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A "hell" or "slick" or "woolly-head" or "yaller patch" is a thicket of laurel or rhododendron, impassable save where the bears have bored out trails. The qualities of the raw backwoodsmen are printed from untouched negatives in the names he has left upon the map.
He got the woolly-head by the middle, and away he went, the poor devil, head, shoulders, and arms out of the water all the time, screeching in a heart-rending way. He was carried along in this fashion for several hundred feet, when he was dragged beneath the surface. I swam doggedly on, hoping that that was the last unattached shark. But there was another.
When I'm on de one side de jump-high is on de oder; and if I go back widout one he'll cuss me for a d d stumbling woolly-head. Dat's his name for me any way. I knew his Master was as bad off as myself, and would ask no questions, and then I sneaked up in rear of the General's quarters." "That's what I'd call Profane History," said the Lieutenant, as the Captain resumed his load. "Well, boys!
Freckle could see the old man now, with a tear poised on his tangled eyelashes, asking a farewell benediction from the front portico, upon himself departing, while every woolly-head was uncovered, and the whole assembled "property" had groaned "Amen" together. That was patriarchal life; what was this? Freckle thought this much finer and higher. He had not asked himself if it was better.
He got the woolly-head by the middle, and away he went, the poor devil, head, shoulders, and arms out of water all the time, screeching in a heartrending way. He was carried along in this fashion for several hundred feet, when he was dragged beneath the surface. I swam doggedly on, hoping that that was the last unattached shark. But there was another.
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