[The Sagebrusher by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sagebrusher CHAPTER IX 10/44
Don't you git troubled none a-tall.
I'm a-goin' to take care of you myself until everything gits all right." "I'm a thief! I'm a beggar!" was all she could say. "The same here, ma'am! You've got nothing on me," said Sim Gage. "What I said is, we're in the same boat, and we got to go the best way we can till things shapes out.
It ain't very much I got to offer you. Us sagebrushers has to take the leavings." "You've said the truth for me--the very truth.
I'm of the discard--I can't earn my living.
Leavings! And I wanted to earn my living." "You've earned it now, ma'am," said Sim Gage; and perhaps made the largest speech of all his life. "Well, anyways, we're going to come to my land right now," he added after a time.
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