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But on election night what does Gaius Ellis do but send a wagon after old man Solomon Peavey, who'd been dry docked with rheumatiz for three months, and Sol's vote evened her up. 'Twas ten to ten, a deadlock, and the election was postponed for another week. "This was of a Tuesday. On Wednesday I met Bije Simmons, the chap who was playin' pool at Jotham's. "'Hey, Bailey! says he.
After dinner corned beef and cabbage trust Zach for that, though it's next door to cannibalism to put cabbage in HIS mouth after dinner all hands was on deck when Nat says: 'Hush! he says. 'Don't I hear somethin'? "They listened, and then they all heard it all 'cept Zach, who's deef in his larboard ear. "'Stand by! roars Nat. 'It's a squall, dead astern and comin' abilin'! I'll take her, 'Bije.
"'What'll we do, Nat? says 'Bije. He knew who was the real seaman aboard. "'Keep her as she is, dead afore it, if you ask me, says Nat. 'Guess we'll hit the broadside of the cape somewheres if this gale holds. "So they kept her as she was. And it got to be night and they knew they'd ought to be 'most onto the edge of the flats off here, if their reck'nin' was nigh right.
The attempt was not repeated, for some reason or other, probably because the British got wary and kept farther away from shore. The next year, however, inventor Bushnell succeeded in blowing up a British schooner with his torpedo; but neither he nor quaint "Bije" Shipman ever received the credit that was their due, the latter being one of the forgotten heroes of the Revolution.
They hove the lead and got five fathom. No flats about that. "Zach was for anchorin' again. 'What do you think, Nat? asks 'Bije. "'Anchor, of course, if you want to, Nat says. 'You're runnin' this craft. I'm only passenger. "'But what do you THINK? whines Zach. 'Can't you tell us what you do think? "'Well, if 'twas me, I wouldn't anchor till I had to.
"Bije," answered the senator. "Great Scott, do you mean to say you've got Bixby?" exclaimed the railroad president. He felt as if he would like to shake the senator, who was so deliberate and mournful in his answers. "What did you pay him?" Mr. Hartington appeared shocked by the question. "Guess Heth Sutton will settle with him," he said. "Heth Sutton! Why the why should Heth pay him?"
"I've knowed him ever sense we was boys," said Mr. Bixby; "you saw how intimate we was. When he wants a thing done, he says, 'Bije, you go out and get 'em. Never counts the cost. He was nice to you wahn't he, Will?" And then Mr. Bixby leaned over and whispered in Mr. Wetherell's ear; "He knows you understand he knows." "Knows what?" demanded Mr. Wetherell. Mr.
'Bije had about all the good looks there was in our family," with a chuckle. "Set down, do." The girl seated herself in a rocker, and looked at him for a moment without speaking. She seemed to have something on her mind, and not to know exactly how to express it. "Captain Warren," she began, "I I came to ask a favor.
Seems to me 'twas a pig, but I ain't sure that it mightn't have been a settin' of Plymouth Rock hens' eggs. Anyhow, Uncle Bije KEPT hens, because I remember one time " "There! there! we'll be out of sight of land in a minute. This Mary Thayer old, was she?" "No, no! Just a young girl, eighteen or twenty or so. Pretty and nice and quiet as ever I see. By Godfrey, she WAS pretty!
"What did he say, Daddy?" asked Cynthia, as Wetherell stood staring after the flitting buggy in bewilderment. "I haven't the faintest idea, Cynthia," answered her father, and they walked on. "Don't you know who 'Bije' is? "No," said her father, "and I don't care."
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