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'T warn't till I come through the swamp at Bear Pond that I struck yer tracks seen 'em plain then and the way ye was a-goin'. Long 'bout four o'clock to-day I heared some fellers' voices ahead of me down in a holler. Then I see smoke and knowed they was camped close by. Bimeby I crawled out from whar I was hid and clum a tree.
"You get plenty more bimeby." "You're wrong. I got plenty right now," Broad declared. "I'm glad the Countess didn't come," said Phillips. When the men had wrung out their clothes and put on their boots they set out along the back trail over the bluffs. Danny Royal was not an imaginative person.
But bimeby I'm sober ag'in an' my money she's gone. I'm res'less feller; I don' stop long no place." "What makes you think it's a poor claim?" 'Poleon shrugged. "All my claim is poor. Me, I'm onlucky. Mebbe so I don' care enough for bein' reech. W'at I'll do wit' pile of money, eh? Drink him up? Gamble? Dat's fun for while.
Once I 'most kill man down at Long Lake. White man officer hunt me long time. I remember jail. No want some more. I hide. Send word no let um officer take me alive. Bimeby they no hunt me some more. 'Nother time I git drunk, burn house. Have to hide again long, long while till snow come, an' nobody look for me some more. If I help you do some bad things now, mebbe git officer after me 'gain."
He kep' gittin' wusser en wusser, en bimeby de rheumatiz tuk holt er 'im, en drawed him all up, 'tel one day he sont word up ter Mars Jim McGee's plantation, en ax' Pete, de nigger w'at tuk keer er de mules, fer ter come down dere dat night en fetch dat mule w'at his marster had bought fum de po' w'ite man dyoin' er de summer.
"See bimeby." And as they waited and listened with fast-beating hearts, another report echoed through the forest, and then all was still. "Sam shoot," Kitty explained. "Come." Hurrying forward, they soon reached the valley, and ere long they saw Sam bending over some object. Nearby was a large moose, with its great body and branching antlers half buried in the snow. But to this Sam gave no heed.
Propped up on her pillows, Hannah chatted incessantly, telling him the small details of her hospital life and such few facts of her illness as she had been permitted to know. "I ain' got no pain," she assured him "des now, I mean. Bimeby hit'll cum, like hit do ebery aftahnoon, but doctah he come, too, an' he git de better ub hit, ebery time. He sure am good to me, dat man!"
So he goes down to see Miss Pickett, an' bimeby me an' him meets up in front o' the eatin' house, an' he up an' asked me if I could tell him who owns that little roan cayuse kickin' up his heels over in the feed corral.
Fox then, 'I'm so fat I must go sleep now. So he'll go off in woods a little way an' he'll lie down, an' he'll go to sleep. "Bimeby Wiesacajac he'll look at the sun an' the wind plenty long, an' he'll got more hongree. So he'll come back to camp an' look for his goose. He'll take hol' of those foots that stick up there, an' pull them up, but the foots come loose!
"He'd kep' watch over it ever sence Simon began to get into trouble, reckon he knew pooty well how things would come out; an' bimeby Jason Doble, as held the mortgage, he up an' died, an' then Lawyer Clinch stepped in an' told the 'xecutors how Jason owed him a big debt, but he didn't want to do nothin' onfriendly, so he'd take the mortgage on Hartley's Glen and call it square.
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