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Therewith he repeated the rime, and Grannie burst into a merry laugh which however sobered rather suddenly. "I dinna won'er I was sayin' ower thae fule words," she said, "for 'deed I was dreamin' o' the only ane I ever h'ard say them, an' that was whan I was a lass maybe aboot thirty.
"Nobody can tell what'll happen when he's dreamin'," Samson remarked with a laugh as he rode away, waving his hand to the boy Josiah who stood looking up the road with a growing sense of loneliness. Near the sycamore woods Samson came upon a gray-haired man lying by the roadside with a horse tethered near him. The stranger was sick with a fever. Samson got down from his horse.
"Not with mellishus extent, as the judge says. Mebby it was a cigarette. I dunno. First thing I know I was dreamin' I smelt smoke and the dream sure come true. If them bars had been a leetle closter together, I reckon I would be tunin' a harp, right now." "How did you happen to jump our train and get off here?" asked Corliss. "It was sure lucky," said Sundown, grinning.
But Robert caught him by the shoulders, and shook him awake with no gentle hands, upon which he began to rub his eyes, and mutter sleepily: 'Is that you, Bob? I hae been dreamin', I doobt. 'Gin ye dinna learn to dream quaieter, ye'll get you and me tu into mair trouble nor I care to hae aboot ye, ye rascal. Haud the tongue o' ye, and eat this tawtie, gin ye want onything mair.
"Ya-as we do," answered Tenspot, "if yu hasn't dreamed about it, we do." "Yu wait; I wasn't dreamin', none whatever," assured Tex. "I saw it!" "Ya-as, I saw it too onct," replied Frenchy with sarcasm. "Went and lugged fifty pound of it all th' way to th' assay office took me two days! an' that there four-eyed cuss looks at it and snickers. Then he takes me by di' arm an' leads me to th' window.
I said she wuz dreamin', but I allow now ez I might hev been mistook, eh?" "You didn't come out to investigate?" "No; it war too stormy. I listened, but there wuz no more of the noise arter Sary waked me up. If yer father fell overboard I'm mighty sorry fer yer. If he did go over his body must be a long way down stream by this time." "Poor father!" It was all Dick could say.
The company melted suddenly into a group of men unbuttoning their shirts and tunics in front of the little board shanty where they were quartered, which had been put up by the French at the time of the Marne, years before, so a man had told Andy. "What are you dreamin' about, Indiana?" said Judkins, punching Chrisfield jovially in the ribs.
Blest if I kin make head or tail out o' it. Reckons as how them leetle fairy twins ye read about must 'a' ben workin' wile I slept; er else I'm dreamin' things that caint be true." "Listen, Mr. Growdy," Paul went on. "Perhaps you may not know that we have started a troop of the Boy Scouts here in Stanhope.
"Sho, yer dreamin', kid," said Sol Flatbush, the cow-puncher. "Thar ain't no Injuns like that in this yere part o' ther country. Why, an Injun wouldn't dare carry off a kid like that." "You don't believe it, eh?" exclaimed Dick hotly. "I believe yer," said Bud soothingly, for the boy was very nervous from being up all night and his hard ride, which would have taxed the energies of a grown man.
"Will you stay sober and watch and listen for some news of Allie? ... Till I come back to Benton?" "Neale, air you still dreamin'?" asked Larry, incredulously. "Will you do that much for me?" "Shore." "Thank you, old friend. Good-by now. I've got to rustle." He left Larry sitting on his cot, staring at nothing.
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