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Entrance in cellar!" rapped a ghostly, muffled voice from beneath his feet. "Sam Tuk barber! Entrance in cellar!" Seton Pasha stood still, temporarily bereft of speech. Then, "Kerry!" he cried. "Kerry! Where are you?" But apparently his voice failed to reach the invisible speaker, for: "Sam Tuk barber! Entrance in cellar!" repeated the voice. Seton Pasha wasted no more time.
But I thought that he wud be sae glad an' sae proud to see his ain Jeanie sae sune. But, oh! ah, weel; I maun na think o' that. What I wud jest say is this' and she tuk a sma' packet frae her breast, while the saut tears streamed doon her pale cheeks 'he sent me forty dollars to bring me owre the sea to him. God bless him for that! I ken he worked hard to earn it, for he lo'ed me then.
"Pluck to the back-bone," said Goggins. "Well, he tuk the purses aff both o' them; and just as he was goin' on afther doin' the same, what should appear on the road before him, but two other travellers coming up forninst him.
Gotobed did look at the goose. "There's nine and twenty they've tuk from me, and only left un that." Now Mrs. Goarly's goose was well known in those parts. It was declared that she was more than a match for any fox in the county, but that Mrs. Goarly for the last two years had never owned any goose but this one. "The foxes have eaten there all?" asked the Senator. "Every mortal one."
"Wha' kind uv a nose hed he?" he inquired. "Roman," I said. "Bent in at the p'int a leetle?" "Yes." "And black hair shingled short?" "Yes." "An' tall, an' a kind uv a nasty, snookin', mis'able-lookin' cuss?" "Just about the look of him," I said. "Judas Priest! He's one o' them sneks et tuk me when you was fightin' t' other feller over there 'n the woods." "Looks rather bad for us," I remarked.
Y'r the dratted measly sapsucker that bounced me 'bout takin' likker inter camp. What bizniss wuz hit o' your'n whether I tuk likker in or not? Jest wanted t' be smart, didn't ye? Jest wanted t' interfere with a lone, lorn widder lady makin' a honest livin' for herself and 10 children. My ole man ketched the black ager layin' out in the brush to dodge the conscripters.
"Afther I was tuk away up to the hill beyant, and found her there, and but I b'lieve I didn't tell you how it happened." "No," said Oonah, coming forward, deadly pale, and listening anxiously, with a look of deep pity in her soft eyes.
"I guess they're all right fer simple cases," agreed Ben, "but w'en yeh git somethin' real bad yeh got to come 'ere. Look at yerself!" "Arrah! an' that was the docthor, Hivin be swate to him! He tuk a notion t' me fer a good turn I done him wance. Begob, there's a man fer ye! Talk about yer white min! Talk about yer prachers an' the like!
Jest astonished 'em! Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill, and made them Fort people take a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all. You see what I mean, Jim," she said hastily, as her brother seemed to be succumbing, like his pipe, in apoplectic astonishment, "jest on'y to SHOW 'em what we COULD do if we keerd.
Mars Walker say he s'picion' one er two er de niggers, but he couldn' tell fer sho, en co'se dey all 'nied it w'en he 'cuse em un it. "Dey wa'n't no bacon stole' fer a week er so, 'tel one dark night w'en somebody tuk a ham fum one er de smoke-'ouses.
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