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"Then you be'nt dyin', after all," was Sam's rueful comment, as he suggested: "Ef massah only clamber onto Rocket."
"Mattie, sometimes when I'm asleep I think I am back there ag'in and you girls are there an' we're pullin' off the leaves of the wild sunflower 'rich man, poor man, beggar man' and I hear you all laugh when I pull off the last leaf; and then I come to myself and I'm an old, dried-up woman, dyin' unsatisfied!"
He intimated, too, that nobody but blue-bloods could git the'r names enrolled, and thar has been a powerful scramble for places, even by folks that have no idea of dyin' yet a while. You see, Alf, I got a good many particulars at fust hand, for he was out here to see Hettie in regard to accommodations for Dick, and I heard all that was said.
In my pain an' trouble, lookin up yonder, wi' it shinin on me I ha' seen more clear, and ha' made it my dyin prayer that aw th' world may on'y coom toogether more, an' get a better unnerstan'in o' one another, than when I were in 't my own weak seln. Louisa hearing what he said, bent over him on the opposite side to Rachael, so that he could see her.
Through creeks and rivers and swamps he led that poor fellow. His boots got chuck full o' cold water, and when the sun went down it friz into solid hice; and that misfortnit man he felt his legs which was his life, you see, ma'am gradially dyin' under him. Yet he was a well-plucked one, if ever there was such a party on this airth.
"What?" "Dyin'." A new tenderness was born in her at the moment, seeing what he had endured. "No," she wanted to say, "I hope you won't have to go through that twice." But she only shook her head brightly at him. "Come," said she, "it's time to harness up." "I'll drive down through that cross-road," said Eben, "an' then I've finished up all them little byways.
"I hope I'll see yeh once in a while, boys, to taik over old times." "Of course," said Saunders, whose voice trembled a little, too. "It ain't exactly like dyin'." "But we'd ought'r go home with you," said the younger man. "You never'll climb that ridge with all them things on yer back." "Oh, I'm all right! Don't worry about me. Every step takes me nearer home, yeh see. Well, goodbye, boys."
The boy backed away a pace or two, and stood gently moving his head about, and staring with his large pale eyes, as a calf stares at a dog. "Speak, you dyin' oyster!" said Clem, kicking his shins. "Ernest," said the boy, with a sudden gasp, turning fiery red and twisting his fingers into knots. "Ernest what?" said Clem.
Only sit at home and do nothing, or else go out and watch the grass witherin' and the water dryin' up, and the stock dyin' by inches before your eyes. And no change, maybe, for months. The ground like iron and the sky like brass, as the parson said, and very true, too, last Sunday.
How old is she, for the land sakes?" Zoeth told them the visitor's age. "Well, maybe so," went on Isaiah, "but she don't talk seven; nigher seventeen, if you ask me. Pumpin' me about funerals, she was, and about folks dyin' and so on. Said she cal'lated she'd have a doll's funeral some time. 'For mercy sakes, what for? I says. 'Can't you think up anything pleasanter'n that to play?
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