy sight easier than thinkin. Presently, I heard him ax the groom who that are Yankee lookin feller was. That, said the groom, why, I guess its Mr. Slick. Sho!! said he, how you talk.
"It's the Lord's day, and if I hear you whistlin' in it I'll whale the hell out o' ye!" That was his philosophy, and he lived it. Saturday nights when the town clock struck the hour of midnight, he removed his leather apron, pushed his bench back in the corner, and the work of the week was over and if any one was waiting for his shoes, so much the worse for him.
"Sir, you do lick me, you fair do," said Dollops, laughing unsteadily, and drawing his sleeve across his eyes. "Arfter wot you've been and went through, a-sittin' there and whistlin' as merry as can be like as if life was all beer and skittles, and you hadn't a care in the world." "I haven't for the minute, my lad," said Cleek with a laugh of utter happiness. "Beer and skittles?
Then Silent cried out: "Then what was that whistlin' I've heard down the road behind us?" Bill Kilduff broke into rolling bass laughter, and Hal Purvis chimed in with a squeaking tenor. "We told you all along, Jim," said Purvis, as soon as he could control his voice, "that there wasn't any whistlin' behind us.
"Don't answer me back; you're full of new tricks, and you've got to stop 'em, right where you are, or there'll be trouble. You were whistlin' just now up in the barn chamber; that's one of the things I won't have round my premises, a whistlin' girl." "'T was a Sabbath-School hymn that I was whistling!" This with a creditable imitation of defiance. "That don't make it any better.
Dellanow, so I think I'll go 'ome and get my master 'is supper'; and she was just goin' down the stairs when all of a sudden he starts up in bed and sez, 'Do you 'ear that whistle blowin'? 'No, I sez, 'you've been dreamin'. There isn't nobody whistlin' at this time o' night. 'Yes, he sez, 'there is, and it blowed three times.
"Well, sir, when a man blows his words down through a slit in a tarpaulin " "You think it came down through the hole you cut?" "Yes, sir, sure on it; but as I was a-saying, when a man blows his words down like that he might just as well be whistlin' a hornpipe for all you can tell who it is. But if I was put upon my oath afore a judge I should swear as it were Plum Duff." "What do you mean?"
Me an' Haines was in the upstairs room an' about suppertime up came a feller an' told us that Tex Calder had jest come into the dinin'-room. That was all. Did Whistlin' Dan get Lee from behind?" "He got him from the front. He beat Lee to the draw so bad that Haines hardly got his gun out of its leather!" "The feller that told you that lied," said Silent.
"That's your chance to make one of your rarin', tarin' speeches. Then you hop into the telegraph office an' send a wire to the Governor askin' that a price be put on the head of the bloodthirsty desperado, Dan Barry, commonly known as Whistlin' Dan." "It's like something out of a book," said the sheriff slowly. "It's like some damned horror story."
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