[is your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come by Alfred Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookis your at once dignified and affectionate; and by it you come CHAPTER XVII 7/17
Shore! the boys meets this law person half way.
They drinks with him an' fills him up with licker an' fictions alternate, an' altogether regyards him as a mighty yoomerous prop'sition. "'Also, observin' how tender he is, an' him takin' in their various lies like texts of holy writ, they names him "Easy Aaron." Which he don't look on "Easy Aaron" none too well as a title, an' insists on bein' called "Jedge Green" or even "Squar' Green." But Yellow City won't have it; she sticks to "Easy Aaron"; an' as callin' down the entire camp offers prospects full of fever an' oncertainty, he at last passes up the insult an' while he stays among us, pays no further heed. "'Doorin' the weeks he harbours with us, a gen'ral taste deevelops to hear this Easy Aaron's eloquence.
Thar's a delegation waits on him an' requests Easy Aaron to come forth an' make a speech.
We su'gests that he can yootilise the Burnt Boot Saloon as a auditorium, an' offers as a subject "Texas: her Glorious Past, her Glitterin' Present, an' her Transcendent Footure!" "'"Thar's a topic!" says Shoestring Griffith to Easy Aaron--Shoestring is the cha'rman of the committee,--"thar's a burnin' topic for you! An' if you-all will only come surgin' over to the Burnt Boot right now while you're warm for the event, I offers two to one you makes Cicero look like seven cents." "'But Easy Aaron waves 'em arrogantly away.
He declines to go barkin' at a knot.
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