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"An' ef he is a sheep," added Mason, "he's so hidebound an' so fleece-growed, an' hez been herdin' with the goats in the devil's pastur' so long, thet he hain't wuth fotchin' home to the fold." As soon as the fall wheat-sowing was finished, Abner Dudley resumed his school, but under such changed conditions that he could not feel the same enthusiastic interest as during the previous term.
Abner himself opened the door and he looked rather embarrassed when he saw the pair on the steps. Captain Shad did not wait for an invitation to enter; he walked in and Mary-'Gusta followed him. "Now then, Ab," said the Captain, briskly, "what's this about our cat stealin' your chickens?" Mr. Bacheldor and Con, separately and together, burst into a tirade of invective against the offending David.
'You won't want me and her to sit on the back seat, and it wouldn't look jes right for you an' her to be in front, and me behind all by myself, as if I was company. "'Don't know, said Captain Abner. 'We'll get her fust, and then let her sit where she wants to. "'There's one thing I wouldn't like to see, said Sam Twitty, 'and that's you and me sittin' behind, and her a-drivin'.
"Not many Christians have the good sense and the good heart of Arthur Abner. Now go and eat. Come back to me when you've done. I hope you are hungry. Ask the butler for the wine you prefer." She had not anticipated the enrolment in her household of a man so young and good-looking.
"In a way, yes," he answered. "Quite beautiful." "What do you mean, 'In a way'?" demanded Ann with some asperity. "It was a spiritual beauty, your mother's," Abner explained. "The soul looking out of her eyes. I don't think it possible to imagine a more beautiful disposition than your mother's.
Herbert surveyed the viands with satisfaction, having a decidedly good appetite. He soon found, however, that hungry as he was, he stood a poor chance with Abner Holden; that gentleman, being a very rapid eater, managed to appropriate two-thirds of the beefsteak and three-quarters of the pie.
"Abner Holden," said Ralph, "I know you, and I know you are not to be trusted. I have resolved to help this boy to escape from you, and I mean to do it effectually. For this purpose, I must subject you to temporary inconvenience. I advise you not to resist."
"Come in, come in, Abner," he said, bluffly, and he led the way into his office. A square table covered with green baize stood in the centre of the room. A box filled with sawdust sat upon the floor to serve as a cuspidor; three or four splint-bottomed chairs completed the office furniture.
Abner Nott sat before a table seriously engaged with his accounts. For it was "steamer night," as that momentous day of reckoning before the sailing of the regular mail steamer was briefly known to commercial San Francisco, and Mr. Nott was subject at such times to severely practical relapses.
Cod and haddock, together with a few cusk and pollock, are taken here in June, July, and August and even into the late fall, but it is mainly a hake fishing ground for small boats and an occasional larger craft, all using hand line and trawl. It is a good lobster ground. Abner Ground. This ground is SSE. from Gott's Island, distant 8 miles.
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