The Lord knows I wa'n't laughin' at her hair.

I don't see why she thought so, do you ?" Bonner laughed long and heartily over the experiment; but Rosalie vigorously expressed her disapproval of the marshal's methods.
"It's the only real mean thing I ever heard of you doing, daddy Crow!" she cried.

"It was cruel!" "Course you'd take her part, bein' a woman," said he serenely.

"Mrs.
Crow did, too, when I told her about it twenty years ago.

Women ain't got much sense of humour, have they, Wick ?" He was calling him Wick nowadays; and the young man enjoyed the familiarity.
The days came when Bonner could walk about with his cane, and he was not slow to avail himself of the privilege this afforded.