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As they were going away, they passed a little man who had just arrived and was hitching to the horse-rail a raw-boned "clay-bank" mare. He looked up as they neared him and smiled peacefully. "Howdy?" he said to Rupert. "Ye hain't seen me afore, but I seen you when I was to Delisleville. It wuz me as told yer nigger ye'd be a fool if ye didn't get Tom ter help yer to look up thet thar claim.
Adaptation, of course, has its physics or its chemistry, because it is a physical phenomenon; but there is no adaptation of a rock or a clay-bank to its environment; there is only mechanical and chemical adjustment. The influence of the environment may bring about chemical and physical changes in a non-living body, but they are not purposive as in a living body.
The man was sitting on his horse in the middle of the road, and the first words he spoke seemed to indicate that he was waiting for Marcy. "Who was that onery looking chap I met along here a spell ago riding Beardsley's old clay-bank?" said Hawkins. "I seen you talking to him up there." "Oh, Mr.
"Just as we came out into the open field we saw General R. K. Scott, who used to be our Colonel, and who commanded our brigade, come tearing toward us with one or two aids or orderlies. He was on his big clay-bank horse, 'Old Hatchie, as we called him, as we captured him on the battlefield at the battle of 'Matamora, or 'Hell on the Hatchie, as our boys always called it.
After cycles of separation, Puritan and Cavalier united on this clay-bank in the Louisiana Purchase, and swept westward together like the struggle of two great rivers when they meet the waters for a while were dangerous. So Eliphalet was established, among the Puritans, at Miss Crane's. The dishes were to his taste. Brown bread and beans and pies were plentiful, for it was a land of plenty.
He look 'cross de crick, an' seed dis yer clay-bank, an' he waded ober an' got all he could eat, an' den tuk a lump wid 'im, an' hid in de woods ag'in 'til he could study de matter ober some.
He had only this consolation; his keeping the company of Miss Hawkins might serve to disarm the resentment of Bud. At all events, he had no choice. What designs the Squire had in this arrangement he could not tell; but the clay-bank mare carried him to meeting on that December morning, with Martha Hawkins behind.
They got aplenty when Buck went on th' warpath, an they's hankerin' to git square," remarked Johnny Nelson, stealing the pie, a rare treat, of his neighbor when that unfortunate individual was not looking. He had it halfway to his mouth when its former owner, Jimmy Price, a boy of eighteen, turned his head and saw it going. "Hi-yi! Yu clay-bank coyote, drap thet pie!
"'Yas, I knows my Ben w'at runned erway. Does you know whar he is? "'Why, I's yo' Ben, Mars Marrabo. Doan yer know me, marster? "'No, I doan know yer, yer yaller rascal! W'at de debbil yer mean by tellin' me sich a lie? Ben wuz black ez a coal an' straight ez an' arrer. Youer yaller ez dat clay-bank, an' crooked ez a bair'l-hoop.
"They han't got thar range yit," cries the guide; "but this child hez got his leastwise for that skunk on the clay-bank mustang. So hyar goes to rub him off o' the list o' fire shooters." And simultaneous with the last word is heard the crack of Wilder's rifle.
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