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It ain't like the Oro, where first they found gold, and then, when they thought they'd got the lot, come across more in the cobbles. Not only that, but by some scientific process or other you wouldn't understand if I told you they washed the river-bed, so the sand and stones riz.
Mayor, says I, 'I am goin' to shoot Fowler. And the mayor he riz out of his chair and he took me by the hand, and says he, 'Mr. Simpson, if you do I will stand by you'; and the judge he says, 'I'll go on your bond." Fortified by this cordial approval of the executive and judicial branches of the government, Mr. Simpson started on his quest.
He'd great hooks in 'em sharper 'n the p'int uv a needle. An' when he was goin' t' sleep he'd run 'em out jes' like an ol' cat kind o' playfull 'n purr 'n pull. All t' once the boy felt sumthin' like a lot o' needles prickin' his back. Made him jump 'n holler like Sam Hill. The panther he spit sassy 'n riz up 'n smelt o' the ground. Didn't neither on 'em know what was the matter.
"You tried to kill my Uncle Bob at the tavern, you and Captain Murrell. I heard you, and I seen you drag him to the river!" cried Hannibal. Slosson gave a start of astonishment at this. "Why, ain't he hateful?" he exclaimed aghast. "See here, young feller, that's no kind of a way fo' you to talk to a man who has riz his ten children!" Again Bunker swore, while Jim told Slosson to make haste.
Far' yer well, Brer Coon! I wuz born an' riz in de briers! And wid dat he lit right out, he did, an' he nuber stop tell he got clean smack home." The children were mightily pleased with this story; and Diddie, after carefully writing underneath it, "The END of The Tar Baby,"
A sudden radiance seemed to illumine the sad, dun-colored folds of the encompassing cloud; her face shone with a transfiguring happiness, for the hustling old crone had handed out to her a warm, somnolent bundle, and the shutter closed upon the mists with a bang. "The wind's riz powerful suddint," Peter said, noticing the noise as he came stumbling in, rubbing his eyes.
I'm sorry ye did that, Dan'l," said Mrs. Bigsby. "With that he riz up," continued Dan'l, ignoring his sister, "and, takin' them counterfeit notes from my hand, sez he: 'Them notes belong to ME now, sez he, 'and I'm goin' to destroy 'em. And with that he walks over to the fire as stiff as a poker, and held them notes in it until they were burnt clean up."
"'S-Soc., have you fallen? Bill stammered. "'No, I've riz, I said. 'Don't blame me, ol' man, I had to do it. I've adopted some orphans. I'm goin' to have an orphanage on the hill; but it will take a year to finish it. I'm goin' to have five children. They're beauties, an' I know that I'm goin' to love them. I propose to take them out of the atmosphere of indigence an' wholesale charity.
'Deceivin' lookin' man, ain't he? Seen him often, but never took no pertick'lar notice of him before. 'How deceiving? I enquired. 'Talked so kind of plain, he replied. 'I could understan' him as easy as though he'd been swappin' hosses. But when you got up, Bill'. why, you jes' riz right up in the air an' there couldn't no dum fool tell what you was talkin' 'bout.
But I don't want to have no more trouble with Hank, and I jest lays there. I hearn two men coming through the underbrush. I riz up on my elbow to look, and one of them was Doctor Kirby and the other was Looey, only Looey wasn't an Injun this morning. They sets down on the roots of a big tree a little ways off, with their backs toward me, and they ain't seen me.
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