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Injuns are a pest, just like wolves and painters, only worse. They must be wiped out. That's my belief and I make it my business to wipe them out. Few men that's got more'n me." It's a waste of time to talk with a bloody-minded man. Hughes' brother was killed by the Indians. As for that, there was hardly a settler in Virginia who had not lost some dear friend or relative.
I've learned him to fetch cows an' shake hands an' an' everything! An' he drug me out'n the lake, when I was a-drowndin'! An' he done a heap more'n that fer me! He's drug me up to my feet, out'n wuthlessness, too; an' he's learned me that livin' is wuth while! He's my my he's my dawg!" he finished lamely, his scared eyes sweeping the circle of faces in panic appeal.
Taylor has his eye on you already." Lute glanced apprehensively toward the cashier's desk and turned to go. "Well!" he exclaimed, "I've said you was crazy more'n once, that's some satisfaction. Say! can I tell 'em to home?" I hesitated. "You may tell Dorinda if you like," I answered. "But I prefer to tell Mother, myself." George rose from his desk just then and Lute hurried to the door. I smiled.
Stephen and I were christened there. But, of course, if you had rather go somewhere else " "No, no! I hadn't anywhere in particular to go. I'm a Congregationalist to home, but Abbie says I've spread my creed so wide that it ain't more'n an inch deep anywhere, and she shouldn't think 'twould keep me afloat.
I hitched him to the open buggy an' went 'round by the East road, 'cause that ain't so much travelled. He went along all right till we got a mile or so out of the village, an' then I slowed him down to a walk. Wa'al, sir, scat my ! He hadn't walked more'n a rod 'fore he come to a dead stan'still.
She hadn't more'n got through an' stepped outside when Josh come home, an' what should he do but take the wheelbarrer an', beat out as he was drivin' oxen five mile, go down to the gravel-pit an' get a barrerful o' gravel. He wheeled it up to the side door, an' put a plank over the steps, an' wheeled it right in. An' then he dumped it in the middle o' his clean floor.
Think because there's a donkey-engine on deck and a riggin' to hoist your big sails, ye don't re'lly need men for'ard at all. "That v'y'ge out in pertic'lar I remember that there was two weeks on a stretch that not a soul aboard had more'n an hour's undisturbed sleep. And that dog!
"'Here? says I; 'here in the church? "'You know Friendship, he says, hoppin' along. 'Not half a dozen houses could take in more'n two extry, even if we hed the time to canvass. An' we ain't the time. They want their s-u-p-p-e-r right now, he spells it out, an' lit out nimble when Mitsy dropped the handkerchief back o' the little blond girl.
Daggett's small, faded blue eyes regarded him curiously. "Did yuh ever meet up with this here Stratton?" he asked abruptly. "I a know what he looks like." "It's more'n I do," grumbled Pop regretfully. "The only two times he was here I was laid up with a mean attack of rheumatiz, an' never sot eyes on him.
Oh, we kin tow her astarn in plain sailin', 'n' when we come to a cataract we can put Sweeny in an' let her slide." "No ye can't," said Sweeny. "It's big enough, an' yet it won't howld um, no more'n a tayspoon'll howld a flay." "Wal, we kin let her slide without a crew, 'n' pick her up arterwards," decided Glover. We must hasten over the minor events of this remarkable journey.
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