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Updated: May 12, 2025
Here's an hour to send a grandfatherly man a-groping for a keg o' powder!" A wheezy cough clos'd the sentence, as a key was with difficulty fitted in the lock. "Ugh ugh! Sure, the lock an' I be a pair, for stiff joints." The door creak'd back against me, and a shaft of light pierc'd the darkness.
"He said that's the ticket, and with him looking straight at me I slid myself into Bud's boots instead of my own, and he never noticed. They was just a shade large for me, but that was considerable better than being too small. I got my bag as I went a-groping through the hall, and in about a minute I was out the back way and stretching up the river road at a five-mile gait.
Hereupon I turned to find the little peddler sitting astride his man's neck and his fist against the fellow's nose: "Smell it, Job!" he was saying. "Smell it, lad, 'tis the fist of a man as would be a-groping for your liver if it weren't for the respect I do bear your old mother skin me else! So thank your old mother, lad, first as you've got a liver and second for a-saving o' that same liver.
And now, as I lay there under the clustered stars, my head pillowed on my deer-skin shirt, my mind fell a-groping for reason to bear me out in my strained and strange perplexity.
Come forth and shew yourselves, that I may either forgive you before I die, or curse you in the name of the Lord." He then fell a-groping with both hands on the ground, as if feeling for something he had lost manifestly in the agonies of death; and, with a solemn and interrupted prayer for forgiveness, he breathed his last.
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