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It satisfied them ez well ez them buttons ye puts in missionary boxes, I reckon, and, 'cepting ez freight, don't cost nothin'. I found 'em tucked in the ribs o' the old Pontiac when I bought her, and I nailed 'em up in thar lest they should fall into dishonest hands. It's a lucky thing, Mr. Renshaw, that they comes into the honest fingers of a square man like Sleight ain't it?"
"I won't if you do as I tell you." "Do what?" "Give up the widow's money." "See here, young fellow, you've made a mistake. I never was near the widow's house, 'cepting this morning." "I know better. You just broke open her desk and stole over two hundred dollars." "It's a mistake. Put down the pistol and I'll tell you all about it." "I'm not such a fool, Mr.
Th' beasts of the field couldna' conceive such baseness, Wayland! 'Tis the work o' devils spawned by harpies! They say there is no devil to-day! Hoh!" The old man puffed the heresy from his pursed lips. "The beasts don't prey on their own 'cepting the rats that starve; but, man, there's no explanation of his self-destruction 'cepting the old fashioned one, Wayland. 'He was possessed by a devil."
"Playing," exclaimed the old man. "Well, I never in all my life! When there ain't a house 'cepting my own for leagues and leagues, and he says he's playing! What may you be now?" he shouted again. "A little boy," screamed Martin. "I knowed that afore I axed," said the other. Then he slapped his legs and held up his hands with astonishment, and at last began to chuckle.
"'Well, says the nager, 'I'll take chance of that, any way." "I'm tould, Shane," observed the poacher, "that the Square was a fine man in his time, that wouldn't put up with sich treatment from anybody." "Ay, but he was ould now," Shane replied, "and too wakely to fight. A fine man, Bill! he was the finest man, 'cepting ould Square Storey, that ever was in this counthry.
Even if I am just now lying up, as it were, I'm fully what they term o-fay with matters, and, by all accounts, after Bassett Oliver went up that there path, subsequent to his bit of talk with Ewbank, he was never seen no more 'cepting by me, and possibly by Squire Greyle. Them as lives a good deal alone, like me guv'nor, develops what you may call logical faculties they thinks and thinks deep.
Whether I dreamed the whole, I cannot tell; but the conversation seemed strangely distinct; and I can never forget the words, be they real, or imaginary: "'There ain't no train till daylight, 'cepting it be the through freight. "Then a different voice asked: 'When it that due?"
Sez I: 'Hello! what's to pay? He was most out of breath, but sez he: 'Is the train in yet? Sez I: 'There ain't no train till daylight, 'cepting it be the through freight. Then he axed me: 'When is that due? and I tole him: 'Pretty soon, I reckon, but it don't stop here; it only slows up at the water tank, whar it blows for the Bridge. Sez he: 'How fur is that bridge? Sez I: 'Only a short piece down the track, after you pass the tank. He tuck a long breath, and kinder whistled, and with that he turned and heeled it down the middle of the track.
In his mother's voice was neither scolding nor complaint. "Jimmy always would play some from the time he was born. His boss says he's the best worker he's got 'cepting the boy who sits next to him, and if he'd just stay still all day " "Oh, can he play?" I made no apology for the interruption.
"Your mare is the ugliest in the lot," said Sile, recklessly. "Best though. Out-walk, out-run, and out-starve any critter in the outfit, 'cepting me." "Can you out-travel a horse?" "Course I can most horses. I don't know 'bout the old mare. She can out-travel anything. She's good tempered, too; knows just when it's the right time to kick and break things. Oh but can't she tear, though!"
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