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He had begun to pull up the Cardinal and had fallen a little behind, but he understood at once, shook out his reins, and leaned over in his saddle. The nose of the Cardinal came almost to my knee and hung there. Jud caught at my bridle, but he could not reach it.
That means they sneaked up behind him and shot him while his back was turned." "He's wakin' up, granddad," said Jud, more frightened than before. The eyes of Andrew were indeed opening. He smiled up at them. "Uncle Jas," he said, "I don't like to fight. It makes me sick inside, to fight." He closed his eyes again. "Now, now, now!" murmured Pop. "This boy has a way with him.
"I'd like to git you into the mill," said Jud. "I'd put you to wuck doin' somethin' that 'ud be worth while." "Oh, yes, you would for a few years," sneered back Archie B. "Then you'd put me under the groun', where I'd have plenty o' time to res'." "I'm goin' up there now to see yo' folks an' see if I can't git you into the mill." "Oh, you are?
"But Paul meant something else," declared Jud Elderkin, wisely. "You see, if only that rain does come, and it's heavy enough, there's going to be a lot more water in this old canal than we need to pull through with. You know how quick the Bushkill River rises; and I guess it's the same way with the Radway." "Oh! don't we wish that there'll just be a little old cloud-burst!" cried Gusty Bellows.
There was the utmost eagerness to carry out the idea, and before five minutes had passed every boy had written his name on a slip of paper, together with the full amount which he could contribute to the general fund. "I appoint Jud and Bobolink a committee to canvass the vote, and count up the amount subscribed," said Paul, as chairman of the meeting.
"Tell me, Archie B., lad an' I'll try to enlighten you in my po' way." "Well, now; it's this jes' suppose you wus goin' along now say to school, an' seed a dorg, say his name was Bonaparte, wantin' to eat up a little monkey; an' a lot of fellers, say like Jud Carpenter an' Billy Buch, a-bettin' he cu'd do it in ten minutes an' a-sickin' him on the po' little monkey this big savage dorg.
"It's no use," I said, "we can't tell." And I sat up. The two neither answered nor paid the slightest attention. No bacteriologist plodding in his eccentric orbit ever studied the outlines of a new-found germ with deeper or more painstaking care. Presently they began to compare their discoveries. "He was a Hambletonian," began Jud; "don't you see how long the shoe is from the toe to the cork?"
Then, too, he borrowed on his prospects, and he lost a hundred thousand dollars at Monte Carlo within six weeks after he graduated. "One way and another he was always in the newspapers, and when he saw how Jud was throwing money away Clifton went wild. "As Henry had burned the letters he had no proofs. He didn't know who his mother was, but he set to work to find out.
Travis glanced around the circle of the four or five who were left and said pompously: "Come up, gentlemen, and have something at my expense." Then he walked up to the bar. They came. They considered it both a pleasure and an honor, as Jud Carpenter expressed it, to drink with him. "It is a good idea to mingle with them now and then," whispered Travis to Charley.
Don't you recognize Jud Harkness driving the first team there?" "Hello, folks!" bellowed Jud, from his seat. "How be you, Mis' Pratt? Think we'd clean forgot you? We didn't know you was in such an all-fired lot of trouble, or we'd ha' been here before. We're come now, though, and we ain't goin' away till you've got a new house. Brought it with us, by heck!"
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