The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White
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Swing Tunstall."
"Oh, ain't they? We'll see about that. You act like I never seen a girl before. Lemme tell you I know how to act all right in company. I ain't any hilltop Reuben." "If you ain't, then pin up yore shirt where I tore the buttons off. You look like the wrath o' Gawd." "You ain't something to write home about yore own self. I can button up my vest and look respectable, but they's hayseeds and shuttlin's all over you, and besides I got a necktie, and _yore_ handkerchief is so sloshed up you can't tie it round yore neck. Yo're a fine-lookin' specimen to go a-visitin'. A fi-ine-lookin' specimen. And anyway yo're drunk. You can't go." "Hell I can't," snapped Racey, brushing industriously. "They never seen me." "But Luke Tweezy did," chuckled Swing. "What's Luke got to do with it?" Racey inquired without looking up. "If you'd slant yore eyes out through the door you'd see what Luke Tweezy's gotta do with it." Racey Dawson looked up and immediately sat down on the hay and spoke in a low tone. Swing nodded with delight. "You'll cuss worse'n that when I go over |
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