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Markland left her husband's side, she stepped from the house, carrying a small basket in one hand, and leading a child, some six or seven years old, with the other. "Are you going over to see Mrs. Elder?" asked the child, as they moved down the smoothly-graded walk. "Yes, dear," was answered. "I don't like to go there," said the child. "Why not, Aggy." The mother's voice was slightly serious.
"How hard you are on a fellow, Cousin Milly," grumbled the youngster, rising to do as he was bid; but the expression of his jammy face showed that he was no unwilling slave. "How old are you, Aggy?" asked Milly when he was gone. "Sixteen last birthday," returned the girl.
I should like to draw a veil over the next two weeks, but it would have to be a pretty strong veil to hold it. I tried to keep level with Aggy, but he'd spend three dollars to my one, and the consequence of that was that we went broke within fifteen minutes of each other. "Well, sir, we were a mournful pair to draw to that day.
He heard Aggy with great attention, and then remarked: Well, if the lad has not been spoiled by the people in Templeton he may be a modest young man, and, as he certainly meant well, I shall take some notice of him perhaps he is land-hunting I say, Aggy, maybe he is out hunting?
Hotel-man said it was up-sticks now, and he meant to pay his just debts like an honest man, and that made four drinks, then Jones said well, by this time I see I needn't have hurried breakfast so much. More people came in. I woke up the next morning in the same old bedroom. Every breakfast Aggy and me got ready to pull for the mines, and every morning I woke up in the bedroom.
The instant the sounds reached the ear of the gentleman he cried aloud to the black: Hol up, Aggy; there is old Hector; I should know his bay among ten thousand! The Leather-Stocking has put his hounds into the hills this clear day, and they have started their game.
"Why, Aggy, dear! as if I could dream for a moment of any pleasure in which you had not a share!" So earnestly and tenderly was this said, that Mrs. Markland felt a thrill of joy tremble over her heart-strings. And yet, for all, she could not keep back the overflowing tears, but hid her face, to conceal them, on her husband's bosom. Her true feelings Mr.
"'Oh, I ain't so much, says Aggy, 'although I'm as good a man to-day as ever I was in my life but I have a little friend here who can rope, down, and ride that critter from here to the brick-front in five minutes by the watch; and if you've got a twenty-five dollar bill in your pocket, or its equivalent in dust, you can observe the experiment.
"Go to bed, Podge!" said Agnes, as the clock in the engine-house struck midnight. "Oblige me, my dear! I cannot sleep, and shall wait and watch. Perhaps Andrew will be here." "I can't leave you up, Aggy, and with that thing so near." She locked toward the front parlor, where, behind the folding-doors, lay the dead. "I have no fear of that. He was always kind to me. My fears are all in this world.
"Come along, Aggy," said her liege lord resignedly. "Let's have a look about the place." Mr. Saunders met them at the grand entrance. He announced that four of the native servants had been found, dead drunk, in the wine cellar. "They can't move, sir. We thought they were dead." "Keep 'em in that condition, for the good Lord's sake," exclaimed Deppingham.
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