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W'en Brer Tarrypin fine de place he wanter, he tuck one een er de bed-cord, en gun de yuther een' to Brer B'ar. "'Now den, ladies en gents, sez Brer Tarrypin, sezee, 'you all go wid Brer B'ar up dar in de woods en I'll stay yer, en w'en you year me holler, den's de time fer Brer B'ar fer ter see ef he kin haul in de slack er de rope.
"I ain't scairt o' no man, and ye know it's well's ye wanter know. I'd go in a jiffey, only bein a young man, I don' like tew put myself forrard tew speak for them as is older." "Why don' ye go yerself, Peleg, if ye be so dretful brave!" inquired Israel Goodrich. "That's so, Peleg, why don' ye go?" "I ain't no talker," said Peleg. "Ther's Ezry, he'd orter go, he's sech a good talker."
"I thort it time to wake you up," she went on, "an' besides I wanter talk to you about my babies. "You'll onderstan' all that when you see the home I've bought for us" she said simply. "We're gwine to it now. Git in the buggy" and she helped him to arise.
"Most things is high in Millville," he faltered, "an' wages has gone up jest terr'ble. The boys don't seem to wanter do nuthin' without big pay." "That is the case everywhere," responded Mr. Merrick, thoughtfully; "and between us, McNutt, I'm glad wages are better in these prosperous times. The man who works by the day should be well paid, for he has to pay well for his living.
Especially the brand of law that's handed a feller by your man, Keller. But I don't know nothing about the boy nor where he's gone. I don't wanter know, either. "And none of they rest o' you wanter harbor that thief," snarled Blent, viciously, looking around at the gaping hired men and the boys who had come to visit Cliff Island. "The law's got a long arm. 'Member that!"
"But it looks like the kid ain't got no appetite to git well, for they misses him from the tent in the night and finds him rootin' in the grass, and likewise a drizzle fallin'. 'G'wan, he says, 'lemme go and die like I wanter. He said I was a liar and a fake and I was playin' sick. Lemme alone. "Two weeks," went on the cook, "he laid around, not noticin' nobody, and then "
"Durn yur name!" exclaimed the giant, interrupting me; "I don't care a dog-gone for yur name: tell me yur bizness that's what I wanter know." "I have already told you my business: I wish to see Mr Holt Hick Holt, if you like." "To see Hick Holt? Wal, ef that's all yur bizness, you've seed him; an' now ye kin go."
The bright eyes of Phoebe, fastened upon him, turned dim with a faint moisture, and her pale cheek took upon itself a little color. The mother, after interjecting "Du tell," and "I wanter know," remained open-mouthed, staring at her visitor. And in the silence that followed, a pleasant, but somewhat melancholy voice came from the open door.
For even as the gun was lifted, at the very second that Fletcher's heavy body swung into view, he heard a crackling in the dead bushes at his back, and Uncle Boaz struck up his arm with a palsied hand. "Gawd alive, honey, you don' wanter be tucken out an' hunged?" the old man cried in terror. The boy rose in a passion and flung his useless gun aside.
"Celia was nigh about crazy to see that picter run off. She was in it, too. Of course, a big drama like that wouldn't come to the Corner, and I shouldn't wonder if that's what took 'em both to the city, first of all. Still," he added, "I reckon they wanter be actorines, too." Bess suppressed a giggle at that, for Si Snubbins was funny, whether intentionally so or not.
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