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Updated: June 10, 2025
Wal, I'll be switched if she isn't comin' daown ter the bars naow. Wonder what's up?" "Jabez! Jabez! Ja bez!" "All right, I'll be there," was the answer, but in an aside he remarked apparently to the horses, "'F I git my courage up, I'll tell her 'baout Sabriny naow and be done with it;" but his bravery was not put to the test.
"Makes me think of the time when I was a little feller ter hum, and had two sisters jest 'baout the size of Square Weston's girls." Then, with a sigh, the man went on up the road, but the memory of the family group in the brightly lighted room remained in his mind for many a day. At one side of the table with its bright cloth smoothly spread, sat Mr.
He's goin tew York an he don' keer no more baout yew nor the dirt unner his feet. He ez good's tole me so." "Thar comes Abner Rathbun," said some one in the group around Perez. With heavy eyes, testifying to his debauch over night, and a generally crestfallen appearance, the giant was approaching from the tavern, where he had presumably been bracing up with a little morning flip.
Souns like ez if it wuz a hailin ontew a lot o' milk pans. I never suspicioned ez I should live tew hear sech a n'ise." "I guess Peleg's baout right," said Abner. "Thar won't be no show fer poor folks, 'nless they is a law agin' sendin money aouter the kentry."
There was war between the man and the boy ever since Dan had discovered that the mere whistling of that tune would make him angry as he heaved the lead. "Thought I'd fetch yer," said Dan, returning the gift with precision. "Ef you don't like my music, git out your fiddle. I ain't goin' to lie here all day an' listen to you an' Long Jack arguin' 'baout candles.
"I dunno nothin baout the res' on ye, but I hain't done nothin I'm shamed on." And Israel Goodrich, too, said: "Ef he's gonter go ter pardinin us for lettin them poor dyin critters outer jail tew Barrington t'other day, he's jess got the shoe onter the wrong foot. It's them as put em in needs the pardinin cordin tew my noshin." "An I guess we don' want no pardon fer stoppin courts nuther.
They're so's to be ruther dead an' flat an' salt. There's a hundred hogshead o' salt in the bins, an' we hain't more'n covered our dunnage to now." "Where are the fish, though?" "'In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb. "You come in last night with 'baout forty of 'em." He pointed to a sort of wooden pen just in front of the quarter-deck.
"Ef it's paper bills as ye're a talkin baout," said Abner grimly, "I've got quite a slew on em tew hum, mebbe a peck or tew. I got em fer pay in the army. They're tew greasy tew kindle a fire with, an I dunno o' nothin else ez they're good for. Ye're welcome to em, Ezry.
"Right you are," said Roy. "How did you guess?" "Ye got a pooty smart walk afore ye," the man said, dubiously. "Well, we're pretty smart boys," said Roy. "Break it to us gently, and let us hear the worst." "Baout five mile 'f ye take th' hill rud." "Gracious, goodness me!" said Roy, "are they all the same length?" "Haouw?" "The miles; lads, I'm just reckless enough to do it."
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