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The men clum into the riggin' before she struck, but the old cap'n was staggerin' 'round decks, kind o' dazed and dumb-like, not tryin' to do anythin' to save himself. The mate tried to git him into the riggin', seein' he wan't in no condition to look out for himself; but the old man struck loose from his holt and cried out to him through the noise: "'Let me alone! I've got to go with her.
Then both young hunters leaped up and dressed as rapidly as possible. "He was a slick one," said Aaron Masterson. "He got free of the rope around his wrists somehow and then he clum to the top o' the harness closet and into the loft. From the winder he dropped onto the shed an' then to the ground." "But what of your dog? Didn't he go after him?" questioned the doctor's son.
'T warn't till I come through the swamp at Bear Pond that I struck yer tracks seen 'em plain then and the way ye was a-goin'. Long 'bout four o'clock to-day I heared some fellers' voices ahead of me down in a holler. Then I see smoke and knowed they was camped close by. Bimeby I crawled out from whar I was hid and clum a tree.
No wan hadn't seed um, an' they clum aboord th' thrain, cursin' an' swearin' vingince on Creed phwin they caught um. "Thin, maybe it's two wakes afther, we wuz settin' in Burrage's phwin th' dure bust open, an' in come Rad Cranston loike th' divil wuz afther um. "'They's a woild man, he yells, 'come out av th' woods, an' he's tearin' things up in Creed's cabin!
"Well, Nancy Jane O, she stedded an' stedded in her min', an' by'mby she sez, 'Brer Frog, sez she, 'I b'lieve I'll try yer; ontie me, sez she, 'an' git on, an' I'll tuck yer ter de crick. Den de frog he clum on her back an' ontied her, an' she flopped her wings an' started off.
And with a almost breakin' heart clum into the car, Miss Meechim and Dorothy and Aronette having preceeded me before hand. Yes, I left my own Josiah behind me, with his bandanna pressed to his eyes. Could I leave him?
There was mostly men folk aboard, and we lay around the deck in our pajamas, while Billy Gaston Maundeville, dressed in striped red and white pajamas clum up in that bally pulpit, with the ship's Shakespeare in his hands, an' let us have 'The quality o' mercy isn't strained; it droppeth as the genteel dew from heavun. Laugh, I tell you I was sore with it. Lord, how we guyed him!
"Yes, but s'posing you should fall," wailed Allee in sudden terror, for the water-pipe looked like a very frail support even for a child as small and light of foot as was Peace, and the corner with the projecting porch roof seemed so far away. "There's snow on the ground. I wouldn't get hurt. But you needn't think I'm going to fall. I've clum lots harder places than that before.
"An' he jes clum up de side uv de den, he did; an' soon's uber his feet tech de yeath, he sez ter de king, sezee, 'King, hit ain't no usen fur yer ter fool erlong o' me, sezee; 'I'm er prayin' man mysef, an I 'low ter live an' die on my knees er prayin' an' er sarvin' de Lord. Sezee, 'De Lord ain't gwine let de lions meddle long o' me, sezee; 'I ain't fyeard o' nufn, sezee.
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