[is your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come by Alfred Lewis]@TWC D-Link book
is your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come

CHAPTER XVII
13/17

These parties is held for divers malefactions from shootin' up a Greaser dance-hall to stealin' a cow over on the Honeymoon.
"'To his joy, Easy Aaron is reetained to defend this crim'nal herd.
It's shore pleasant to watch him! I never sees the sport who's that proudly content.

Easy Aaron visits these yere clients of his every day; an' when he has time, he walks out onto the plains so far that you-all can't hear his tones, an' rehearses the speeches he's aimin' to make when he gets them cut-throats before a jury.

We-all could see him prancin' up an' down, tossin' his hands an' all in the most locoed way.
As I states, he's too far off to be heard none; but he's in plain view from the front windows of the Burnt Boot, an' we-all finds them antics plumb divertin.' "'"These cases," says Easy Aaron to me, for he's that happy an' enthoosiastic he's got to open up on some gent; "these cases is bound to fix my fame as the modern Demosthenes.

You knows how eloquent I am about Shoestring?
That won't be a marker to the oration I'll frame up for these miscreants in the calaboose.

For why?
Shoestring's time I ain't organised; also, I'm more or less shook by the late bullets buzzin' an' hummin' like a passel of bloo-bottle flies about my office.
But now will be different.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books