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He interrogated Chapman, however, but probably in that bantering way which is apt to produce reserve. Chapman never 'gave heed to them fictious tales, he said; but, when hard pressed, he allowed that he had 'heerd that a lady do walk o' winter nights, and that was why the garden door of the old rooms was walled up.
But I HAVE heerd say, that the coachmaker thought twice about it he he he! and that he told a young man as was a frind of his, that he hoped he knowed better than to be drawed into that; though she and all the family DID pull uncommon strong! Here she paused for a reply, and receiving none, went on as before.
"Downsta'rs tending to tings." "But but do you know there's an Indian in the house?" "I reckons so; we didn't know it at fust, but we found it out putty soon after he arrove; why didn't you told us?" "I tried to do so, but was afraid you wouldn't hear my voice." "We heerd you say somefin, but couldn't quite make out what it was."
"Well, I'd go an' I hain't got no daddy er mammy." Chad stopped his whittling. "Whut'd you say, Lissy?" he asked, gravely. Melissa was frightened the boy looked so serious. "Cross yo' heart an' body that you won't NUVER tell NO body." Chad crossed. "Well, mammy said I mustn't ever tell nobody but I HAIN'T got no daddy er mammy. I heerd her a-tellin' the school-teacher."
"An' here's now in New York, that's got to be so wicked honest folks can't live in it, a lot o' crazy men talking about building one of these here steamboats big enough to cross the Atlantic." "Der won't be much heerd of de mans nir de vomans vat goes in um," interrupted Hanz. "Peoples is not sho crazy as t'too any un de sort. 'Tis all hombug;" joined the doctor.
"While I was a-turnin' ober in my min' de subjec' ob dis sarmon, dere come ter me a bit ob Scripter wot I heerd at a big preachin' an' baptizin' at Kyarter's Mills, 'bout ten year' ago.
"Wiry Bill, we mostly calls 'im; but I think I've heerd say his rightful name was Mr. Pellet, mum. He's a little chap, as strong as the 'ouse," explained Pepper, who was an incorrigible cockney, "and he lives over there," pointing with his thumb to a mountain range behind us. "He's in one of them blind gullies.
"Nay, now, ma'am, you must hear me to the end," cried Caines, bursting into a guffaw; while Dick, looking somewhat conscience-stricken, patted his mother's hand and besought her in a loud whisper not to take on. "Lard bless 'ee, that weren't all!" exclaimed Billy. "You should ha' heerd the chap a-ravin' about her little hands, and her darlin' little feet, and I don't know what all.
"So I have heerd so I have heerd." He turned to the messenger. "We shall be ready fer 'em, suh, ready fer 'em with a thousand men one thousand men, suh, right hyeh in the Gap right hyeh in the Gap. Let 'em come on let 'em come on!" Mayhall began to rub his hands together as though the conflict were close at hand, and the mountaineer slapped one thigh heartily. "Good for you! Give 'em hell!"
I guess we'd better mosey away from this place. A good many trees have ears, you know." They walked off together in the direction of town. Stain was silent until they had put a hundred paces or more between them and the grove. "Seems that Violy is right smart taken with this Lapelle feller," he observed. "Well, I thought I'd oughter tell her ma what I heerd about him to-day.
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