"Now, try a two-step off the dirt that goes with this claim."
"Not until I've seen the borders that you claim," Tom rejoined.
"Why!" demanded Gage cunningly. "Going to start your claim right
at the corners of ours."
"If you'll pardon me," Reade smiled, "I don't believe I'll tell
you anything about my intentions."
"Maybe you think this claim is a pretty valuable one," Gage insinuated.
"I didn't say so."
"But you would have staked if we hadn't done it first."
"That's what you've got to guess," smiled Reade.
"Say, now you've lost this claim, tell us some thing straight,
won't youth begged Dolph.
"Tell you something straight?" repeated Tom. "Certainly. I'll tell
you something just as straight as I know how,"
"Well," he said, at last, "you said you'd tell us something straight."
"And so I will," laughed Tom. "It's just this: Go to blazes!"
"Come, now, don't get fresh, kid!" warned Dolph angrily. "If
we're going to be on neighboring claims you may find it a heap
to your advantage to use us about half-way decent and polite.
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