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From Flint House to the crass-roads it's straight as a dart, if you know yer way, with only one house twixt it till you come arver to it old Farmer Bardsley, who ain't got no wemmenfolk, so it's sartin she didn't come from theer. She wasn't a maa'iden from any of the farms of the moors, for I know them all. But it weren't till this marning that I got a kind of notion who she was.
"We'll keep chickens," she said, "because I do like fresh eggs for breakfast. Let's see; this is the way 'twill be; you'll get up about five o'clock and kindle the fire, and " "Hey?" "I say you'll get up at five o'clock and kindle the fire." "ME get up and kindle it?" "Sartin; you don't expect I'm goin' to, do you?" "No-o, I suppose not. It come kind of sudden, that's all.
What has that 'ere critter done that he should be sold arter that fashion? 'Done? said he, 'why nothin', and that's the reason they sell him. This is town meetin' day, and we always sell the poor for the year, to the lowest bidder. Them that will keep them for the lowest sum, gets them. 'Why, says I, 'that feller that bought him is a pauper himself, to my sartin knowledge.
As the water was very shallow in some places, they had to follow the channel; and it was sundown when they had moored her to the point they had reached in the bateau. "That will do very well," said Dan, as they made her fast to a tree. "De nigger-hunters neber find us here, for sartin," added Cyd, as he dashed the sweat from his brow. "We are not in a safe place yet," continued Dan.
'most dying! would breathe his last! warn't no help fo'h him! must die, sartin!! Such a ringing and dinging of bells, such a tampering up stairs, such a puffing and blowing of excited citizens as followed, never was heard or seen before. Although in a tight place, I was neither alarmed nor crest fallen.
Also there was a gymnasium and a place where you could play the pianner and sing till the sufferin' got acute and somebody come along and abated you. "When I fust went inside that clubhouse I see 'twas bound to be 'Good-by, Bill, for Jotham. His customers would shake his ratty old shanty for sartin, soon's they see them elegant new rooms.
"Not a word. But the looks he gives me when we meet would sour milk. He's dead sartin that I had somethin' to do with his boy's volunteerin' and he'll never forgive me for it. He's the best hand at unforgivin' I ever saw. No, no! Wonder what he'd say if he knew 'twas you, Jed, that was really responsible?" Jed shook his head, but made no reply. His friend was at the door.
"It's the devil's, that's whose it is, an' he's usin' sartin men in Glendow as human bellows to blow his vile wind aginst that man of God. That's what he's doin', an' they can't see it nohow." "And so you think the parson had nothing to do with Billy Fletcher's gold. You think he is innocent?" "Think it, laddie? Think it? What's the use of thinkin' it when I know it.
Then they cut a hole in the upper floor and the stone chimney and fitted the pipe. How keenly we watched the building of the fire! How quickly it roared and began to heat the room! When the Axtells had gone away Aunt Deel said: "It's grand! It is sartin but I'm 'fraid we can't afford it ayes I be!" "We can't afford to freeze any longer.
"Sure, sure, I'm well aware of that," and the prospector's eyes twinkled. "Now, this story of mine goes back quite a number of years. It is about a man who was carryin' on a very prosperous bizness in a sartin city, the name of which I shall not mention jist now.
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