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At the first alarm of Scoville's return in the morning he had dashed into the grove, and next concealed himself on a distant eminence from which he could watch events. Under the cover of darkness he returned, and experienced grim satisfaction when he discovered the hated Union officer among the prisoners. "They say he's ez slip'ry ez a eel." "Do so, Perkins.
I don't know whether it's the toddy I've took thet calls my attention to it or not. She always seemed to see me in him but I never could. Far ez I can see, he never taken nothin' from me but his sect an' yo' name, son, of co'se. 'Cep'in' for me, you couldn't 'a' been no Jones 't least not in our branch. Put yo' hand on my forr'd, son, an' bresh it up'ards a few times, while I shet my eyes.
"But ain't t'other a boy, ez well?" inquired Jerry; "and hain't he got ten times as much sense? However, less go and look at that wagon, and see what's got ter be done to it." The repairs kept Jerry and myself busy during the forenoon; and, after they were finished, Jerry proposed that we should take our rifles, and see if we couldn't get some game on our own account.
"The Dwillerbys is ristycrats," he had said. "They're ristycrats, an' it gives 'em a pull even if they was rebels an' Southerners. A pore man ez works hard an' ain't nothin' but a honest farmer, an' a sound Union man ain't got no show. Ef I'd been a ristycrat I could hev got inflooence ez hed hev pulled wires fur me. But I hain't nothin' but my loyal Union principles.
And as my medical man prescribes a certain amount of stimulation for my system, I shall expect to be furnished with such viands or even" she coughed slightly "such beverages as may be necessary. I am far from strong yet my wants are few." "Ez far ez I am ketchin' on and followin' ye, ma'am," returned Prosper timidly, "ye'll hev everything ye want jest like it was yer own home.
Reckon I'll take a couple in my hands an' one or two sticks o' wood an' I'll draw a bucket o' water too an' tote that in. Goodness! but this back yard is bright ez day! Goin' to be a clair, cool night moon out, full an' white. Ef this ain't the stillest stillness! Thess sech a night, for all the world, I reckon, ez the first Christmas, when He come
Thar ain't no white people in these parts 'cept ourselves an' ef thar wuz they wouldn't be so foolish ez to build a fire that sends up smoke. So it's bound to be Injuns. They're a big band, so big that they ain't afeard o' bein' attacked. That's the reason why they're so keerless 'bout thar smoke. An' 'cause the band is so big it ain't jest hunters.
Now when I've gone fifteen or eighteen hours without food I have a feelin' an' it's a strong one, too that I'm goin' to be hungry, an' I'm sca'cely ever mistook, jest ez I've got a feelin' when the skies are filled with big black clouds that it's liable to rain purty soon. I tell you, Paul, it's a great thing to have this here power you call second sight."
Per la fe qu'icu vos deg, als sous faitz e als ditz ez a la captenensa sembla mielhs Antecritz que messatges de Roma.
He won't kick, an' he won't mind it, a-tall, a-tall. Instead o' that it'll give him a kind o' home-like feelin', bein' ez I've hung on to his tail myself so many times when we wuz goin' along paths not more'n three inches wide in the mountain side. You won't bother or upset him. The biggest cannon that wuz ever forged couldn't blast him out o' the path."
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