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It occupied all Cap's faculties to push her way through the overhanging and interlacing branches of the trees. "Good gracious," she said, as she used her left arm rather vigorously to push aside the obstructions to her path, "one would think this were the enchanted forest containing the castle of the sleeping beauty, and I was the knight destined to deliver her!
"Of course, you and Ted must arrange all that," he said, and turned the conversation. Cap's lack of confidential relations with Perkins did not stand in the way of his mentioning the affair to him that night after dinner. "I thought you ought to know it, Ted," he concluded. "Of course, you will do as you please about the matter, only I shall not take her."
'I'm as good a man as ye ar-re. "'Gin'ral Billot, says th' prisident, 'what d'ye know about this infernal case which is broodin' like a nightmare over our belovid counthry, an' gettin' us up ivry mornin' befure milkin' time? "'Nawthin' at all, says Gin'ral Billot. "'Nayther do I, says th' prisident. 'But I think th' Cap's guilty.
The animal leaped like a deer, fairly lifting the narrow sleigh, and with tails fluttering from his fur robes, his cap's coon tail streaming behind, away up the tote-road went Gideon Ward on his return to the deep woods, the mighty din of his myriad bells clashing down the forest aisles. At the distant turn of the road he hooted with the vigor of a screech owl, "Better'n law!" and disappeared.
That will take down the swelling, replied the vicar, who was a little of a doctor himself. 'A compress? repeated Florence, wrinkling her forehead. 'But I never heard of one. I don't know how. 'Light a fire and boil some water, and then wring out some cloths in it, and put them on Cap's paw. Here is a boy who will make a fire for you, he added, beckoning to a lad who was passing outside.
Well, one day, massa mind Ol' Cap's runnin' acrost in de rain an' in great state ob excitement to tell him his house done burnt up?" "Yes. What then?" "Dat day, massa, de letters had come from Massa Reuben out in Indy, an' massa's pipe kinder 'tracted Cap's 'tention, an' so he jist set down in massa's chair an' took a smoke.
They had their caps in their hands, and didn't say anything but brushed their hair back and took their seats in the first place they could find, which happened to be Cap's cot. Cap didn't notice 'em till after Cap Summerville had caught his queen and then checkmated him in two moves.
"Them Yankees is runnin' back to their camps as fast as they'uns's legs 'll carry they'uns. If yo'uns 'd had any sand, and stood yer ground, you'd 'a seed 'em. But yo' yaller hammers allers git the ager when ever a cap's busted, and run yer rabbit-gizzards out." "Y're a liar," hotly responded another voice. "Thar was more'n 50 o' them Yankees, if thar was a man.
"I'll lay a shilling you've got everything packed and ready, and put just where a chap can lay his hands on it," he said. "Yes, Father. Your tweed cap's in the big pocket of your thick top- coat, and there's an extra pair of spectacles and your pipe and tobacco in the small one." "And off we go back to England same as we came!" He rubbed his head, and drew a big, worried sigh.
The shepherd stopped his work, and as he glanced at the dog with a merry laugh, said, 'Do look at the dog, Miss; he be so pleased to hear your voice. Cap's tail went faster and faster. 'I be glad, continued the old man, 'I did not hang him. I be greatly obliged to you, Miss, and the vicar, for what you did. But for you I would have hanged the best dog I ever had in my life."
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