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Harrigan made a significant and covert nod and winked at McTee with infinite understanding. "Stay here yourself, lad. I wouldn't be robbing you " Kate coughed for warning, and he broke off sharply. "You've made one trip to the hill. This is my turn. Besides, you wouldn't know how to keep the stick burnin'. I've done it before." McTee stared, agape with astonishment.
She's goin' because she thinks she's an object of shame an' disgrace; because she feels on her own dear head an' weighin' on her own great, soft, simple heart all the weight of the shame that belonged to that bad devil of a father of hers; because all that the papers, an' the lawyers, an' the judge said about the sins o' Ephraim Shine she feels burnin' in red letters on her own sweet face.
McTee rumbled after a pause, and without looking at Harrigan: "There's plenty of it there. I made a little heap of the driest on the crown of the hill." "Then the next thing is to move our fire up there." "Move our fire?" cried Kate. "How can you carry the fire?" "Easy. Take two pieces of burnin' wood an' walk along holdin' them close together.
Hold on a minute" he went to the bucket, and refilled his pannikin "It was this way: I was jist startin' to thatch a new haystack for two ole bosses o' mine, on the Vic. side o' the Murray, when up comes a trooper. "'What's your name? says he. "'Andrew Glover, says I. "'Well, Andrew Glover, you're my prisoner charged with burnin' a stack, says he. 'I must fetch you along, says he.
Bless MY soul, I'd sooner have a dozen Mary Anns an' their dustpans round the place than one tomfool steward like Jenkins." He went to the saloon hatch. "Below there!" "Ay, ay, sir." "What are you burning?" "I an't burnin' northen, sir." "Tell you, I smell it!" "There's northen burnin' here, sir." "Neither is there; it's all on deck.
Say, I kin see dat ole' fiah place wid de big logs a burnin' right now; uh, an' smell dat good cookin', all dun in iron pots an' skillets. An' all de cookin' an' heatin' wuz dun by wood, why I nebber seed a lump o' coal all time I wuz der. We all had to cut so much wood an' pile it up two weeks 'for Christmas, an' den when ouah pile wuz cut, den ouah wurk wuz dun, so we'd jes' hav good time."
"Yo' all gwine to know 'bout him mighty quick," said she solemnly. "He's on de rampage. Scalpin' an' burnin' white folks at de stake an' des wallerin' in blood. Yas, suh, Ah suttinly ain't gwine feel so skeert o' dat ole Black Hawk 'long as yo' is livin' right nex' do', Zachariah." "Wha' yo' all talkin' about?"
But the next day, when they wuz alone together, I s'pose he put the case all before her. All his warm burnin' love for her, all his jealousy, and his wretchedness while she wuz a waverin' between Banks and Bread, how his heart had been checked by the thought that Bial would vault over him, and in the end hold him at a discount.
But I told Josiah that women had walked daily over the burning plow shares of duty and domestic tribulation, till their feet had got calloused, and could stand more'n you'd think for. And he said he didn't know as females had any more burnin' plow shares to tread on than men had. And I sez, "I didn't say they had, Josiah. I never wanted women to get more praise or justice than men.
Harrigan and the big Scot exchanged glances. Faintly and slowly they smiled. There was a profound mutual understanding in that smile. "I'm dying," went on Sloan eagerly and still in that slavering voice. "I'm burnin' up inside. For God's sake let 'em take him and finish him off!" And always as he spoke his quick eyes went back and forth from face to face. They had neither eye nor voice for him.
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