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"You can put in your order now for them earrings we were mentionin', Mr. Deadeasy. You see, I had to puncture this one so folks would know they were mates." "I'll put you in the pen for this," the fellow whined, in terror. "Funny how you will get off the subject. We were discussin' an apology when you got to wandering in yore haid." The mottled face showed white in patches.
And if my haid is going to get shook by a little old piece of newspaper I'm ashamed I burned that. I'm ashamed to have been that weak." "Any man gets unstrung," I told him. My ropes had become straws; and I strove to frame some policy for the next hours. We now finished breakfast and set forth to catch the horses. As we drove them in I found that the Virginian was telling me a ghost story.
"Hit's a man, Miss Dimple," she said, in an excited whisper, "with a gre't big haid an' long hair, an' somethin' on his back." Florence and Dimple looked at each other. "Let's peep and see," whispered the latter, as the rapping, which had ceased, began again. They peeped timidly through the shutters. "He looks queer," said Dimple, "maybe he is crazy."
"Just look at him with his head up in the air like he thought dinner fo' we uns would drap right down to him out o' the sky! If he's aiming to find a bird's nest with eggs in it this time o' year, he sho'ly am plumb foolish in his haid. No, Sah!
Ketch me goin' out and confabbin' around with the ol' man! He'd shore hang somethin' on mah haid. Mr. Trask, 'fo' God, I can't git no sleep when I'm a-worried. It all kind o' makes my skin go all crawly when there's somethin' projectin' around and I don't know of it. Yo' shore there ain't nothin' bad nohow?" "There will be, if you don't get out of that door! Go bring some water."
'Pears like he jes' gotter let his haid drap furward. Dar ain' no use talkin', boss, dat hinge wuks ovuhtime. I 'spec' mine done it, too, jes' like you say, 'long 'bout 'leven. Yas, suh, I reckon dat's right." "How about the time between midnight and two in the morning? Was the hinge working then?"
She'd been a-jerkin' an' a-rollin' an' a-foamin' et the mouth wussen a mad dog, tell she wuz clean tuckahed out, an' thah she lay in the straw 'roun' the altah, her pink caliker dusty an' tore lak she'd been a-chasin' through a briah patch, straws stickin' out all ovah her haid.
She said in a deep voice, as she brandished them at May Lilly, "With my two long speahs I'll poke yo' eyeballs through yo' yeahs." The little darky fell back giggling. "That sut'n'y was like a billy-goat. We had one once that 'ud make a body step around mighty peart. It slip up behine me one mawnin' on the poach, an' fo' awhile I thought my haid was buss open suah.
No indeedy, but I done reckon yo' has hurt yo'se'f, honey! Look at yo' pore haid!" and she pointed her fat finger at Bert. "Why, what's the matter with my head?" he asked, putting up his hand. He felt something sticky, and when he looked at his fingers, he saw that they were covered with white stuff. "Oh, it's the frosting off the cake!" said Nan with a laugh.
And it was at this moment that Neale either remembered the strange, low moan or heard it again. He reined in his horse. "I'm going back," he called. "What fer?" Slingerland rejoined. Larry King wheeled his mount and trotted back to Neale. "Red, I'm not satisfied," said Neale, and told his friend what he thought he had heard. "Boy, you're oot of yur haid!" expostulated Red. "Maybe I am.
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