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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Back thar in ther beginnin's, Cal," she said, clinging to the name by which she had first known him, "our foreparents planted this tree an' founded this country an' held hit erginst ther Injuns. They was leaders then afore any man hed ever heered of Cappers an' Squireses an' ther like.
"But, as friend Heman says, the beginnin's only begun. I wish he hadn't seen you here, teacher." Miss Dawes looked up from the task of stroking poor Bos'n's hair. "I don't," she said, "I'm glad of it." Then she added, laughing nervously: "Cap'n Whittaker, how could you be so cool? It was like a play. I declare, you were just splendid!"
"Oh, nothin', nothin'. Only your sayin' we'd only begun reminded me of of other things. I don't suppose I'll ever hear 'only begun' without shiverin'. Humph! there's some kind of beginnin's I hope I'll never hear of again. Gertie been in this mornin', has she? She isn't in the house." "No, I saw her go down street a little while ago. Gone for her morning walk, perhaps. How is Mrs. Dott to-day?"
It's about six years followin' on the Mexican war, an' I'm shot up'ards into the semblances of a man. My affections for Polly has their beginnin's in a coon-hunt into which b'ars an' dogs gets commingled in painful profoosion. "'I ain't the wonder of a week with a rifle now, since I'm old an' dim, but them times on the Cumberland I has fame as sech.
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