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"Wouldn't be much of a colonel if he wasn't. There, dear lad, don't you fret yourself about that. I've heered the men here say you did wonders for such a boy, and a big sergeant who fetched you off your horse was up here yesterday " "Yesterday?" interrupted Fred. "Why, we were travelling yesterday!" "That we were not, my lad, for we've been lying here two days." "Oh!" ejaculated Fred.
"Why, I hadn't got far from the house, when I heered a growl, and there was the tiger in the field, looking over the fence at me." "Seems to me that was just the chance you wanted, if he was looking at you." "I s'pose it was; but to own up, Tom, I didn't think of it. I was afeard he would go for your folks. So I thought I would walk down and tell you." "Did you walk all the way?"
"Why, they're off on a spree, that's all," said Grandpa Keeler, comprehensively, giving me another significant glance; "they're off on a spree, and ye see they think this 'ere is jest a right fur enough out the way place for 'em. This 'ere red-haired one that was in here this evenin', Rollin his name is, he's a dreadful rich one, I suppose, dreadful rich! I've heered all about him.
He never hed none er them wandrin' spells till arter thet. Naow I allow thet wa'n't right eh thet docter. I wouldn't hev no sech docter's thet raound my Agency, ef I wuz yeow. Pr'aps yer never heered uv thet. I told Ramony I didn't bleeve yer knowed it, or ye'd hev made him go." "No, Aunt Ri," said the Agent; "I could not have done that; he is only required to doctor such Indians as come here."
"'Tween you and me, you've disgusted the Honey," said he, "speakin so unrespectful of her friends." "She don't know nothing about it," said Sorrel Top. "'Tween you and me she stood right behind you and heered the hull," said Daddy triumphantly. "I don't believe it," said Sorrel Top, getting very red in the face. "I'll leave it to Miss Hawley," said Daddy. Mrs.
The crazyest lookin' lot of stuff I ever set eyes on." "Wall, anyway," sez I, "it is a good crazy, if it is, and a well-meanin' one." "Oh, how cross Josiah Allen did look as he heered me say these words. That man can't bear to hear me say one word a praisin' up another man, and it grows on him. But good land! I am a goin' to speak out my mind as long as my breath is spared.
Uncle Coffin sprang from his chair, and with a grave face, which only later broke out into those beams of affection which were storming his bosom, shook him violently by the collar, dragged him across the floor, and set him in a chair by the fireplace with a loud, conclusive thump. "Dodrabbit ye, man!" said he, "I hain't heered your voice since I was a baby."
I reckon, from what's happened to that chap Ronald since, that it wor the White Lady of th' Pit we heered. It's lucky for us we didn't see un." "I remember at the time you mentioned something about it." "Ay, she be a terr'ble bad sperrit," said Mr. Duney, wagging his head unctuously.
Down the back steps he came, running eagerly and calling Frank. Once more in the kitchen began the flop of the churn, once more rose the wail of the song. "Away on de mountings he heered its cry, Sick an' helpless an' ready to die " Twice more did Tommy drive the intolerable rooster away. The first time he chased him deep into the corn, almost to the pasture.
Who leaned to him? Who brooded over him? Who put arms beneath him? Who looked at him, as those look who love the sick too much to shrink from them? "I don't know You," said Zerviah, in a distinct voice. Presently he smiled. "Yes, I guess I do. I see now. I'm not used to You. I never saw You before. You are Him I've heered about God's Son!
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