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'Peared a bigger roar than any flood before. As it happened, I was alone, an' it took time to git the hosses up. If there'd been an Indian with me or even Joel mebbe " His voice quavered slightly, broke, and then he resumed. "Even when I got the hosses over to the landin' it wasn't too late if only some one had heerd me an' come down. I yelled an' shot. Nobody heerd. The river was risin' fast.
Ye could na help it that the wild bird flitted, and I heerd how ye roon like a brave lassie to stop her. But the evil wourld is quick to see the bad and slow to see the gude." And Malcom escorted her like a "leddy o' high degree" to his little parlor, and there she told him and his wife all her trouble, and Malcom seemed afflicted with a sudden cold in his head. Then Mrs.
Then he names a price that the hide might fetch, under favorable circumstances, in Boston Jethro does not wince. "Who d'ye callate to vote for, Sam'l?" Samuel rubs his nose. "Heerd they was a-goin' to put up Fletcher and Amos Cuthbert, an' Sam Price for Moderator." "C-comin' by the tannery after town meetin'?" inquired Jethro, casually. "Don't know but what I kin."
'Wal, sir, I've heerd yer from the North, and I'd like to know if yer an ab'lishener. 'My dear sir, you surprise me. You certainly can't expect a modest man like me to speak of himself.
"Faith," he exclaimed, "that's a foine burd, an' a purty burd too; an', begorrah, he spakes the purtiest name I ivver heerd tell on in me loife." He looked at Jenny as he said this; when, she too coloured up.
The girl laughed. "Well, if this ain't the beatenest! I've heerd June talk about you. My brother Dave don't like you overmuch," she added frankly. "I reckon we'll see Dave purty soon. If this ain't the beatenest!" she repeated, and she laughed again, as she always did laugh, it seemed to Hale, when there was any prospect of getting him into trouble.
I had a great respect for him, and I am sorry for his sake you will act as you do; but I tell you once for all you must give up all thoughts of Sall, now and for everlastin. When Sall heerd this, she began to nit away like mad in a desperate hurry she looked foolish enough, that's a fact.
Who'd ha' thought, neebors, as that young limb as plagued our very lives out 'ud ha' bin here today, a general, an' a great man, an' a credit to his town an' country? Us all thought as he'd bring his poor feyther's gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. An' when I heerd as he'd bin shipped off to the Injies well, thinks I, that bin the last we'll hear o' Bob Clive.
"More like an angel put it into my head. But I see Mr. Elisha's fidgetty, so I'll make short work o' the rest. He curst and swore awful, callin' Mr. Alfred a mean pup, and I dunno what all, but he hadn't so much to say ag'in Mary Potter; he allowed she was a smart lass, and he'd heerd o' Gilbert's doin's, and the lad had grit in him.
"It ain't the truth I'm tellin' y'": Lizzie was loquaciously going over the story for the twentieth time, "It ain't the truth I'm tellin' y', y' onderstand; it's ownly what I've heerd." The Ranger dropped out of the group at the Cabin. Bat stood bellicosely scowling at the three figures receding down the Ridge Trail. "What in Hell is that old parson doing with that Shanty Town kid?
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