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"Well, he went, an' the coach hedn't no more'n got down the hill an' up again an' out o' sight behind the bridge 'fore she calls to me an' she says, ''Meelia Ellen, I believe I'm tired with all the goin's on there's been, an' if you don't mind I think I'll take a nap. So I helps her into her room and fixes her into her night things an' thur she's laid ever since, an' it's six whole weeks ef it's a day.
Yis, the smoke thickens; ef I didn't know that the boy would act with jedgment, and that he's onusually sarcumspect, I would sartinly feel worried about him. I hope he won't do anything resky for the sake of the pups. Ef he can't git 'em, he can't; and I trust he won't resk the life of a man for a couple of dogs." With these words the trapper relapsed into silence.
Nevertheless Mr. Sleight sat down and at once abstracted himself so completely as to be apparently in utter oblivion of the man who entered. He was lithe and Indian-looking; bearing in dress and manner the careless slouch without the easy frankness of a sailor. "Well!" said Sleight without looking up. "I was only wantin' to know ef you had any news for me, boss?"
Then, with his other hand, the scoundrel was about to hit Tom. "Break away four him, Mistah Swift!" directed the colored man. "Yo' can fight him, den!" "I guess he'll have his own troubles doing that," sneered Morse. "Not ef I help him," answered Eradicate promptly, as he climbed back off the seat, into the body of his ramshackle vehicle. "Don't you interfere with me!" stormed the man.
There were two men on board, a tall one and a shorter one; and they ran their boat right alongside "The Swallow," as if that were the precise thing they had come to do. "Burgin," remarked the tall man, "wot ef we don't find any thin', arter all this sailin' and rowin' and scullin'? Most likely he's kerried it to the house. In course he has."
They were glad that their child would have its awakening there when the great branches were in bud or tenderly young of leaf and that its eyes would open upon that broad spreading of filagreed canopy above the bedroom window, as upon the first of earthly sights. "Ef hit's a man-child, he's goin' ter be named Ken," said the young woman in a low voice. "But be hit boy or gal, one thing's shore.
So long as it was broad daylight, and he displayed no hostility, he knew he was safe and he had plans. Standing before the Hollman store were Jim Asberry and several companions. They greeted Tamarack affably, and he paused to talk. "Ridin' over ter Misery?" inquired Asberry. "'Lowed I mout as well." "Mind ef I rides with ye es fur es Jesse's place?"
As she met the boy's eyes, it was clear that her own held neither nervousness nor fear, and yet there was something else in them the glint of invitation. She rose from her seat. "I hain't ter say skeered," she told him, "but, ef ye wants ter walk as fur as the stile, I hain't a-keerin'." The youth rose, and, taking his hat and rifle, followed her.
"Ef Dad was along," said Dan, hauling up, "he'd read the signs plain's print. The fish are runnin' smaller an' smaller, an' you've took 'baout as logy a halibut's we're apt to find this trip. Yesterday's catch did ye notice it? was all big fish an' no halibut. Dad he'd read them signs right off. Dad says everythin' on the Banks is signs, an' can be read wrong er right.
As this restoration cost but one dollar and a half out of the five which had been given her by young Morton, she felt very well satisfied with the way matters had turned out. This did not, however, by any means diminish her rancor against Pomp, who had been the mischievous cause of the calamity. "Ef I could only get hold on him," Mrs.
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