And," he added, with malicious satisfaction, while he rolled Andy over and tied a perfectly unslippable knot behind, "it gives me great pleasure to hand the dose out to you, in p'ticular.

If I was a mean man, I'd hand yuh the boot a few times fer luck; but I'll save that up till next time." "You can bet your sweet life there'll be a next time," Andy promised earnestly, with embellishments better suited to the occasion than to a children's party.
"Well, when it arrives I'm sure Johnny-on-the-spot.

Them Wyoming punchers beat me up after they'd got me tied.

I'm tellin' yuh so you'll see I ain't mean unless I'm drove to it.

Turn him feet down hill, Oscar, so he won't git a rush uh brains to the head and die on our hands.