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Updated: May 15, 2025
As soon as I got my legs an' wits again I was up on deck, and already the barque was settlin' by the head like a burst crock. She'd crushed her breastbone in on a sunken tramp of a derelict a dismasted water-logged lump, that maybe had been washin' about the Atlantic for twenty year' an' more before her app'inted time came to drift across our fair-way an' settle the hash o' the John S. Hancock.
"Grieve not, Hetty," he said, for it was while consoling this simple-minded girl for the loss of her parents that he thus betrayed his feelings, "since God has app'inted that all must die. Your parents, or them you fancied your parents, which is the same thing, have gone afore you; this is only in the order of natur', my good gal, for the aged go first, and the young follow.
He took one long look at Jethro and bent over and slapped his hand on his knee, and burst out laughing. "So here you be!" he cried. "By Godfrey! ef you don't beat all outdoors, Jethro. Wal, I got ahead of ye for once, but you can't say I didn't warn ye. Come purty nigh bustin' the stage on that road today, and now I'm a-goin' to hev an agent app'inted." "W-who's the agent?" said Jethro.
Let's go up and see what Judge Graves says about it." "Hold on," said Mr. Dodd, seizing the feed dealer by the coat, "we've got to get it fixed in our minds what we're goin' to do, first. We can't allow no notorious people in our schools. We've got to stand up to the jedge, and tell him so. We app'inted her on his recommendation, you know." "I like the girl," replied Mr. Hill.
Let's go up and see what Judge Graves says about it." "Hold on," said Mr. Dodd, seizing the feed dealer by the coat, "we've got to get it fixed in our minds what we're goin' to do, first. We can't allow no notorious people in our schools. We've got to stand up to the jedge, and tell him so. We app'inted her on his recommendation, you know." "I like the girl," replied Mr. Hill.
And, on top of that, that he's goin' to ask that a committee be app'inted fur you in other words, that somebody or other shall be named by the court, meanin' me, to take charge of your property and control the spendin' of it frum now on?" "Yes, suh," stated O'Day. "Pete Gafford he set down with me and made hit all clear to me, yestiddy evenin', after they'd done served the papers on me."
"Well," he continued in his judicial manner, "the court has got to appoint an agent to repair that road, the agent will present the bill, and the town will have to pay the bill whatever it is. It's too bad, Jethro, that you have allowed this to be done." "You say you've got to app'int an agent?" "Yes I'm sorry " "Have you app'inted one?" "No." "G-got any candidates?" The judge scratched his head.
Yer see, dar wuz two men, both claimed ter be sheriff o' dat parish. Dat was let me see, dat was jes de tenth yeah atter de S'render, fo' years alter I left h'yer. One on 'em, ez near ez I could make out, was app'inted by de Guv'ner, an' t'odder by a man dat claimed ter be Guv'ner.
"This night," said the graybeard from out the chimney corner, "this night, forty years ago, my brother, Ephraim Grimes, fell dead on this cabin floor, an' no man sence kin mark the cause." A pause ensued. The rain fell. The pallid, shuddering mists looked in at the window. "Ye ain't a-thinkin'," cried the woman tremulously, "ez the night air one app'inted fur evil?" The old man did not answer.
"Well," he continued in his judicial manner, "the court has got to appoint an agent to repair that road, the agent will present the bill, and the town will have to pay the bill whatever it is. It's too bad, Jethro, that you have allowed this to be done." "You say you've got to app'int an agent?" "Yes I'm sorry " "Have you app'inted one?" "No." "G-got any candidates?" The judge scratched his head.
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