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"The Bible! oh yes; but am I doin' it right?" he inquired; "am I puttin' the explanation to it as I ought? Sure they all oxplain it, and it's only fair that Raymond should show his larnin' as well as any of them.
A know the Cree tongue, an' A know the need o' decency in th' tepees, an' A know the trick o' puttin' Christianity into th' end o' m' fist on white blackguards! An' that's all." "Is that all?" repeated Wayland; and he gave the old frontiersman the same kind of a look, Matthews had given him that day going up the face of the Pass precipice.
"I knows all 'bout what slave uprisin's is, but never in my life has I seen anything lak dat. Never! Never! We aint never had no lynchin's, neither. He come to de state o' Mississippi once an' hel' a meetin' in Jackson. He made a gran' talk. He made mention 'bout puttin' money in de bank. Lots o' darkies made 'membrance o' dat an' done it. "I's a Nigger what has been prosperous.
Puttin' on his airs out West is all right, but puttin' 'em on here to home, among us that knows him and all his breed, is makin' some of the old residents kind of sick. Si Wallace hadn't ought to call him by that name he did, but Si is talkin' the way a good many feel."
"How do you know?" demanded the other. "Cos I look at 'im over his shoulder while I'm puttin' things in the cupboard," said Henry. The mate stopped and regarded his hopeful young friend fixedly. "I s'pose you look over my shoulder too, sometimes?" he suggested. "You never write to anybody except your wife," said Henry carelessly, "or your mother. Leastways I've never known you to."
"But Andy Gilmore was back of that lie; it was him told me what I was to say, and it's him that kept houndin' me, puttin' me up to say more than I ever agreed to!" He slouched nearer the judge. "Boss, I chuck up the whole business; do you understand? I want to take back all I said; I'm willin' to tell the God A'mighty's truth!" He paused abruptly.
An' the long an' short of it, Lord, is jest this he's a dyin', an' he wants a chance to die with his mind easy, an' nobody else can make it so, so we leave the whole job in your hands, only puttin' in, fur Billy's comfort, thet we recollect hearing how yer forgiv' a dyin' thief, an' thet it ain't likely yer a-goin' to be harder on a chap thet's alwas paid fur what he got. Thet's the whole story.
Meeker, poker in hand, was on the defensive. "I'm gettin' a horse out my horse." "Well, you want to be quick about it. You got to clear out of here. Anybody in the house?" "No. What are you puttin' us out for?" "Fire. You don't want to lose any time. We've orders to get the people on the move.
And disthracted she was seem' him goin' out in their ould boat, that's laiks enough in her to sink the biggest ship ever set sail, and herself wid scarce the width to hould a sizable flounder. Sez I to Felix one wild evenin', when we was argufyin' wid him, that sure the little loadin' he could be puttin' in her 'ud never be worth losin' his life for.
While I was a-wonderin' what ter do, I happened to think about puttin' it under the saddle; so I hunted round and found a sharp stone, and managed to cut some putty fair slices out ev the leg, and clapped 'em under the saddle and rode on.
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