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He found neither; but as he was standing in the door undecided about taking the stage, Berea came into town riding a fine bay pony, and leading a blaze-face buckskin behind her. Her face shone cordially, as she called out: "Well, how do you stack up this morning?" "Tip-top," he answered, in an attempt to match her cheery greeting. "Do you like our town better?" "Not a bit!

He stared up at me incredulously. "Is this the same outfit?" he whispered. "It is," said I, "I know the blaze-face brute." "But but " "They played 'possum on you, Captain." The Captain arose and his wrath exploded. "You miserable hounds!" he roared. With a wise premonition they decamped.

He is a reg'lar college feller, and I reckon he knows single and double rule of three, and all the rest." Sam coaxed the Squire to let him have old "Blaze-face," the blind mare, to ride to Johnsonville, three miles off, the next morning, if he would promise to be back "on time to begin shuckin' corn bright and airly." And before six o'clock he hitched old Blaze in front of "Preacher Brown's" door.

"Say his own chil'n air 'hearty feeders an' hard on shoe-leather? Takes a good deal o' goadin' ter git ploughin' enough fur the wuth o' feed out'n a toler'ble beastis like old Blaze-face thar, don't it, Neighbor? an' how is it a-goin' ter be with a human ez mebbe will hold back an' air sot agin plough-in' ennyhow, an' air sorter idle by profession?