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Not so 'igh, Mr. Blennerhassett. There! So! 'Old on! 'Old on! A leetle more up! Ready! Fire!" In agitation, the gentleman drew the trigger, and the next instant a pane of window-glass, fully six feet from the outmost rim of Mr. Byle's straw hat, was shivered to pieces, and the fragments were heard to tinkle as they fell within the barn.
He uster go away to the city orften, and one time he got a-gamblin' in one of them there dens. He went ter the dickens right quick then. At last he kum home one time and tol' his folks he had up and sold the farm and all he had in the worl'. His leetle wife she died then. Tom he went crazy, and soon after " The narrative was interrupted by the little man, who became possessed of devils.
"Well we chattered along the road this way a leetle, jist a leetle faster than we travelled, for we made a snail's gallop of it, that's a fact; and night overtook us, as I suspected it would, at Obi Rafuse's, at the Great Lake; and as it was the only public for fourteen miles, and dark was settin' in, we dismounted, but oh, what a house it was!
"Arter all," he continues, still speaking in half soliloquy, "I don't think stayin's his game. There's somethin' else at the bottom on't." "Can Uraga have sent him back on any errand?" "No, that ain't it eyther. More like he's good on a errand o' his own. I reckon I ken guess it now. The traitur intends turnin' thief as well doin' a leetle bit o' stealin' along wi' his treason.
Captain Val wiped his moustache with the middle finger of his right hand, by way of saying that he quite assented to his wife's proposition; and Victoire remarked that 'Madame was a leetle anxious, just a leetle anxious; not that anything could be wrong with M. Tudere, but because she was one excellent mamma. 'I thought you knew, Mrs.
'Pray haven't you heard of a jolly young coal-heaver Who down at Hungerford used for to ply "A leetle leggy? p'r'aps, Barnabas, and yet ha!" 'His daddles he used with such skill and dexterity, Winning each mill, sir, and blacking each eye "His cannons'll never trouble him, Barnabas, come rough or smooth, and you didn't say a word too much in your letter.
"Ha! wantin' to keep up a leetle innercence?" "Jest so, Sooz'n, but I couldn't help hearin' a good deal somet'ing like dis: "Says Massa Lawrence, says he, `Arternoon, Miss Muchbunks. `Ditto to you, sir, says Manuela " "No, she didn't say dat," interrupted Susan, with decision.
"What are you going to do with me?" asked Dave, as calmly as he could, but with a sinking heart. "You will learn that later, Dave Morris." "You said you would take me back to my father's trading-post." "Did you believe zat? Ha! ha! you are a leetle fool! I shall take you to the west, far away, oui! Then your father shall come to terms, not so? He will do anything to geet back his only son."
But afore we parts company let's talk ther matter over a leetle more. I wouldn't love ter hev ye censure me for makin' no error." "Ther main thing," came the instruction of the employer, "air this: I wants ter be able ter get ye quick an' hev ye ack quick ef so be I needs ye, no matter when that be."
Ye're jist like me, and ye see I sorter spotted your ways to onct." "Then why did you come here this morning and disturb the school?" demanded the master sharply. "That's so, I sorter slipped up thar, didn't I?" said Uncle Ben with a smile of rueful assent. "You see I didn't allow to COME IN then, but on'y to hang round a leetle and kinder get used to it, and it to me."
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