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"There's a guy follerin' you," he explained. "An' th' two swells is drivin' aroun' in a cab like as if they wuz expectin' fun. They just passed you on th' avenoo, an' now they's comin' back. That's their rig cuttin' across there. See? I tell you, they's somethin' in the air, an' it looks as though it ain't goin' to pan out as they wanted it to." "What's the matter with you?
Crewe threw in his low speed. The five-year-old whirled, and bolted down the road at a pace which would have seemed to challenge a racing car; and the girl in the saddle, bending to the motion of the horse, was seen to raise her hand in warning. "Better stay whar you be," shouted one of the farmers; "don't go to follerin' her. The hoes is runnin' away." Mr.
"Tell ye what, old man! if you don't quit this dog-goned foolin' of yours in that God-forsaken tunnel you'll get loony! Times you get so tangled up in follerin' that blind lead o' yours you ain't sensible!" Here was the opportunity to tell him all, and vindicate the justice of his theories!
"De gospel it all right, bof in de dark an' de light o' de moon; but you keep on foolin' wid it an' follerin' it an' you gwine lose yo' min'. I knows whut I talkin' erbout. You got ter come ter de 'clusion dat de Lawd knows best an' not pry too fur inter his erfairs. Tom inquired. "Now, Mr. Tom, whut put dat inter yo' head? Ef I had ernudder quarter I could open up er 'skussion dat "
"Most times now," he went on, as he leaned forward and patted the dog, "I let the old dog have his way don't I, dog? but then it warn't a week ago that 'twas t'other way. Me and him was follerin' a buck on Bald Mountin, and he got set on goin' by way of West Branch, 'stead of travellin' a leetle mite to the south, what would have brung us aout, as I figger it, jest this side o' Munsey's.
You wuz sleepin' so purty that we could not bear to hev you waked up." Henry laughed. "Quit making fun of me, Sol," he said, "and tell me what's happened since I've been asleep." "Nothin' much. The Indians are still retreatin' through the woods across the Ohio an' Colonel Clark shows his good hoss sense by not follerin' 'em, ez some o' our hot heads want him to do.
What rough crosses the little fingers had got to grasp holt of, and onbeknown to me my mind fell onto the follerin' poetry "Our crosses are made from different trees, But we all of us have our Calvaries; We may climb the mount from a different side, But we all go up to be crucified."
"I ain't seen 'im since yer took 'im away YOU. I ain't one of your understrappers. Ez I wuz follerin' yer some one knocked me down from behind and nigh onto killed me. I jes gittin' my senses back." Although so enraged, Whately knew that as a soldier he must curb his passion, report the facts immediately and see what could be done.
He fell off every foot log in ten miles; why, he was drowned fourteen times in three weeks! "The bar we was workin' had a tunnel about a hundred foot long. Follerin' the pay streak made us turn at right angles, so it was dark back there. One day Mr. Pete was pushin' the car whilest I got dinner and his candle burned out.
But then, as I told Josiah as we went down the steps when he wuz blamin' me for this contrary temps, as men always will blame their pardners for most everything, I sez: "China is used to bein' backed into by foreigners, I guess they'll overlook it." I didn't bandy words with Josiah, I knowed I'd done my duty and that kep' me serene. When you're follerin' a star you don't mind the bite of a nat.
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