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"Wal," said he, shifting his tobacco from one sallow cheek to the other, "I reckon he and his boys rud out just afore you come in. Mark me," he added, "when I tell ye there'll be trouble yet. Tipton and Martin and the Caroliny folks is burnin' mad with Chucky Jack for the murder of Corn Tassel and other peaceful chiefs.
From the exhaust of the mill's engine a jet of white steam shot up sparkling. Close on its apparition sounded the exultant, high-keyed shriek of the saw. It ceased abruptly. Then Bob became conscious of a heavy rud, thud of mill machinery. All this time he and Fox were walking along a narrow board walk, elevated two or three feet above the sawdust-strewn street.
"It iss a pleesant night, whatever," remarked old McKay, lighting his pipe with a brand plucked from the fire which his family and the Davidsons shared in common; "an' if it wass always like this, it iss myself that would not object to be a rud savitch." "I don't know that a rud savitch is much worse than a white wan," growled Duncan junior, in an under-tone.
Why, they haven't any teeth! There are no bones in them at all; I'm sure you could eat them quite well." "Pah! Beastly!" Pelle spat on the ground. "I shouldn't be at all afraid of biting one; would you?" Rud lifted a little mouse up toward his mouth. "Afraid? Of course I'm not afraid but " Pelle hesitated. "No, you're afraid, because you're a blue-bag!"
"I have been at Stone Farm since I was eight, and that is the biggest farm in the north country." He had put his hands in his pockets, and spat coolly in front of him, for that was nothing to what he had in reserve. "Oh, so you're a farmer chap, then!" said one, and the others laughed. Rud was among them. "Yes," said Pelle; "and I've done a bit of ploughing, and mowing fodder for the calves."
The two boys never called her anything but "the Sow" between themselves. So Rud had to go. He was allowed to take the greater part of the contents of the dinner-basket with him, and ate as he ran. They had been too busy to eat. Pelle sat down among the dunes and ate his dinner. As usual when Rud had been with him, he could not imagine what had become of the day.
It's her spirit, of course!" "Then the mouse's spirit can very well be up there too." "No, it can't, for mice haven't got any spirit." "Haven't they? That was one for Rud! And the tiresome part of it was that he attended Sunday-school. His fists would have come in handy again now, but his instinct told him that sooner or later Pelle would get the better of him in fighting.
No such knowledge is necessary, for God hears the prayer of the ignorant and illiterate and of the babes. Augustine defended from the sneers of the learned, those who prayed to God in rude and barbarous words, or words which they did not understand. Rud. The Church has bound religious, both men and women, to say the Office in choir, even though they may not understand Latin.
He bent his fingers backward and moved his ears; he could move them forward in a listening position like a horse. All this irritated Pelle intensely. Suddenly he stopped. "Won't you give me the half-krone, then? You shall have ten krones when I grow up." Rud collected money he was avaricious already and had a whole boxful of coins that he had stolen from his mother. Pelle considered a little.
Pelle waded quickly in, and was going to set the mouse at liberty. "Wait a minute, you donkey!" Rud snatched the bottle from him, and holding his hand over the mouth, put it back, into the water. "Now we'll see some fun!" he cried, hastening up the bank. It was a little while before the mouse discovered that the way was open, but then it leaped.
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