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But the most parts there abouts is so sterill that there is nothing to be seene but rocks & sand, & on the high wayes but deale trees that grow most miraculously, for that earth is not to be seene than can nourish the root, & most of them trees are very bigg & high. We tooke a litle refreshment in a place called the lake of Castors, which is some 30 leagues from the first great lake.
It would be a clan gathering to which the South adherents would come riding up and down Misery and its tributaries from "nigh abouts" and "over yon." From forenoon until after midnight, shuffle, jig and fiddling would hold high, if rough, carnival. But, while the younger folk abandoned themselves to these diversions, the grayer heads would gather in more serious conclave.
"Not a pleasant place to be caught in a squall," returned the other, gazing through the voluminous clouds of smoke which he emitted at several coral reefs, whose ragged edges just rose to the level of the calm sea without breaking its mirror-like surface; "I've seen one or two fine vessels caught that way, just here abouts, and go right down in the middle of the breakers."
He'll be up in the air." He discovered the where- abouts of the young man in question, and finding him, as the youngster almost tearfully declared, "about down and out," his proposition was met with the gratitude the relief from a prospect of something extremely like starvation would mentally produce. Tembarom took him to Galton after having talked him over in detail.
And I haven't finished that pair of stockings I was knitting for you. Look here, you go and sit down till the men come back, and bathe your feet in the stream." "Did," said the boy, with a chuckle. "Ah! Where abouts? Not above where we get our drinking water?" "Course I didn't," said the boy scornfully. "I ain't a Frenchy." "Ahoy-y-y-y!"
"I placed before him the best map I possessed of the part of Africa from which I calculated he came, and explained to him the rivers and lakes marked upon it. He shook his head, as if he could make nothing of it, but at last fixed on a spot some way in the interior. "`There! he said, making a wide circle with his finger, `There abouts was my home.
He was caught, for certain: nevertheless, his wariness did not desert him. "You took me rather sudden, Mister Walter." "That's fairly evident. Maize, eh?" He scooped a few grains into his palm and sniffed at them. "Better maize than my father's, no doubt. Where's Macklin?" "Somewhere's about. I say, Mister Walter " "And Jim Burdon?" "Near abouts, too. Be you goin' to tell on me?"
But, oh, she has a mind to put me so abouts, that I'll have to go home and hang myself' 'Dash it, Miss Ruby, you ain't a going to serve a young man that way, said the baker. 'If you'll jist keep yourself to yourself, I'll be obliged to you, Mr Mixet, said Ruby. 'If you hadn't come here at all things might have been different.
And my father had a lot of names, but kep the one of his marster when he got a good home. That man was Harry Falls. He said he'd been trying to buy father for a long time, because he was the best waggoner in all that country abouts. And the man what sold him to Falls, his name was Collins, he told my father, "You so mean, I got to sell you.
Mayfield, erect and dignified, stood upon the front porch as the coach drove up. "Driver!" began Mr. Mayfield. There was no reply. "Driver," said Mr. Mayfield, slightly weakening under Bill's eye, "I shall want you no longer. I have" "Is he speaking to me?" said Bill audibly to Jeff, "'cause they call me 'Yuba Bill' yer abouts." "He is," said Jeff hastily.
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