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Updated: July 10, 2025
"'Why not send it down the flume? asts Jess, timid-like. I could see she was jest crazy about gittin' it. "'Oh, the flume is old, an' it's rotten in places, an' such a heavy load might go through. "'Why, it holds up the grub-boat all right, says Jess 'Oh, if I could only have that pianner down here! I can play a little already, an' I'd l'arn a lot. I'd practise eight hours a day.
I slowed down when I got to the schoolhouse, and both them fellers piled in. "I guess I better turn north fur about a mile and then turn west, Doctor Kirby," I says, "so as to make a kind of a circle around that town." "Why, so, Rube?" he asts me. "Well," I says, "we left it going east, and they'll foller us east; so don't we want to be going west while they're follering east?"
Fer four nights now they'd seen him, wrapped in a blue robe, waitin' an' a-huntin' behind tombstones an' walkin' round an' round the graveyard lie a six days' race fer the belt at Madison Square. John had jus' seen him on the wall, an' that was why he come chargin' down the road like forty cats. "'Will Mr. Ming's sperrit walk till he gits that button back? Buck asts. John says: 'Sure.
The next day he is asleep all morning. But that day he don't drink any more, and Looey says mebby it ain't going to be one of the reg'lar pifflicated kind. I seen Martha agin that day, too twicet I has talks with her. I told her about the doctor. "Is he into a quest, do you think?" I asts her. She says she thinks it is remorse fur some crime he has done.
But the kick was already started into the air, and when he turns he can't stop it. And so Hank gets twisted and falls down and steps on himself. That basket lets out a yowl. "It's kittens," says Hank, still setting down and staring at that there basket. All of which, you understand, I am a-telling you from hearsay, as the lawyers always asts you in court. Elmira, she sings out: "Kittens, nothing!
He's goin' be wid you heart an' soul an' Flyin' Jinny. All he asts, through me, is that he kin have the right to set her up on the purtic'lar spot w'ich he's got in mind out there on them show-ground lots.
It wasn't until Colonel Tom Buckner called him "Dave" and ast him about his sister that I seen who Doctor Kirby must really be. And the brother of the girl he had run off with had jest saved his life. By the way he was talking, he had saved it simply because he thought he had the first call on what to do with it. "Where is she?" asts Colonel Tom.
"I don't think they be, Danny," says Jake, confidential. "In my opinion they is mighty bad customers. But they has got on the wrong side of the law now, and I guess they won't stay around here much longer." "Well," says I, "Hank will be glad." "Fur what?" asts Jake. "Well," says I, "because he got his pay in advance fur that job and now he don't have to finish it.
But do you suppose I have learned enough so that we can make a go of it if we start all over again?" But Jane she never said nothing. "Jane," he says, "Estelle is going back to New England, as soon as Margery gets well, and she will stay there for good." Jane, she begins to take a little intrust then. "Did Estelle tell you so?" she asts. "No," says the perfessor. "Estelle doesn't know it yet.
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