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Before they got it right again, my eye fell on a small band o' red-skins, who were lookin' quietly on; and foremost among them the very blackguard as shot the man in the galley. I knew him at once by his ugly face. Without sayin' a word, I steps for'ard to the old Injun, and takes the noose off his neck.
Last night I was comin' down the pike over there chasin' home a contrary old gander of mine, and I looked over on your land and I see David settin' on a log with his head between his hands a lookin' like grim death, if I ever see it. My heart plum stopped. Says I, 'she's a failure! She's a bustin' the boy's heart!
Observin the place, I thocht I micht as weel step in and secure my ticket for the following day, when it was my intention to return hame. Accordingly, into the office I gaed; and, whan I did sae, I fand the clerk in earnest conversation wi' twa men, ane o' whom was busily employed in lookin owre the way-book or register o' passengers' names.
Then I guess you had better get a lady that knows more than me, says she, that's flat. And off she sot, lookin as scorney as a London lady, and leavin the poor minister standin starin like a stuck pig.
Pomper's head had tuckered her out, so I and my pardner sot off alone. All the way there my mind wuz real riz up thinkin' I wuz goin' to see sunthin' very grand lookin' and scriptural, and I said over and over to myself a number of times with deep respect and or, "Tabernacle! Tabernacle!"
Here's a comrade for yez a dacent boy that's lookin' for his larnin', the Lord enable him! Now be kind to him, an' whisper," he added, in an undertone, "don't be bringin' a blush to the gorsoon's face. Do ye hear? Ma chorp! if ye do! Now mind it. Ye know what I can do whin I'm well vexed! Go, now, an' get him somethin' to ate an' dhrink, an' let him sleep wid Barney in the feather bed."
"Yes, I do, now," adding excitedly an instant later: "Don't you 'member th' big bend in th' trail jest after we left th' camp we're lookin' fer? That fire ain't in th' woods. It's at our old camp, 'nd Charley Tommy built that fire, sure as shootin'." Dick was faint with excitement, and could scarcely hold his paddle. "We must get there soon as we can," said he. "Sure!" said Johnny.
And it would be fun, wouldn't it, sailing off for that enchanted coast to hunt for a real treasure island?" "'Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!" roars out Mr. Ellins. It's the battiest remark I ever heard him make. I was lookin' for Auntie to throw some sort of a fit. But she don't. She comes nearer chucklin' than anything else. "Mr. Ellins," says she, "I think perhaps I have misjudged you.
"I didn't see any in front of my mouth," sez Josiah, lookin' 'shamed but some composed. "And you know what the story wuz," sez he, "accordin' to that, he did it all to try her faith." I wouldn't encourage Josiah by even smilin' at his words, though I knew well what the story wuz he referred to.
What factory?" "That's just what we've got to find out," decided Ned. "Where did you get this?" he asked the farmer's boy. "Way off over there," and he pointed across miles of fields. "I was lookin' for a lost cow, and I went past an old factory.
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