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Accustomed all his life to fresh air and infinite spaces, the close, hot little log house oppressed him. His head felt heavy and his lungs choked. Jim felt likewise and made audible complaint, but the door was soon opened, and again it was Luiz and a comrade with food. "Luiz, you ain't no beauty an' you can't talk a real decent language," said Long Jim, "but I'm pow'ful glad to see you."
What did you say his Injun name wuz?" "Timmendiquas. That means Lightning in Wyandot, and our people have tacked on the word 'white. He's a great man, Sol, and I think we're going to meet him again." "Looks likely. I don't blame him for puttin' up sech a pow'ful good fight fur the huntin' grounds, 'though they look to me big enough for all creation.
All of them also put fur flaps on their raccoon-skin caps, and Shif'less Sol even managed to fashion an imitation of gloves out of deerskin. "I wouldn't advise you to try to use your hands much with these gloves on," he said; "leastways, not to shoot at anything till you took 'em off; but I do say that so long ez your hands are idle, they'll be pow'ful warmin' to the fingers."
His friend watched the train vanish into the forest. Then, as his horse was brought, he mounted and moved back toward the city. Presently the negro, on the other horse, came up almost abreast of him. "Mahs' Hil'ry?" he ventured. "Well, uncle Jerry?" "Dat's a pow'ful good-lookin' suit o' clo'es what L'tenant Greenfeel got awn." "Jerry! you cut me to the heart!"
And with this Uncle Isham betook himself to the solitude of his own cabin. "Well," said Letty to herself, as she rose and approached the bed in the corner of the room, "Ise pow'ful glad dat somebody's gwine to take de key bahsket, for I nebber goes inter dat sto'-room by myse'f widout tremblin' all froo my back bone fear ole miss come back, an' fin' me dar 'lone."
"Good mawnin Co'nel," said Uncle Ephraim, saluting politely; but the Colonel did not as usual pause to crack a joke with the docile old darky; he did not even vouchsafe a nod of recognition, but moved hastily on his way. Uncle Ephraim stood and wistfully watched the Colonel until he turned the corner of Second and Market streets. "Whoop! dar's er pow'ful big load on de Co'nel's mine sho.
Footfalls, shuffling, approached the speaker. "Tom Sands is daid, dat's whut he is," resumed the first speaker, "leastways as good as daid, 'cause he's just a-layin' thah an' kain't move er speak. An' look at me, look at my haid. De ol' man hit him pow'ful hahd, an' ef he didn't hit me jest de same, it wasn't no fault o' his'n, I tell you. He jes' soon killed bof of us niggers thah as not.
"Because all them that ever spoke 'em has perished off the face o' the land," Timothy answered oracularly. "Dead an' gone they be, lock, stock, an' barrel; yet there was a time when Latins an' Crustaceans an' Hebrews an' Prooshians an' Australians an' Simesians was chatterin' away in their own tongues, an' so pow'ful that they was wallopin' the whole earth, you might say."
"But where did he come from?" "I 'clar t' goodness I doan't know. All I knows is dat he jest comed. One day he wasn't dere, and come next day he was." "Does the professor know him?" "Suah! He's a friend ob de perfesser," added Washington. "De perfesser was pow'ful glade t' see him." "'Then he must be some scientist," said Mark. "Dat's it!
"Then you didn't hit him with your gun?" "No. I wish I had. I've got a fist like a boiled ham. I can feel it swell, right now." "That there mescal is sure pow'ful stuff." "Thanks!" said Bartley succinctly. "Got a kick like white lightin'," said Cheyenne. "And I paid our hotel bill," continued Bartley. "Well, that was mighty thoughtful. I plumb forgot it."
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