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"Nuthin'," said Uncle William, hastily, "nuthin'. 'T ain't wuth turnin' your head for. I'm al'ays seein' things. Get up in the night, like enough, and wander round the island, jest to see 'em. Go all over the island some nights. You see a good deal that way fust and last: little critturs runnin' round, softlike, and the moon and stars " Uncle William was talking against time.
I said this wuz in the spring, an' so it wuz all around us; but it wuz cold and winter here. One day mother sez to me: "Reuben," sez she, softlike, "Marthy an' I is goin' to the buryin' ground for a spell. Don't you reckon it would be a good time for you to step over an' see Bill while we 're gone?" "Mebbe so, mother," sez I. It wuz a pretty day.
"I found the parlor, but the lights were out; so widout lookin' for the sofa I was afraid somebody'd come and catch me I slid her into a rockin'-chair, laid the key on the hall-table, shut the door softlike, rang the bell as if there was a fire next door, jumped on me box, and driv off. "The next mornin' I went to see His Lordship. "'Did ye land her all right, Fin? "'I did, sor, I says.
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