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"She's gone! ... She's gone!" Neale panted. "Wal, mebbe Slingerland moved camp an' burned this place," suggested Larry. "He was sore after them four road-agents rustled in heah." "No no. He'd have left the cabin. In case he moved Allie was to write me a note telling me how to find them. I remember we picked out the place to hide the note ... Oh! she's gone! She's gone!"
"Knew you was f'om de south minute Ah see yo'. Cain't fool me. Le'ssee now. You-all f'om ?" "I'm from the finest state in the Union. The most glorious state in the " "H'm Texas," grinned Red Cap. "How did you know!" "Ah done heah 'em talk befoh, son. Ah done heah 'em talk be-foh." It was a long journey through the great building to the section that had been set aside for Tyler and boys like him.
He ate gingerly of the tempting meal she prepared, and refused to have his bed straightened before he went to sleep. "Huccome you put yer pillow on the floor?" she asked. "I ain't believin' in feathers," he answered sullenly; "dey meks me heah things." In vain Amanda tried to cheer him; she recounted the affairs of the day; she gave him all the gossip of the Order of the Sisters of the Star.
While perplexed with this annoyance, one of them saw Frank standing in our crowd, and, touching him with his bayonet, said, with some sharpness: "See heah; you must stand back; you musn't crowd on them prisoners so." Frank stood back.
Fo' de good Laud, dat's de time dey miss der cotch. Dis darky was done gone when dey comed. I know'd dey'd be dar sometime for dis cat, and Marfa, too. I tells you, dey want her, dey do. She know how to cook and do things, she do. Be a cole day when dey gits dis cat agin, sho's you born'd. "Aunt Martha came in and said to Ham: "'What you doin' heah, Ham?
"Then all ye hev ter do is ter git yerself up ez ye see the young women who are ridin' 'round heah, an' airly on the day arter to-morrow mornin', mount a blooded mar that ye'll find standin' afore the door thar, all rigged out ez fine ez silk, an' go down the Lavergne turnpike, at a sharp canter, jes ez though ye war gwine somewhar.
Set right down on them stools, an' don't let me heah a word outen you tell them socks is ready to hev the heel sot. Ha'f a finger length more you've both got to knit." She measured the unfinished socks, and then handed each little girl her task. "Henry, you'll put yer eyes out readin' by thet fire, an' me an' Susan needs all the candle-light fur our wuck.
Folks 'roun' heah air beginnin' to tek big stock in schoolin'," she went on as she resumed her seat and began to sew. "So Squire Osborne told me," answered Dudley. "I'm glad the people are interested in educational matters." "Yes; Mr. Rogers, Hirum Gilcrest an' John Trabue air plum daft about it.
And heah is Massa Gen'l Tom, and Massa Jackson and Massa Capt. Day. Well! well! if dis isn't a sprize to ole Ham. "The General said: "'Ham, how did you get here? What made you run away? I thought you were going to stay with us. "'Yes, sah, I thought so, too; but, sah, de shell, de guns and de bums dey all come rite down over whar I was, and I not know how to fight.
I'se gittin' in turrible lazy habits sence I come heah. But come on in. Massa Seabury, he'll be powerful glad t' see yo'. So'll th' young ladies. Dey was sayin' only las' night, dat it seemed laik dem boys nevah goin' t' come. But heah yo' be! Yais, sah, I were jest thinkin' out on dat bench " But Panto's rambling talk was suddenly interrupted by a glad cry from the shrubbery.
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