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"You must allow, Sally," he said, "that it's quite a strain on a hen to keep a-layin' right along through such weather as this, and I'm only thankful they lay any. Mebby if you give them a leetle more o' that hen-food they'll do better." "I believe it," said Sally. "Why, it's wonderful, Pap. I shouldn't be a bit surprised to find 'em layin' duck eggs if I jist give 'em enough o' that stuff."
"He mought be a revenuer arter all, an' know all about me. The rest o' the raiders mought be a-waitin' an' a-layin' fur me at enny turn," he reflected. "Leastwise he knows a deal more'n he's a-goin' ter tell." He drew up his horse as they neared an open bluff where the beetling rocks jutted out like a promontory above the sea of foliage below.
'If you don't pull your freight, the branch'll get you. It's done riz over the stock of your rifle. "'Water won't hurt the wood none, says Grief. "'You Grief over thar! roars the other after awhile; 'your feet an' laigs is half into the branch, an' the water's got up to the lock of your gun. "'Thar's no load in the gun, says Grief, still a-layin', 'an' besides she needs washin' out.
"It's along late in the mornin' when the stage strikes the upper end of Apache Canyon. This yere canyon is lately reckoned some bad. Nothin' ever happens on the line, but them is the days when Cochise is cavortin' 'round plenty loose, an' it's mighty possible to stir up Apaches any time a-layin' in the hills along the trail to Tucson.
And she said, "That she wouldn't want to put it off, for it had been a-layin' round for several years, and she felt that she wouldn't go away so fur from home, and leave it onfinished." And I see that it wouldn't do any good to argy with her. Her mind wuz made up. Miss Pooler said, "That she wuz a-goin' to the Fair, and a-goin' in good season, too.
And I told him agin', puttin' in all the perticilers it needed to make the story straight and good, how Ralph S. Robinson had labored for the good of others, and how his strength had gin out, and he wuz now a-layin' at the very pint of death, and how his girl and his sister wuz a-breakin' their hearts over him, and how we had some hopes of savin' his life if he could get some sleep, that the doctors said his life depended on it, and agin I begged him to do what we asked.
I hain't got no daddy an' no mammy, an' I hain't never had none as I knows but Aunt Jane hyeh she's been jes' like a mother to me an' I'm a-doin' fer her jes' whut I wish You'd have somebody do fer my mother, ef You know whar she's a-layin'."
"Hello! why, here she is a-layin' right on the sofy," said he, in a tone of forlorn acquiescence that could never have recommended him to the footlights, especially as this remark antedated, by some anxious breathings on my part, the sheepish and bungling withdrawal of his pipe from his pocket. "Captain Pharo Kobbe," said his wife, regarding him, "ain't you a smart one!"
And then I wuz a-layin' out to have some nice mashed-up potatoes, some early sweet peas, some lemon puddin', besides some coffee, jest as Thomas J. likes it rich, golden coffee, with plenty of cream in it; and then besides I wuz goin' to have one or two vegetables that Josiah liked, and some jellys, etc., that Krit wuz particular fond of.
He turned to the girl, who had drawn back a little behind him. "Judy," he said, kindly, "I think perhaps you better tell me about this." "Pap, he was a-layin' for me in the bresh 'cause he dassn't come to the house ter git me," said the girl, fearfully. "But, why does he fear to come to the house?" persisted Brian. "'Cause he done give me ter Auntie Sue."
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