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"Leave 'em on. Leave 'em on," commanded Kitchell. "Use 'm as a shrou'. All ready now, stan' by to let her go." Wilbur looked over at the schooner and noted with immense relief that Moran was not in sight. Suddenly an abrupt reaction took place in the Captain's addled brain. "Can't bury 'um 'ithout 'is teeth," he gabbled solemnly. He laid back the canvas and replaced the set.
And yet he believed this was a message from on high to be up and a-doin'. "This church, brethren, has jest got to be replaastered, an' I don't see how we goin' to do it 'ithout we have a outpourin' o' the spirit that'll give us mo' church membehs."
For the last two days the blessed child might not ha' been in existence, he's such a comfort." "Well," said 'Beida, "you may be right. But I never yet knowed 'Biades quiet for half this time 'ithout there was somebody's bill to pay at the end o't."
The mar ud then have a better chance for herself; an' maybe, when eased o' draggin' my carcass, that wur a-keepin' her back, she mout make footin' somewhur. So I waited till she got a leetle closter; an' then, lettin' go o' her tail, I clasped the log, an' crawled on to it. "The mar swum on, appeerintly 'ithout missin' me.
Le's me and you git up a show in your stable, and don't let none o' the other boys be in it! I kin turn a handspring like you, and purt' nigh walk on my hands; and you kin p'form on the slack-rope and spraddle out like the 'inja-rubber man' and hold a pitch- fork on yer chin-and stand up on a horse 'ithout a-holdin' and and Oh! ever'thing!"
And when I'd had all I wanted, I felt a good deal better, and I says to her, 'I'll fret over it no more, Gracie: if it's his'n, let him take it 'ithout more words. "She read me a story out of the paper that made us both laugh right hearty, and then a chapter, as usual, and then we went to bed. And all come round jest as it did afore.
Potts how "th' insides were got in 'ithout tearin' th' outsides," and greatly satisfied with her new information, she clattered off down stairs, shaking her head all the while, and repeating absently to herself "Well now, there's nothin' can bate 'em, nothin' at all, at all."
He made but poor swimmin' himself, an' appeared glad enough to get upon dry groun' 'ithout molestin' me; so we swum on side by side, an' not a word passed atween us. "I didn't want to make a race o' it; so I let him pass me, rayther than that he should fall behind, an' get among my legs.
"Why, jest arter I'd killed the goat, an' war heisting it on my shoulders, I spied a Injun glidin' into the bushes. I seed it war a squaw; an' jest the picter o' the Chicasaw. She 'peared as ef she hed kim right from hyar, an' I thort you must a seed her." "Did you get sight of her face?" "No, her back war torst me, an' she kep on 'ithout turnin' or stoppin' a minnit.
Then he hummed a bit o' 'Fishin' for the Maid I Loves, 'ithout thinkin' much about the toon. 'Cook, says he, 'I loves you. You is on'y a half-witted chance-child, says he, 'but I loves you like a brother. "'Does you, skipper? says the cook, with a grin, like the fool he was. 'I isn't by no means hatin' you, skipper, says he.
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