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"O o oh!" gasped Winnie; "I never did you'd ought to know you've just gone'n drownded me!" "What a story!" said Gypsy; "you're no more drowned than I am. To be sure you are rather wet," she added, with a disconsolate attempt at a laugh. "You oughtn't to have tooken me out on that old raft," glared Winnie, through the shower of water-drops that rained down from his forehead, "you know you hadn't!
"Auntie, I know now it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean. I didn't, honest. And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh at you that night." "What did you come for, then?" "It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we hadn't got drownded."
"Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread." "Well, you wouldn't a ben here 'f it hadn't a ben for Jim. You'd a ben down dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn' mos' drownded, too; dat you would, honey. Chickens knows when it's gwyne to rain, en so do de birds, chile."
That man loves to save his steps; and then, as I soon see, he had another idee in his head. Sez he, "I always wanted to be a mariner I will hire a boat and be your boatman." "Not with me for a passenger, Josiah Allen," sez I. "I want to live through the day, anyway; I want to live to see the full glory of my sect; I don't want to be drownded jest in front of the gole."
I thought I was dreamin', and only had wits enough to give a sort of permiscuous grab at him and call out: "'Oh, Lisha! ain't you drownded? He give a gret start at that, swallered down his sobbin', and sez as lovin' as ever a man did in this world: "'Bless your dear heart, Cynthy, it warn't me it was the pig; and then fell to kissin' of me, till betwixt laughin' and cryin' I was most choked.
"It's you that's been kind," said the Captain. "You've made a home for me; somethin' I ain't had afore sence I was a boy." Mrs. Snow went on as if he had not spoken. "And to think that you might have been drownded the same as the rest," she said. "I knew somethin' was happenin'. I jest felt it, somehow. I told Elsie I was sure of it. I couldn't think of anything but you all the forenoon."
"I'm tellin' you as it was told to me, but I never stopped to inquire into the matter so close before. Seems like folks wouldn't know so much about mermaids if they hadn't seen 'em; an' yet accordin' to all accounts the victim is bound to get drownded." "P'raps," suggested Trot softly, "someone found a fotygraph of one of 'em." "That might o' been, Trot, that might o' been," answered Cap'n Bill.
'Yes, yes; drownded, said the Captain, soothingly; 'as I was saying, if he could be here he'd beg and pray of you, my precious, to pick a leetle bit, with a look-out for your own sweet health. Whereby, hold your own, my lady lass, as if it was for Wal'r's sake, and lay your pretty head to the wind. Florence essayed to eat a morsel, for the Captain's pleasure.
So he told her how he was "drownded" and how a lady had saved his life. Effie listened with wide set eyes, and then said that she wanted to see the lady, which she presently did. At that moment there came a knock at the door, and Mr. Granger entered, accompanied by Dr. Chambers. "How do you do, sir?" said the former. "I must introduce myself, seeing that you are not likely to remember me.
Don't forget the tip? Lord, how I long to walk into some o' these chaps, and give 'em the beans! and I will yet afore I'm many days older, hang me if I don't. I shall bust, I do expect; and if I do, them that ain't drownded will be scalded, I know. Chah! chah!
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