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"Ye'll hev ter take hold of this," he directed, "we've got t'other end indoors. When ye're ready for us or should he seek ter git away jest give hit a tight jerk or two. We won't interfere with ye ner come out till we gits thet signal but don't suffer him ter parley overlong."

"Ye kin hev a little ride, an' see the hay-makin'. Pooty sight 'tis, to my thinkin'." "May I?" cried Hilda, eagerly. "I am sure these fowls have had enough. Go away now, you greedy creatures!

"By Jove! there are the rabbits," said Frank, levelling his gun. "Jeerusalem! so they air," exclaimed Mr Lathrope. "Dew let me hev the first shot!" "All right; fire away!" replied Mr Meldrum, who was ready to aim at a couple of the little creatures that were sitting up on a fragment of rock right opposite the three sportsmen, apparently combing their whiskers and eyeing them curiously the while.

An' now, little un, if you're agreed, we'll hev a bite o' breakfast." A short breakfast, composed of hard biscuit and ham, washed down with cool water from a neighboring brook, served to fortify both for the duties that lay before them; and after this Zac proposed an immediate start. He led the way along the bank of the creek, and Margot followed.

'I've got t'go an' ten' to some business o' my own. I'll be back here sometime if day Mis Fuller an' I'll hev if see thet girl. Ye musn't never try if keep me 'way from her. She's sot on my knee too many year fer that altogether too many. We arranged to meet there at four. Then a servant brought us our hats. I heard Hope calling as we passed the stairway: 'Won't you come up a minute, Uncle Eb?

"But I do mind," she said, catching hold of his sleeve. "I won't let you go until you confess." "I'm a-goin' to tell Isaac Worthington what I think of him, that's whar I'm a-goin'," cried Ephraim "what I always hev thought of him sence he sent a substitute to the war an' acted treasonable here to home talkin' ag'in' Lincoln."

He was dragging his feet from his waterlogged boots. "Hear them suck now?" he commented. "Didn't hev to think about a wetting onced. But I ain't young any more. There, I guess I ain't caught a chill." He had whipped his breeches off and spread them on the sand. "Now you arrive down this here hill from Ioway, and says you: 'Where's that ferry?

The full day clothed the earth in a light that turned from silver to gold, and the woman and the children still slept. The five chewed some strips of venison, and looked rather lugubriously at the pieces they were saving for Mary Newton and the children. "We ought to hev more'n that," said Shif'less Sol. "Ef the worst comes to the worst, we've got to land somewhar an' shoot a deer."

He knew that she was struggling to say something for his comfort, and he had a terrible moment of fear lest the wagon should begin to move and her feeble voice be lost in the clatter of the wheels. But presently her shrill tones rang out, "No harm kin kem, sonny, ter them ez hev done no harm. All that happens works tergether fur good, an' the will o' God."

To hev had YOU, you that I left behind, comin' down here rollin' in wealth and new partners and friends, and arrive upon me and this shanty and" he threw towards the corner of the room a terrible gesture, none the less terrible that it was illogical and inconsequent to all that had gone before "and and THAT BROOM!" There was a dead silence in the room.