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Updated: May 26, 2025
An old friend of mine, Joe Granger, act'lly forgot how it tasted. I gave him a glass once by way of a joke, and he said it was the weakest gin he ever tasted." "Are there no temperance societies out here?" asked Ben. The miner laughed. "It's my belief that a temperance lecturer would be mobbed, or hung to the nearest lamppost," he answered.
Why, when he was act'lly dyin', so fur gone 't he couldn' speak plain, he called me to him, an' made signs he wanted to tell me somethin'. I stooped down clost, an' he whispered somethin'; but all I could hear was 'di'monds, and 'dig, and then in a minute 'twas all over. Poor old Father! He'd been a good skipper, an' a good man all his days."
After that as I thought, for nothing but frolic he even let 'em load and train the gun for us, and only lifted his musket when the gunner a dark-faced fellow with a red cap on his head was act'lly walking up with the match alight in his linstock.
"You baint goin' to tell me," said Susannah, "that you act'lly mean to take and trapse to Plymouth in all this heat?" "I do," said Barbree. "Get me my shawl and bonnet." "What, on a Saturday afternoon! And me left single-handed to tend the customers!" "Drat the customers!" said Aunt Barbree. "And drat everything, includin' the boy, if you like! But fetch to Plymouth I must and will.
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