I've done got my med'cine. an' I'm ready to
quit.'
"But 'Doby an' Billy don't actooally make no assignment, nor go into
what you-all Eastern sharps calls liquidation. The two goes on an'
works their claims together, an' the firm name still waves as 'Doby
Dawson an' Copper Queen Billy Rudd,' only Billy won't go into
'Doby's new wickeyup where he's got Manuela,--not a foot.
"'Which I might have conquered my native reluctance,' says Billy,
'so to do, an' I even makes up my mind one night--it's after I've
got my grub, an' you-alls knows how plumb soft an' forgivin' that a-
way a gent is when his stomach's full of grub--to go up an' visit
'em a lot. But as I gets to the door I hears a noise I don't savey;
an' when I Injuns up to a crack an' surveys the scene, I'm a coyote
if thar ain't 'Doby, with his wife in his lap, singin' to her.
That's squar'; actooally singin'; which sech efforts reminds me of
ballards by cinnamon b'ars.
"'I ain't none shore,' goes on Billy, as he relates about it to me,
'but I'd stood sech egreegious plays, chargin' it general to 'Doby's
gettin' locoed an' mushy; but when this yere ingrate ends his war-
song, what do you-all reckon now he does? Turns in an' begins
'pologizin' for me downin' her dad.
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