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So she slipped off her dress, as she had done all her life, and crawled into bed with Bub, who lay in the middle of it and who grunted peevishly when she pushed him with some difficulty over to his side. There were no sheets not even one and the coarse blankets, which had a close acrid odour that she had never noticed before, seemed almost to scratch her flesh.
Mounting to his first outlook, his little blue eyes dilated, for he saw an Indian creeping along. "Charlie," said he, jumping down in terror. "Injun come to kill Bub!" But, as Charlie did not reply, he clambered on the bed, crying, "Charlie, 'peak to Bub; Injun come!" Then, supposing that the reason he made no answer was because he had burnt the powder, he said, with quivering lip,
Still, I shouldn't ha' picked out just that kind of a wife for him." "As I understand," the storekeeper began; but here he caught sight of Widow Seth Wray's boy, and asked, "What's wanted, Bub? Corn-ball?" and turning to take that sweetmeat from the shelf behind him he added the rest in the mouth of the hollowly reverberating jar, "She's got prop'ty."
Sally hain't to blame. But with a noble scorn filling my eye, and floating out the strings of my head-dress, I moved off to bed. Wall, the next mornin' I sent Dorlesky's errents by Bub Smith to William Wallace, for I felt a good deal fagged out. Bub did 'em well, and I know it. But William Wallace sent him to Gen. Logan. And Gen.
He is now in charge of Yale Hall. The circumstances under which I met Doc were rather peculiar. "Say, bub," said Gar, the bouncer, to me one day, "what ungodly hour of the mornin' d'ye git up?" "At the godly hour of necessity," I replied. "Wal, I hev a pal I want ter interjooce to ye at six."
"Pappoose in dere," said the Indian, pointing to the stone. "Take stone out." The captain drew it forth, got down on his hands and knees, and peeped in, and saw Bub's bright eyes looking into his; and, taking hold of Bub's chubby hand, he said, soothingly, for Bub now began to cry, "Don't be afraid, my little fellow; we are all your friends, and have come to take you to your mother."
He re-entered the house, and presently came out holding half a loaf in his hand. "That'll do for our breakfast," he said. "We won't eat it now. We'll wait till five o'clock. Then we'll be hungry." By five o'clock they were as many miles on their way. They had reached the middle of the next town. "Do you feel tired, bub?" asked Abner. "A little. I feel hungry.
"You tell me," he said, "what he's making hats for he don't sell 'em and I'll tell you what he's up to." "Some of the labor leaders in the West are mixed up in it," said Harry; "we know that." "Labor leaders, Harry!" The small boy's face was comic with scorn and facetiousness. "You know the ones I mean, Bub.
Then, as I hurried by as fast as I could go, the blacksmith, Wachter, who was there, with his apprentice, reading the bulletin, called after me: "Don't go so fast, bub; you'll get to your school in plenty of time!" I thought he was making fun of me, and reached M. Hamel's little garden all out of breath.
"I've been too long with men not to appreciate a good chief of staff when I see him," laughed the General. Framed in the big door, with the dim glow of light behind him, he watched them depart. The Duke walked in the far shadows of the station platform in silence, smoking, until the train whistled. "Bub, you remember that I told you I'd put you in right," he said, climbing the car steps.
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