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"Den w'en Brer Tarrypin feel um quit pullin', he dove down, he did, en ontie de rope, en by de time dey got ter de branch, Brer Tarrypin, he wuz settin' in de aidge er de water des ez natchul ez de nex' un, en he up'n say, sezee: "'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'd er had me, sezee.
I was hopin' widders was more definite, but it seems they're jest like all the rest on ye: poo! poo! hohum jest like all the rest on ye." "We've got to find her, cap'n; she sets sech store by talkin' along o' major." "Major!" sniffed the captain; "she ain't worthy to ontie the major's shoe-lockets; they ain't none on 'em worthy, maids, widders none on 'em!"
"'How about gittin' the meals? asts Hemenway. "'Wal, I'd set up, then, an' practise all night, says she. "'I'm afeard that 'u'd be pretty hard on yer paw, says Mr. Sneath, smilin'. 'Wal, Jud, we got ter be goin'. "So they gits inter their dude boat, an' Jess she skips along after 'em, an' jest as they's about to ontie she yells out to the soop'rintendent: "'Cain't I have it? Cain't I have it?
An' now, s'posin' I wuz ter ontie yer, Nancy Jane O, could yer tuck me on yer back an' cyar me ter de crick? an' den we'd hab de sho' thing on de gol'-stone, caze soon's eber we git dar, I'll git it, an' we'll cyar it bof tergedder ter de king, an' den we'll bof git de deares' wush uv our hearts.
Now wat yer say? speak yer min'. Ef'n yer able an' willin' ter tote me fum hyear ter de crick, I'll ontie yer; ef'n yer ain't, den far yer well, caze I mus' be er gittin' erlong.
I imagine, though, when the Judge hears about this, you'd better be hittin' the high spots. He's right ugly with horse thieves." "Hey, hain't ye goin' to ontie me?" squealed the man, as the four started down the bank with the horses. "You don't suppose I'd go off an' leave a good rope where you could get your claws on it, do you?
And knowin' you are a great case to investigate into truths, I thought mebby you would love to come, and witness some of our glorious spirit manifestations." I thanked her for her kindness, but told her "I guessed I wouldn't go. I didn't seem to be sufferin' for a seancy." "Oh!" says she: "it is wonderful, wonderful to see. Why, we will tie the medium up, and he will ontie himself."
"Oh!" says I. "I have seen that done, time and agin. I used to tie Thomas J. up when he was little, and naughty; and he would, in spite of me, ontie himself, and get away." "Who is Thomas J.?" says she. "Josiah's child by his first wife," says I. "Wall," says she, "if we have a good circle, and the conditions are favorable, the spirits will materialize, come before us with a body."
But while we was a-doin' that an' the boat is hitched tight to a stanchion 'longside o' the flume, the water backs up behind so high that it looks as though the pianner is a-goin' ter git wet. This skeers Jud, an' he seems to lose his head someways. "'Hustle up, Oram! says he, very nervous-like. 'The boat's crowdin' down so it won't let any water past. Ontie that rope.
"Well, Nancy Jane O, she stedded an' stedded in her min', an' by'mby she sez, 'Brer Frog, sez she, 'I b'lieve I'll try yer; ontie me, sez she, 'an' git on, an' I'll tuck yer ter de crick. Den de frog he clum on her back an' ontied her, an' she flopped her wings an' started off.
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