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Jim drops down and picks him up. Doctor Duchesne, ez was along, allowst it was a played-out prospector, with a big case of paralysis, and we expressed him through to the County Hospital, like so much dead freight.
But I 'lowed 't war toler'ble sassy in Birt ter stand thar peerin' at me through the chinkin'. I never let on, though, ez I viewed him. An' then, them eyes jes' set up sech a outdacious winkin' an' wallin', an' squinchin', ez I knowed he war makin' faces at me. So I jes' riz up an' the eyes slipped away from thar in a hurry.
"I don't mean ter ax ef yer's jes got nothin' agin' him, but is yer that kind ob a friend ez 'll stan' by him in trouble?" "What do you mean, Nimbus?" asked Hesden in surprise. "Will yer come wid me, Marse Hesden slip on yer clo'es an' come wid me, jist a minnit?" Hesden did not think of denying this request. It was evident that something of grave importance had occurred.
An' ez Tom knowed I war snake-bit las' June, he went home an' tole his mother ez the p'ison hed done teched me in the head, an' said he reckoned, ef the truth war knowed, I hed fits ez a constancy. I say FITS!" Once more the bewildered tanner glanced from one to the other.
"Tobe," she said, in a bated voice, "who war them men?" He stared at her, whirled about, surveyed the vacant landscape, and once more turned dumfound-ed toward her. "What men?" he asked. "Them men ez acted so cur'ous," she said. "I couldn't see thar faces plain, an' I dunno who they war." "Whar war they?" And he looked over his shoulder once more. "Yander along the ledges of the big rock.
It's pizen, quicksilver pizen. That's what's the matter with me. I'm salviated! Salviated with merkery. "I've heerd o' it before," continued Johnson, appealing to the boy, "and ez a boy o' permiskus reading, I reckon you hev too. Them men as works in cinnabar sooner or later gets salviated. It's bound to fetch 'em some time. Salviated by merkery." "What are you goin' to do for it?" asked Tommy.
Nobody is nowadays, but you talk like them fightin' an' prayin' old fellers, an' you wander 'roun' the West jest ez they wandered 'bout the land o' Canaan, but shore that you will git to your journey's end at last.
"It 'ud seem beyond the possibility of belief," he says, "thet them conglomerations uv ice, hard froze an' lookin' ez tight fixed ez a mainstay, for all thet hev a downard slitherin' motion, jest like a stream o' water, tho' in coorse thousands or millions o' times slower." "Oh! that's well understood," asserts the skipper, acquainted with the latest theory of glacier movement.
"I thot I should o' drop through ther floo', but I braced up waiter, another bottle ez I war sayin', I braced up and said, 'Bless me, madam, I war expectin' ther teacher'd be a man; but walk right in, we'll do ther best we ken for yer.
"Ez I couldn't find a wife fur myself, I can't undertake ter recommend one ter my nephew. Mighty fine boy he'd hev been, an' saaft-spoken an' perlite ter aged men not sassy an' makin' game o' old uncles like a niece. Mighty fine boy!" "Ye air welcome ter him," she said, with a simulation of scorn, as she turned away to the table.
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