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"Is that all the Squire said, Laban, every word?" asked Israel, and as he did so all eyes turned on Laban with a faint gleam of hope that there might yet be some crumb of comfort. Laban scratched his head. "He said suthin baout govment bein none o' our business an haow we'd a better go hum an not be loafin roun'."
I'm asking a good deal of you Abner." "Don' ye say nothin more baout it," said Abner, violently shaking the hand he still held, while he reassuringly clapped Perez on the back. "Dew ye rekullec that time tew Stillwater, when ye pulled them tew Britishers orfer me?
"Did they 'bolish the loryers?" "Wat did they dew baout more bills, Laban, hey?" "What did they dew baout the taxes?" "Why don't ye speak, man?"
"You don't mean to say there's much of that sort of slavery," ejaculated Perez. "I'd now baout slavery ezzackly, but thar's plenty o' that sort o' thing fer sartin. Credtors mosly'd ruther dew that way, caze they kin git suthin aout a feller, an ef they sen em tew jail it's a dead loss. They makes em work aout ther debt and reckons ther work tew baout wat they pleases.
"Naow what's the use'n his talkin' baout the 'wonderful mountain air, an' the 'sparklin' springs, an' er sayin' that they'll do such a sight fer Sabriny? "We know what the air is, an' fer that matter, so does she; she's allus lived here.
I judge, when he first come to Californy, 'baout six months back, he warn't acquainted none with any boys hereaway, so he took to diggin' by hisself. It was up to Cigar Bar whar he dug, and I chanst to be around there too, that's haow we got to know one another. Jim hadn't been here not a fortnight 'fore one of the boys lost 300 dollars as he'd made a cache of. Somehow suspicions fell on Jim.
"Why, yes," returned the other, with some compunction. "I don't talk much 'baout it not that it's a thing to he ashamed of; but I wouldn't give the gal a handle to think herself different from any one else hereabout.
"Oh please call me Randy, or I shall think you are a stranger, instead of an old friend." "Wal, Randy it is then, an' glad I be ter hear it. My wife said when ye went off that she knew ye, an' that Randy'd be Randy anywhere 'n she's 'baout right 's usual." Every one whom they met had a word of greeting for Randy, until she exclaimed,
"Yer right thar Isr'el," said Abner with heartiness, "I can't bear Bosting fellers no more'n I kin a skunk, and I kin tell em baout ez fer orf. I dunno wat tiz baout em, but I can't git up no more feller feelin fer em nor I kin fer Britishers. Seems though they wern't ezzackly human, though I s'pose they be, but darn em anyhaow."
"Ef ye don' go to work, Meshech, Squire Woodbridge 'll hev ye in the stocks fer gittin drunk. Deakin kin git ye put in any time he wants ter complain on ye. Ye better not rile him." But at this Meshech, instead of being impressed, burst into a loud haw haw. "Yes'dy mornin ye could a scart me outer a week's growth a talkin baout Squire, but, gol, ye'll have ter try suthen else naow.
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