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"Jason, I heerd two fellers in the lane to-day' talkin' about tearin' up Colonel Pendleton's tobacco beds." The boy was startled, but he did not show it. "Nothin' but talk, I reckon." "Well, if I was in his place I'd git some guards." Marjorie sat at her window a long time that night before she went to sleep.
"I seen fellers with worser judgment as you, Abe," Morris said. Abe could not forbear a stare of astonishment at this grudging admission. "At last you got to admit it, Mawruss," he cried; "but anyhow, Mawruss, go ahead and finish up this here permanent-mortgage-loan business, and then, Mawruss, I will do all I can to help you out." Morris rose to his feet.
That white Injun beside you will be one of the first to stick burning splinters into your carcass. He's lived with redskins too long to forget his red tricks. Come on, fellers." This sorry disturbance depressed the spirits of the settlers.
The five, though no one of them ever for a moment forgot their great mission of saving Kentucky, had a feeling of content. Affairs were going well. "Paul," said Shif'less Sol, "you've read books. Tell us about some o' them old fellers that lived a long time ago. I like to hear about the big ones." "Well," said Paul, "there was Alexander. Did you ever hear of him, Sol?"
I reckon now I'll have to keep a little closer hid myself. These fellers all seem to get chilly or shaky when they draw a bead on me, but one of them might jest happen to hit me." "Won't you go away leave Cottonwoods as I've begged you to before some one does happen to hit you?" she appealed to him. "I reckon I'll stay." "But, oh, Lassiter your blood will be on my hands!"
I do love him. Is it nothin' to make a man love at all? How many fellers get more kicks than coppers in their life have no home, nobody to love them and nobody to love, in whose breast all the affections are pent up, until they get unwholesome and want ventilation. Is it nothin' to such an unfortunate critter to be made a stable help? Why, it elevates him in the scale of humanity.
"Fellers, I had a cougar soft-footing after me in that dark canyon, my cayuse ran away on a two-foot ledge up the wall, an' I saw a ghost!" There was a respectful silence. Johnny, waiting a reasonable length of time for replies and exclamations, flushed a bit and repeated his frank and candid statement, adding a few adjectives to it. "A real, screeching, flying ghost!
"Find out by seein' the cow if he hez gone, an' by not seein' no cow if he hain't. I'm comf'table either way it turns out. One o' them writin' fellers that was up here summerin' said, 'They also serve who'd ruther stan' 'n' wait' 'd be a good motto for me, 'n' he's about right when I've ben hayin'. Look down there at the shiners, ain't they cool? Gorry! I wish I was a fish!"
The man led the way, and Tipsie and the colonel followed, and the trio suddenly found themselves before a small log hut, in front of which sat three solemn, disconsolate-looking individuals, who looked appealingly at the colonel. "Mac'll tell yer how 'twas, fellers," said the colonel, meekly, "while I picket the mare."
I had this ear frost-bit, and it's been tender ever sence. One of the fellers had a rib broke; he was a little light chap, and the wind jest slammed him up against the cart like as if he was a chip. And jest to show you," he added, "how the tide runs around this place, the bodies of that crew was picked up from Wellmouth to Setuckit P'int twenty-mile stretch that is.
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