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Then as we near the farm house and see the light in the sick-room window, fear clutches our hearts again. "You boys unhitch," says the doctor. "I'll go right in." Presently, when we enter the house, we find that he is in the sick-room the door closed. No word of comfort has come forth. He has sent out for hot blankets. The stoves are to be kept burning. We must sit up. We may be needed.
Kittie, unhitch Prince for me, will you, while I lock up?" "Oh, Bea, dear! I hope you will always be so happy," exclaimed Ernestine, with a wistful sadness in her voice, as they drove slowly home; and she laid her head on Bea's shoulder with a tired sigh. "It all seems so lovely, and I am so glad, though I shall miss you so after you are gone."
"Well, I'll take charge of him, if you don't wish to make the long journey, Mr. Upton." "I'll never know how to thank you, if you will," said the farmer gratefully. "Hi, there, Robert." "Me?" droned the boy in the seat across the aisle. "Who else do you suppose?" snapped his stepfather testily. "Come, rout out there, or I'll unhitch a strap somewhere and make you step lively."
After looking my horses over carefully, and without leaving his carriage, he replied: "For one hundred and twenty-five dollars to boot." "All right, sir. Here is your money," and I counted it out and handed it over to him. "But what sort of a team are you trading me?" "No matter, sir. You have got your money, so unhitch, and I'll do the same."
Oh, those dreary, dark days, when we were in continual dread lest the United States Marshal should arrest my father, throw him into prison for thus assisting these fugitive slaves. The gloomy memory of those early years chills me now. But as we gazed out that dark night, we saw that it was a white man with father and who helped unhitch the horses and put them in the barn.
These constables came across a man named Berube with five horses and a wagon. His story did not sound well to them, and so they asked him to come to camp. He agreed with evident reluctance, and when he said he was hungry and his team tired, the Police told him to unhitch the team, mount one of them and come along to camp for breakfast.
But he was thinking of something else, or else wasn't much in the tracking line. Some men would see a whole army of fresh tracks, as plain as print, right under their noses and wouldn't drop down to anything. However, last of all I saw him unhitch his horse and take the bridle on his arm, and then Aileen put on her hat and walked up to the top of the ridge along the stony track with him.
"The driver may just unhitch his team, We don't want horses, we don't want steam; You may keep your old black cats to hug, But the loaded train you've got to lug." Since then on many a car you'll see A broomstick plain as plain can be; On every stick there's a witch astride, The string you see to her leg is tied.
"Yes, sir." "I guess you're made o' the right stuff," said the Doctor. "Where ye bound?" "Don't know exactly. Going to take up a claim somewhere." "There's no better country than right here. This is the Canaan of America. We need people like you. Unhitch your team and have some dinner and we'll talk things over after you're rested. I'm the doctor here and I ride all over this part o' the country.
John Marion Rains always listens to the story of prices, but his shelves are really replenished by the drummers who drive to the barn instead of the store, who unhitch their own horses and feed them from the storekeeper's supply of corn, who come into the center of the crowd only after they have unobtrusively lingered awhile in the fringe of it.
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