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"I will ask him if he knows where the child lives," he was saying to himself, when the little girl exclaimed: "Ah! there's 'ma; look, she's looking frough the window." "'Ma;" she cried, "I've had a ride." Mr. Rougeant looked round. So this was where the child lived. He descended from the phaeton holding the little girl in his arms and stood confronting his daughter. They recognized each other.
"Which way, Marsa Frank?" asked Toots, as they reached the gate. "To Wellsburg," answered Merriwell, "and get us there in a hurry. Show us what these ponies can do over twenty miles of good country road." "Yes, sah," grinned the colored man, "Ah'll let de hosses out a notch or two, sah, jes' as soon as we git frough de village."
A gemman, too, as has been a visitor in dis dentical house. Marster catched him in de act ob takin' out de silver, and de gemman robber, I mean felt so 'shamed ob himself dat he up and banged a bullet straight frough his own bussom, afore Miss Elsie, too!" "Poor thing; precious little darling," cried Tom; "Mellen's left her all alone, and Elizabeth away; dear me! Dolf, Dolf, what was that?"
They saw a woman in a white apron hurry out from the lodge and open the gate; they saw the carriage pass through and the gates close again. Then Bobby spoke very solemnly: 'Did you see who was in the carriage? A lady in a white dress, and she had a right to pass frough. 'You are a funny boy, said True with a little laugh. 'She belonged to the house, and she's just going home.
This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within fifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was holding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green oats, newly reaped, passed by, and he remarked, 'Yon's frough Gimmerton, nah!
An' he gwine along jes as fast as he kin' whin he come' to de aidge ob de buryin'-ground whut on de hill, an' right dar he bound to stop, 'ca'se de kentry round about am so populate' he ain't able to go frough. Yas, sah, seem' like all de ghostes in de world habin' a conferince right dar. Seem' like all de ghosteses whut yever was am havin' a convintion on dat spot.
We shall have to get frough them some day. 'It'll be very nice, said True comfortably. Bobby looked at her, and his mouth pursed itself up gravely. 'Everybodies don't get frough. Some are shut outside. 'Oh! Why? 'Because they haven't white dresses on.
I kin go frough dat ma'sh blindfolded in de night an' cotch a possum airy time along airy one ob dem fences;but dis yer foolin' wid lan's on paper is too much for Chad. 'Fo' Gawd, I doan' know!" Chad on his own Cabin Floor
"I guess you didn't notice dat big hole dey come nigh burning frough de roof, did you?" "Oh, yes; I saw it; it would have been much worse but for you; I hope the fire didn't injure your shoe." She turned her foot and looked at the broad sole of the heavy shoe, as though the thought had not occurred to her before. "It am scorchified a little," she said.
It went right frough de fust feller's eye, and den frough de oder one's foot, den frough de oder's gizzard, and half way frough de tree. Gorra, how dey wriggled! Looked just like a lot of mackerel hung up to dry. Heigh!" At this point Leland discharged his gun, and said, without changing his position: "They are trying to approach the house. Go, Zeb, and attend to your side. Be very sharp!"
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