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"Well, Faust is wise to somethin' he stands in with Langdon, an' I suppose they think they've got a cinch in The Dutchman. Yes, that must be it," he added, reflectively; "they made a killin' over Diablo, an' likely they got a good line on The Dutchman through him in a trial. But a three-year-old mare that runs as prominent in the big Handicap as Lucretia did, will take a lot of beatin.
"If yer laughin' at ther idea o' Hatrack beatin' ther magpie hoss, don't yer do it, fer thet's showin' ignerance o' hossflesh, an' I thought yer wuz too well brought up at Moon Valley ter think thet pretty spots on a hoss hez anythin' ter do with his ability ter make a race er hold a cow."
"I reckon there ain't many crazier than them two Bowlders, father and son," said the postmaster, wiping the drops from his beard as he set his glass on the bar. "They rid into town like a couple of wild Indians, the old man beatin' that gray mare o' theirn till she was one big welt, and he ain't natcherly no cruel man, either. I reckon Lige Willetts better keep out of Hartley's way."
Did she take her out o' the sea, as raged like all the devils let loose, and death itself a-hangin' round and fairly howlin' for that child? did she stand on that rock, blind and deef and e'ena'most mazed with the beatin' and roarin' and onearthly screechin' all round, and take that child from its dead mother's breast, and vow to the Lord, as helped in savin' it, to do as should be done by it?
Y' understand me, Dick? Richard was not entirely at his ease in listening. He tried to smile, but failed to smile naturally. 'I don't see what you found wrong, he returned, abruptly. 'Why, I'm a-tellin' you, my boy, I didn't find nothing wrong except in myself, as you may say. What's the good o' beatin' about the bush? It's just this 'ere, Dick, my lad.
Wall, the years passed an' my daddy an' my oldest brother was a workin' in that same field, a raisin' of his co'n an' a makin' of his licker an' mind you the gover'ment never had opened its chops, fur it was good licker an' all at once jest like years befo' there came a beatin' of drums an' a blowin' of fifes over in the road.
"That's vary likely," answered the sailor, "but they're only men, and we 'ave a chance of beatin' 'em. We may fight with men and conquer 'em, an' we may fight with water an' conquer that, but when we fight against no water that will conquer us. Natur is sure to win." "Bill's right there," said Terence, "and I feel that Nature is getting the best of me already."
An' I thought I thought " Unwonted hesitations disturbed Evangeline's smooth flow of speech. She sat down suddenly. "I guess I can say it easier sittin' than I could standin'. It's some hard to say it's so kind of bareheaded. But I don't know what else to do. You see, Stefana'd hear me beatin' the eggs an' stirrin', if I did 'em at home.
He just stood crouching over in the shadow while they headed for him, devil-dragon an' all. I wanted to crawl into the cellar alone, but I lacked just one grain of havin' moral courage enough, so I stood still with my knees beatin' together, watchin' 'em come.
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