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I haven't spoken of it, because I doubt if the thing is feasible. He wants to see whether the water, of the spring can be brought into the hollow here piped, to feed a permanent drinking trough and fountain. Good for evil, you see the soft answer." "Well, that's business! That gits down where a man lives. His cattle kin come in on that, too.
"You were going to tell me about the bird's-eye," he reminded. "Ut's loike this: Here an' yon in th' timber there's a bird's-eye tree bird's-eye maple, ye know. 'Tis scarce enough, wid only a tree now an' again, an' ut takes an expert to spot ut. "Well, th' bird's-eye brings around a hundred dollars a thousan', an' divil a bit av ut gits to Appleton's mills.
Beg your parding, sir," she added, to the seaman, "the boy 'an't got no sense, besides bein' wicked and naughty 'e ain't 'ad no train', sir, that's w'ere it is, all along of my 'avin' too much to do, an' a large family, sir, with no 'usband to speak of; right up the stair, sir, to the top, and along the passage-door straight before you at the hend of it. Mind the step, sir, w'en you gits up.
"Wal, it's about all the consolation she gits out o' life, an' 'twixt you an' me she takes more'n all the rest o' the believers here," answered Uncle Terry, "an' at times I 'most envy her fer it. She don't airn more'n 'nough to keep soul an' body together, an' winters some on us allus helps her.
She walked as far as the table, which checked her, and she halted against it blindly. "There you are," said Big Tom. He tossed the roses upon his coat. "Go on, now! Hurry! Don't wait round till the old man gits t' fussin'; and" as she gathered the roses up and made slowly toward the door "don't do no howlin' on the street, or folks'll think y're crazy."
Keep 'em busy and chase 'em clean out of their hats and back to camp." The destruction of the blockhouse and the trestle could be left to the army behind; the scouts moved on again. "The boys are havin' themselves a time." Kirby returned to his post with the advance. "Tyin' bowknots in rails gits easier all the time.
"She really does like him; but she does the washin' fer the Camp, an' helps with the dishes, an' sews when she kin git a job at it. But there ain't none of 'em reg'lar, an' sometimes there ain't more'n enough fer us two t' live on. Then she gits pretty tired an' discouraged like, an' says Baldy's a useless expense, an' keeps me from doin' my chores, 'cause I like t' play with him, an' "
I's gwine pray fur you de fust chance I gits, an' it won't be long now dat my rush is sorter ober fo' I does git er chance. But ef you'll jest gib me er quarter mo' I'll leave off ever'thin' an' pray fur you right now." "No, that's enough." "Doan blebe much in pra'r, does you? Wall, I hatter make dis do." Mrs.
But she don't stand any too steady when a poor man wants to fork her and ride out of trouble. He's got to have a morral full of grain to git her to stand and even then she's like to pitch him if she gits a chanct. I figure she's a bronco that never was broke right." "Well," and Owen smiled, "we got pitched this time. We lost our case." "You kind o' stepped up on the wrong side," laughed Pete.
"Hit's my bounden duty, though," he declared, staunchly, "ter call on you ter arrest him an' hold him till I gits me them extradition papers from Frankfort an' then hit's yore bounden duty ter fotch him ter ther state line an' deliver him over ter me." "I'm ther man thet decides what my duty is," came the swift retort, and Thornton raised a hand to quell incipient argument.
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