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"No Creek" Lee had come into his own at last, and was a hero, for the story of his long ill-luck was common gossip now, and men praised him for his courage. He had never been praised for anything before and was uncertain just how to take it. "Say, are these people kiddin' me?" he inquired, confidentially, of Poleon. "W'y? Wat you mean?"
"Well, that's very far south. We suffer yes, we suffer, but our poor poultry suffer more." "Ze ze pooltree? Wat eez zat?" Clifford explained. "In summer the fire engines are detailed to throw water on the hens to keep their feathers from singeing. Singeing spoils the flavor." The Frenchman growled.
Few had escaped; the rest would never see Mercury again. "We've won," Joan sighed happily, after it was all over, and was able to nestle once more comfortably in Hilary's arms. "Thanks to you." "You forget Grim Morgan and Wat Tyler, dear." "Ye-es, they helped, too," she admitted grudgingly; "but without you, what could they have done?"
"Lemme see wat yer got," said Aunt Edy; and they spread out on the table garments of worsted and silk and muslin and lace and tarlatan and calico and homespun, just whatever their little hands had been able to gather up.
"When he first caught sight of them the hounds were standing in a half-circle round this bramble patch, with their backs bristling and their jaws gaping. In front of the brambles lay one of them with his throat torn out, all crimson and white-and-tan. Wat came running out into the clearing, and at the sight of him the hounds took heart again, and one of them sprang with a growl into the bushes.
"Wat muz be, muz be," the gypsy answered, shrugging his shoulders as if in the presence of an inexorable fate, and added: "Ze brice iz zwo hunner and viftee dollars, wiz ze mare drown een." Putting his pistol back into his pocket with an air of triumph, the doctor said: "There seems to be persuasive power in cold lead. Stretch forth your palm and I will cross it for you."
Well she picked dat thing up en started off wid hit en hit made her feel creepy all ober en dat night her baby war born a gal child en de print of er big hog-liver war standing out all ober one side of her face. Dat side of her face is all blue er purplish en jes the shape of a liver. En hits still dar. "I'se grannied ober three hundred chilluns en I noes wat I'se talking about. "Hee! Hee! Hee!
The old man fingered them lovingly and with careful touch, until he found the one he sought. It was a somewhat long document, written on blue, official-looking paper, and attested by several seals. He read it from beginning to end with close attention, and gave a grunt of satisfaction when he laid it down. 'Is Wat busy? he asked then. 'He has not much heart for his work to-day, uncle,
Then Adam and Eve laughed just so" grinning wonderfully "and said, 'Go home, bad, ugly child, with a back on! Then Angy pulled flowers and gave Ernie!" "It is only the little gal next door I means de young lady ob de 'stablishment, wat de poor, foolish, humped-shouldered baby talking about," Dinah explained.
Such was Walter, or, as he was there more familiarly termed Wat Munro. He took his seat with the company, with the ease of one who neither doubted nor deliberated upon the footing which he claimed among them. He was not merely the publican of his profession, but better fitted indeed for perhaps any other avocation, as may possibly be discovered in the progress of our narrative.
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