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No man can say Ben Marston was ever back'ard in that way; and never will be, that's more. No! them as trod on me felt my teeth some day or other. Eh, old man? Crib growled. He understood things regular like a Christian, that old dog did.
"Nate, I saw you didn't try to hit pa when you had the stick and was right over him, but you'll own up you was awful mad?" "Yes, I was: and for the first minute I was murderin' mad, 'count o' you. I'll own that. But, you seen when I got it under me and was leadin' him off peaceable, didn't you? I slipp'd back'ard and flung up my arms, and then the thing struck wrong.
"Well, upon my " Anthony checked his exclamation, returning to the charge with, "Just suppose, for the sake of supposing supposing she was a fool, and gone and got married, and you thrown back'ard on one leg, starin' at the other, stupified-like?" "I don't mind supposing it," said Robert. "Say, she's a fool. Her being a fool argues that I was one in making a fool's choice.
"You, turned fifteen year old, and been back'ard and forrud 'twixt Hardway and the Gosport shore for a matter of five years or more, and not for to know and read a common signal like that, which you must 'a seed run up at the semaphore or on board the Dook a hundred times at least. Lor'! I'm jest 'shamed of you, that's what I be!"
"Well, upon my " Anthony checked his exclamation, returning to the charge with, "Just suppose, for the sake of supposing supposing she was a fool, and gone and got married, and you thrown back'ard on one leg, starin' at the other, stupified-like?" "I don't mind supposing it," said Robert. "Say, she's a fool. Her being a fool argues that I was one in making a fool's choice.
As a gent goes onder the rope he grabs for the gander's head; an' that party who's expert enough to bring it away in his hand, wins the hat full of two-bit pieces yeretofore deescribed. "Which, of course, no gent succeeds the first dash outen the box, as a gander's head is on some good and strong; an' many a saddle gets emptied by virchoo of the back'ard yanks a party gets.
"What's Rocky up an' do? He goes downside of log, reaches over with his knife, an' begins slashin'. But he can only reach bear's rump, an' dawgs bein' ruined fast, one-two-three time. Rocky gets desperate. He don't like to lose his dawgs. He jumps on top log, grabs bear by the slack of the rump, an' heaves over back'ard right over top of that log.
D'you see um, Massa Brace? movin' 'bout all ober it I see 'um plain as de sun in de hebbens! Scores o' people a'gwine about back'ard an' forrads. See yonner!"
"Well," said Gaff, knitting his heavy brows, and assuming altogether a learned aspect, "it's a one that you can't make head nor tail of nohow; one as'll read a'rnost as well back'ard as for'ard, an' yet has got a smack o' somethin' mysterious in it, w'ich shows, so to speak, to what pint o' the compass your steerin' for d'ye see?"
To my wonder I don't turn no flip-flap, but performs like a draw-shot in billiards. I plants my moccasins on the springboard; an' then instead of goin' on an' over a cayouse who's standin' thar awaitin' sech events, I shoots back'ard about fifteen foot an' lands in a ondistinguishable heap. An' as I strikes a plank it smashes a brace of my ribs. "'For a second I'm blurred in my intellects.
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