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In another minute the captain came from the cabin, carrying a three-legged stool, which he placed upon the deck. "Thar, Miss," he said, "I think that'll be more comfortable than standin'. Ye kin lean aginst the cabin, providin' ye don't go to sleep an' push it over." The girl smiled as she resigned the wheel and sat down upon the stool.
Says I, "Elburtus, what made you drink it, when it went aginst your stomach?" says I. "Why," says he in a faint voice, and pale round his lips as any thing, "I didn't want to hurt his feelin's by refusin'." Says I, out to one side, "Did you ever, Josiah Allen, see such goodness in your life?" "I never see such dumb foolishness," says he.
I commenced for to walk fast, and Big Mose commenced for to walk fast, and afore we knowed it, we bofe was a canterin', and when we come aginst de door, we'd like to 've busted it in, we was tearing along so fast. We tumbled in ober each oder, and fastened dat door in a hurry you'd better beliebe." "Wal, we went to our room, and blowed out de candle and said our prayers and went to bed.
Why didn't yer husband help Farrington out of the door with the toe of his boot?" "But think of that unpaid bill, Mrs. Stickles." "Unpaid bill, be fiddlesticks! Would ye turn aginst yer best earthly friend fer the sake of a bill?" "What else could we do?" "Do? Let yer cow or anything else go! What do sich things amount to when yer honour's at stake. Dear me, dear me! has it come to this?"
But as he sot off, a-movin' backward in a polite way but swift, entirely onbeknown to him he come up aginst a big tree, and with a hopeless look of resignation he leaned up aginst it, while I, a-feelin' that Providence had interfered to give me another chance at him, advanced onwards, and sez to him in a real eloquent way, "That bill will do more than any amount of beggin', or jawin', or preachin', towards keepin' the boys to hum on the old deserted farms that are so thick in the country; and," sez I, "now that bill has fell out of his hands, I want you to take it up and pass it on to success."
But some of her property she had lost through poor investments and don't it beat all how wimmen do git cheated, and every single man she deals with a-tellin' her to confide in him freely, for he hain't but one idee, and that is to look out for her interests, to the utter neglect of his own, and a-warnin' her aginst every other man on earth but himself. But, to resoom.
Men, wimmen and children rushin' every which way police firemen fire bells clangin' men shoutin' wimmen shriekin' and every minute the flames increased! The firemen did what they could, they worked like giants, but the element they wuz workin' aginst wuz more powerful than man.
You've broken the half of them by severity; you've turned the tenants aginst yourself and his honor here; and I tell you now, though you're to the fore, that, in the coorse of a short time, there'll be bad work upon the estate, except his honor, here, looks into his own affairs, and hears the complaints of the people. Look at these resates, your honor; they'll show you, sir, "
"Why, out to that nigger settlement jest the other side of Jonesville." "How do you know they'll vote for you?" says I. "I'd like to see 'em vote aginst me!" says he, in a skairful way. "Would you use intimidation, Josiah Allen?"
And the crowd dispersed, lookin' forward to the excitement of the hangin'. And the saloon-keeper went home and mebby counted over the few cents that accrued to him out of the hull enterprise. And Uncle Sam, poor, childish old creeter, mebby wrote down aginst this hull job "three cents revenue." And mebby he rattled them cents round in his old pockets.
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