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Updated: June 6, 2025
Us saw th' doctor about twenty minutes afore us got t' un. 'E was wavin' 'is flag an' I seen 'im. 'E was on a pan no bigger'n this flor, an' I dunno what ever kep' un fro' goin' abroad, for 'twasn't ice, 'twas packed snow. Th' pan was away from even th' slob, floatin' by hisself, an' th' open water all roun', an' 'twas just across fro' Goose Cove, an' outside o' that there'd been no hope.
"So are the white men my brothers." The chief's head dropped forward. Wilson, ashamed of his boasting, put the rifle back on the wall. "I'm not here to fight. You can kill me any time. You could 'a' killed me to-night, but it wouldn't do any good. It 'ud only make it worse for you. Why, they'll be a town in here bigger'n all your tribe before two grass from now.
Katy ain't no bigger'n Monty, nor so big, an' a hole he can get into she can come out of. Trust her!" Miss Maitland would not go indoors, but she did fold the shawl she had caught up more closely about her and retreated to the shelter of the cowshed, while Susanna stood listening beneath the window through which Monty had swiftly disappeared.
There ain't no earthly doubt 'bout your gettin' the nomination. Harrison may give old Colonel Harrison its vote on the first ballot, just as a compliment, you know; and I'll admit that down Hall City way there's some talk of Sile Munyon, but there ain't nothin' to it. We'll prick the Munyon boom before it's bigger'n a pea. We'll fix things, you bet. And we'll elect you, too!
He was going to tell about the Indians again. She could tell by the look in his eye as he watched the flames leap over the logs. "Did ye know, Boy," he began slowly, "that we come out to Kaintuck with Daniel Boone?" "Did we?" "Yes sirree, with old Dan'l hisself. It wuz thirty years ago. I wuz a little shaver no bigger'n you, but I remember jest as well ez ef it wuz yistiddy.
They stood by him. Wouldn't see him imposed upon." "They just wouldn't. They're prime little chaps. The other boys were bigger'n they are. I'd ha' helped 'em, but they didn't need any help." "No. Yes, I see. It won't do to have any fighting, but then! H'm! They stood right by him! Good-afternoon, Mr. Pulsifer." "Good-afternoon, Dr. Brandegee. There, if he hasn't made me lose a hit!
"Have you?" I asked. "No, sir, I ain't. Gosh a'mighty! Say! what have ye done with that boy of our'n?" "What have you done to our house?" I asked again. "Built on an addition." "That's what I've done to your boy," I answered. "Thunder an' lightnin'! How you've raised the roof!" he exclaimed as he grabbed my satchel. "Dressed like a statesman an' bigger'n a bullmoose.
"Well, first, Lafe," she recounted, "I gathered the wood in the marsh, then I went straight across the back field through the swamp. It's froze over harder'n hell " Lafe uttered a little, "Sh!" and Jinnie, with scarlet face, supplemented, "I mean harder'n anything." "Sure," replied Lafe, nodding. "Mr. Bates and his kids were there, but he c'n carry a pile three times bigger'n I can!"
"Quit laughing, I say, or we may call moose here till crack o' doom without getting an answer. I guess they're all off to the four winds a'ready, scared by our fooling." "I told you so, boys," breathed the guide two hours later, with an overwhelming sigh of regret, after he had given his most fetching calls in vain. "I told you so. There ain't anything bigger'n a buck-rabbit travelling.
The Happy Family were foregathered there, wrangling with Happy Jack over some trifling thing. He joined zealously in the argument and helped them thrash Happy Jack in the word-war, before he came at his errand. "Say, boys, we'll have to get busy now," he told them seriously at last. "Florence Grace is onto us bigger'n a wolf and if I'm any judge, that lady's going to be some fighter.
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