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"Will we have to fight them cavalry again tomorrow jest the same way?" asked little Pete, still somewhat nervously. "Lord only knows," answered Shorty indifferently, feeling around for his pipe. "A feller never knows when he's goin' to have to fight rebel cavalry any more'n he knows when he's goin' to have the toothache. The thing just happens, and that's all there is of it."
Jest then Groundhog cum runnin' up to help Billings, and reached over and ketched Abe, but I hit him a good biff with the musket that changed his mind. Billings turned on me, and called out to the others: "Men, I order you to arrest this man and tie him up." Sum ov them seemed a-mind to obey, but I sung out: "Feller-citizens, he ain't no officer no more'n I am.
Really!" "Only a little girl a mere child, Mr. Grey not more'n fourteen if a day," responded Richards, in embarrassed depreciation. "Yes, but those people marry at twelve," said the editor, with a laugh. "Look out! Your appreciation may have been noticed by some other admirer."
"Possibly we can dew better in th' mornin', though it's more'n I can see how, seem' that thar's nuthin' but th' face of a solid wall of rock tew search; an' we've searched 'bout every inch of that that we can a'ready," and he threw his big frame down on the ground and stared at the wall of rock wrathfully.
There's more'n one, sure. An' from the things I've heerd tell from the boys on the neighbourin' ranges it's happening all along through our limits. They tell me there's queer things doin' an' no one seems to locate the meaning right." "What sort of things?" The dark man spoke sharply. Peter's reply came after profound deliberation. "Oh, things," he said.
The only sound was the plash of the waterman's sculls and the grinding of the rowlocks. At last they came upon Battersea Fields. "The pollard oaks, waterman," said Jarvis. "Do you know 'em?" "Right well, your honour. You're not the first gentlemen I've took there. More'n than have come back, I'll swear." The fellow's words weren't encouraging, but Vane did not seem affected by them.
Instead of a little more'n one hundred dollars behind in the interest we are mighty near on to six, and by right figures, too. It just hasn't measured out any year, and I never stopped to count it at so much.
"That's more'n anybody else in these parts would do. Why, everybody's heard about Hal Dunbar. Everybody's scared of him. He can ride anything that's big enough to carry him; he can fight like a wildcat with his hands; and he can shoot like" his eye wandered toward a superlative "like Pete Reeve, almost," he concluded with a tone of awe. A spark of tenderness shone in the eye of Bull.
An' Abel had the rest over by the other stove tellin' 'em stories. I heard him say dragon, an' blue velvet, an' golden hair. "I hadn't more'n got inside the door before Zittelhof's wagon come with the cots. An' Mis' Zittelhof was with him, her arms full o' bedclothes she'd gathered up around from folks. I never said a word to Abel about the trouble with Timothy.
Then they mounts th' other tew hosses an' goes a-ridin' off a-leadin' the hoss with th' dead body across its back ahind 'em; an' in ridin' off, they comes within a dozen rods of whar I was a-hidin', an' I sees 'em plain, an' I was s'prised tew see that they didn't look tew be much more'n boys; an' yit they 'peared tew have killed a man!
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