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To Joe himself she said, very kindly, "My good old friend, you need not have taken so much trouble to see me; I could have come down to you." "Laws, Miss Rachel, I knew you was busy, and nuffin's ever a trouble to do for you; I go to the tops of houses often just come from one where poor Phil's a-groanin' with pain. That chile'll die if somebody don't do suthin' fur him soon."
Sez I, "The idee of the World's Fair, with all it has got on its mind, a noticin' or carin' whether you had on shoes or went barefoot! But if you are afraid of talk," sez I, "I guess that it would make full as much talk to see you a-goin' round a-groanin' and a-cryin' out loud. And that is what them shoes would bring you to," sez I.
But I'll head you off agin in spite of your cussed, mean, stingy, selfish, old, shrivelled-up soul, that would like to take its ease even though the hull world was a-groanin' outside the door. A-a-h!"
"An' then goes for to make us go for to nigh drownd the pore, unfort'nate genelman in my own 'oss-trough, an' 'im now a-sneezin' an' a-groanin' an' a-swearin' in bed fit to break your 'eart. 'Ere be the desp'rit rogue as done the deed!" "Oh, is it!" repeated Black Whiskers, scowling.
"The blessed Father would never forgive us if we should desart one of his creatures when he needed hilp." Tim now advanced straight to the bushes, paused, and then parted them and looked in. He was heard to mutter something to himself; then he came back. "It's an Injin, a-layin' on the ground, a-groanin' and a-rollin' over.
"P'r'aps, Gaffer, p'r'aps!" returned Job, "but I sez again, I believe what Peter sez, an' I don't believe there never was no ghost at all." "Ay, lad, but I tell 'ee theer was I seed un!" cried the old man eagerly, "seed un wi' these two eyes, many's the time. You, Joel Amos you've 'eerd un a-moanin' an' a-groanin' you believe as I seed un, don't 'ee now come?"
"Gone?" came from Snuggers. "Yes, gone. Snuggers did you leave the door unlocked?" "No, sir, I couldn't get the key in the lock. Here it is." And the general utility man produced it. "Ah! here is a key on the inside. What can this mean?" "I don't know, sir. I left him a-groanin' only a few minutes ago." "It is very strange." Jasper Grinder gazed around the empty storeroom.
De time's come for men now, an' dis is men's wuk, an' we's gwine ter du it, too! D'yer see dat man dar, a-bleedin' an' a-groanin'? Blood's been shed! We's been fired into kase we wuz gwine ter exercise our rights like men under de flag ob our kentry, peaceable, an' quiet, an' disturbin' nobody! 'Fore God, Miss Mollie, ef we's men an' fit ter hev enny rights, we won't stan' dat!
"We got a'most there," he gasped; "we could hear 'em a-groanin'; but the after-damp got so bad we " He reeled and fell, speechless and exhausted. The crowd had surged up, trying to hear what the man was saying. People were getting dangerously near to the mouth of the shaft.
A good-lookin' man of about Arvilly's age laid there all covered with blood and fainted entirely away, and on his breast wuz throwed the form of a little lame girl all covered with blood, and a-cryin' and a-groanin' as if her heart would break. She thought her Pa wuz dead.
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