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"Yes, a big one, with four warriors in it, an' they're comin' straight across to the main camp, paddlin' like the strong men they are." "Yes, I can see them clearly now, as they come nearer the middle of the stream. That would be a good canoe for us, Sol. It looks big enough." "But I'm afraid we ain't goin' to hev it, Henry.
"Ye hain't ben drinkin', hev ye?" To this Bacon only replied by a dignified stare and turned in silence to the table. "Which you agoin' to write first," said Droop, considerately dropping the question he had raised. "The bill of sale." "All right. I'd like to have ye put the one about the patent real strong. I don't want to fail on the fust try, you know."
I advised him not to send fur no doctor, fur ten chances tu one, they would prescribe brandy. Them doctors, as a general thing, don't know no better than to prescribe things fur young men that gits 'em in the habit of drinkin. I wouldn't hev the Honey heard you run down Mr. Tom, as you did, fur no money.
He moved away from the shadow by the fallen tree, stepped out into the open, went slowly to meet her, and his longing was intolerably acute. He was sick and mad with longing: he wanted her as a man dying of thirst wants the water that will save his life. "Oh, Mr. Dale, how you hev made me jump!" At sight of him she dropped the flowers and raised one of her hands to press it against her breast.
"See, something has been fired away to the right front. They may be working round that way and will miss us here. What are our chances?" "Nix," responded the scout decidedly. "Them critturs hev got to git around this way. They're on a line that'll strike Fort Randall, wi' a heap more military 'n they'll notion. They'll strike south an' sweep round sheer through to Wyoming.
Says I, 'Neighbor G., I wouldn't hev thought you would ever hev teched another mite of liquor after what we see last night. Says he, 'Mr. Roarer, I ken control my appetite. I know jest when fur tu stop. I shall go hum and kiss my wife and children and not drive 'em out of doors as Scotch Billy did.
An' they was half of 'em huddled in a bunch by the side-yard stile an' half of 'em runnin' 'round wild as anything. The whol' place looked like when you hev a bad dream. It made me weak in my knees, an' I was winded anyway with runnin', an' I stopped an' leant up against a tree, an' Eb, he stopped too, takin' bearin's.
"For fault of wise men fools sit on the bench, or we should hev none of this," continued Matthew. "I reckon some one that's here is nigh ax't oot by Auld Nick in the kirk of the nether world." "Then take care you're not there yourself to give something at the bridewain." Old Mathew grumbled something under his breath. There was a long silence. Ralph had rarely been heard to speak so bitterly.
'Well let her, God bless her; for I'm but a poor third man, I. The Lord have mercy upon the fourth!... Ay, Teddy's got his own at last. What little white ears that maid hev, to be sure! choose your wife as you choose your pig a small ear and a small tale that was always my joke when I was a merry feller, ah years agone now! But Teddy's got her.
"Then how are they going to get at us?" "Not straight-away, but by means o' tricks." "What tricks?" "I don't know. Ef they wuz so plain ez all that they wouldn't be tricks. We'll hev to be patient."
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