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Updated: May 11, 2025
We kept smacking our lips and rubbing our vests to show we was enjoying everything, and the old gal kept bobbing her head and grinning like one of them dummies you wind up with a key. "'Well, says Hammond, 'we've got a cook at last. Ain't we, old old Blimed if we've got a name for 'er yet! Here! says he, pointing to me. 'Looky here, missis! 'Edge! 'Edge! that's 'im! 'Ammond! 'Ammond! that's me.
First she comes up to me and taps me on the chest and says, ''Edge. Then she goes creeping round the room on tiptoe, p'inting out of the winder all the time as much as to say she was pertending to walk through the woods. Then she p'ints to one of the stumps we used for chairs and screeches 'AMMOND! and fetches the stump an awful bang with the club.
I fell in with a Britisher named Hammond, 'Ammond, he called it, and as he was on the same hunt that I was, we kept each other comp'ny. We done odd jobs now 'n' again, and slept in sailors' lodging houses when we had the price, and under bridges or on hemp bales when we hadn't. I was too proud to write home for money, and Hammond didn't have no home to write to, I cal'late.
"'Now, Lobelia 'Ankins, says I, 'put down that and be sociable, there's a good girl. "'Course I knew she couldn't understand me, but I was whistling to keep my courage up, as the saying is. "''Ammond! says she, p'inting toward the woods. "'Yes, says I, 'Hammond's taking a walk for his health. "''Ammond! says she, louder, and shaking the stick.
"''Ammond! says she. "'Now, Miss 'Ankins, d-o-n't be hasty, I "Well, I backed faster and faster, and she follered me right up till at last I begun to run. Round and round the place we went, me scart for my life and she fairly frothing with rage. Finally I bust through the door and put for the woods at a rate that beat Hammond's going all holler.
"'Now, Lobelia, says I, smiling smooth as butter, 'do put down that club! "''AMMOND! she fairly hollers. Then she went through the most blood-curdling pantomime ever was, I reckon.
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