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I have a great mind to leave the deer on the hill, and to make the fellow send for his own carcass; but no, I will let Marmaduke tell a few bounces about it before I come out upon him. Come, hurry in, Aggy, I must help to dress the lads wound; this Yankee* doctor knows nothing of surgery I had to hold out Milligans leg for him, while he cut it off.
Now, you stare-coated, mangey, bandy-legged, misbegotten, out-law coyote, fly! fly! whoops Aggy, jumping four foot in the air, 'before I squirt enough lead into your system to make it a paying job to melt you down! "The stage driver acted according to orders.
"'Well! says Aggy in a surprised tone of voice when we got all four wheels on the ground again. 'Here we are! says he. 'Who'd have suspected it? I thought he was going to take the short cut down to the creek. "The driver turned round with one corner of his lip h'isted a dead ringer of a mean man Says he to Aggy, 'Yer a funny bloke, ain't yer?
Living where there's so few folks accounts for that, I suppose. "Getting even on our esteemed friend the stage driver was right in your Uncle Reddy's line, and Aggy and our new pard White seemed to take kindly to it, also. "If ever you saw three faces filled with innocent glee, it was when we heard the wheels of that stage coming why, the night before I was woke up by somebody laughing.
His graces were on the surface. There was no depth in him. "Aggy," he added humbly, when he should have been dominantly forceful, "it is only a question of a little time. You will get used to me." "Then," and the girl clutched at the chance of respite, "give me six months from to-day. It isn't very much to ask, Gregory." The man wrinkled his brows. "It's a great deal," he answered slowly.
"Aggy," he added humbly, when he should have been dominant and forceful, "it is only a question of a little time. You will get used to me." "Then," pleaded the girl, who clutched at the chance of respite, "give me six months from to-day. It isn't very much to ask, Gregory." Gregory wrinkled his brows. "It's a great deal," he answered slowly.
"Now, Aggy, dear," said I to her, one morning after breakfast, as we took our work and retired from the dining-room to one of the parlors, where I was occasionally in the habit of sitting, "we must sew for dear life until dinner time, so as to finish these two frocks for the children to wear this evening. It isn't right, I know, to impose on you in this way.
"Well, sir, I believe you be right, and perhaps I know summat. But it's part guessing. I believe my Agnes and Joe Harper are as fond upon one another as any two in the county." "Are they not going to be married then?" "There be the pint, sir. I don't believe Joe ever said a word o' the sort to Aggy. She never could ha' kep it from me, sir." "Why doesn't he then?" "That's the pint again, sir.
"Ay, but like all things here pelow," remarked Ian Anderson, who possessed in a high degree the faculty of disputation, "it's not likely to last long." "What makes you think so, Ian?" asked Milly, who sat in the stern of the boat between John Barret and Aggy Anderson.
'I think the sight of her would have weight with most people. When's the stage due back? "'Day after to-morrow, about noon. "'That gives us lots of time to stake, and to salt claims that can't show cause their own selves, says Aggy. 'I think we're all right. "The next day we worked like the Old Harry. We had everything fixed up right by nightfall, and there was nothing to do but dig and wait.
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