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"Wher' is she?" "She's under that red willow yonder." The girl's voice was low. Her words were little more than a whisper. "Is she hurt?" "She's dead." At that moment Bud reappeared bearing a hat full clear river water. Nan looked up. "How can we give it him?" she questioned. Somehow the importance of the water had lessened in her mind. Jeff answered the question himself.
And that letter was all they could get him to put a pen to." "Why do you reckon Harvey don't come? Wher' does he live?" "Oh, he lives in England Sheffield preaches there hasn't ever been in this country. He hasn't had any too much time and besides he mightn't a got the letter at all, you know." "Too bad, too bad he couldn't a lived to see his brothers, poor soul. You going to Orleans, you say?"
So then she kissed me, and patted me on the head, and dropped into a kind of a brown study; and pretty soon jumps up, and says: "Why, lawsamercy, it's most night, and Sid not come yet! What HAS become of that boy?" I see my chance; so I skips up and says: "I'll run right up to town and get him," I says. "No you won't," she says. "You'll stay right wher' you are; ONE'S enough to be lost at a time.
"Run her nose in shore," says the king. I done it. "Wher' you bound for, young man?" "For the steamboat; going to Orleans." "Git aboard," says the king. "Hold on a minute, my servant 'll he'p you with them bags. Jump out and he'p the gentleman, Adolphus" meaning me, I see. I done so, and then we all three started on again.
Well, that very night he rolled off'n a shed wher' he was a layin drunk, and broke his arm." "Why, that's awful. How did he know she was a-witching him?" "Lord, pap can tell, easy. Pap says when they keep looking at you right stiddy, they're a-witching you. Specially if they mumble. Becuz when they mumble they're saying the Lord's Prayer backards." "Say, Hucky, when you going to try the cat?"
The president lost no time in proceeding with the business in hand. He addressed his friends generally. "I ain't goin' to say a word 'bout the elegant information gathered by our bright junior member," he said slowly. "You've all heard it, an' I guess that's sure all that's needed. Wher' he got it, is his funeral or should be.
Adah could not repress a smile, but she was too much interested to interrupt him, and he went on: "They all think heap of Miss Ellis, and I hear de blacks tellin' how she berry rich, and comed from way off thar wher white niggers live Masser-something." "Massachusetts?" suggested Adah. "Yes; that's the very mas'r, I 'member dat." "Was Ellis her first or last name?"
So he bid them be of good cheere & row lustly, for ther was a faire sound before them, & he doubted not but they should find one place or other wher they might ride in saftie. And though it was very darke, and rained sore, yet in y^e end they gott under y^e lee of a smalle iland, and remained ther all y^t night saftie.
"Guess I'll get on then," he said in the dogged tone of a man who has made up his mind to an unpleasant task. But Bill had no intention of letting him go yet. He sat back in his seat, his hand holding his reins loosely in his lap. "That wher' your prospect is?" he inquired casually. Scipio nodded. He could not bring himself to frame any further aggravation of the lie.
If they please the eye, they ain't like to hit the ear-drums so bad. Wimmin is cur'us that aways." "Mebbe," agreed Rust, bowing to the butcher's superior knowledge. "But I guess it must 'a' cost a heap o' dollars. Say, Will must 'a' got it rich. I'd like to savvee wher'," he added, with a sigh, as they thoughtfully returned to the bar. But nobody paid any attention to the blacksmith's regrets.
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