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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Nacherally, I makes no doubt that if you goes clost to Injuns an' studies their little game you finds some of 'em good an' some bad, some gaudy an' some sedate, some cur'ous an' some indifferent, same as you finds among shore-enough folks. It's so with mules an' broncos; wherefore, then, may not these differences exist among Injuns?
It 'most drives 'em crazy; they walks them banks for months a-wringin' their hands an' wishin' the impossible. "'Is any one drowned? asks Faro Nell, who comes in, a moment before, an' as usual plants herse'f clost to Cherokee Hall. 'Is thar any women or children aboard? "'Nell, says the Colonel, 'I apol'gizes for my ignorance, but I'm bound to confess I don't know. Thar's no one knows.
Dan likes both an' is doin' 'em even jestice. Over opp'site to Dan is a drunken passel of sports from Red Dog, said wretched hamlet bein' behind Wolfville in that as in all things else an' not ownin' no op'ry house. "As the evenin' proceeds it's about sixth drink time a casyooal gun goes off over among the Red Dog outfit, an' the lead tharfrom bores a hole in the wall clost to Dan's y'ear.
"We hev settled, an' th' lan' 's goin' t' be worth money," broke in her father. She put up her hand. "We got to go, if he comes. But" she arose wearily "if he didn't offer pay for our improvements, how could we go, or get through the winter, or build again next spring? Our money's gone." "Look a-here, Dallas," began her father, crossly, "they ain't no use t' worry th' way you do. Winter is clost.
They tell me he dressed clost to nine hunderd. Hope they contrive to cook him through and through. Never see a barbecued critter yit that was done.... Folks is beginnin' to git here. Guess they won't be a spare bedroom in town that hain't full up."
He would walk along for quite a spell, payin' no attention to anybody seemin'ly, when all at once he would dart up clost to some young girl, and look sharp at her, and then slink back agin into his old gait. Thinkses I is he crazy or is he some old fool that's love sick. But his actions didn't seem to belong to either of the classes named.
Don't waste no powder let 'em come up clost as they will. Hold on ontel we come." At dusk he slipped away, the splash of his horse's feet in the ford coming fainter and fainter, even as the hearts of some felt fainter as his wise and sturdy counsel left them. Naught to do now but to wait.
Shortly after dinner, he disappeared, and, when the afternoon was well advanced, Samson, too, with his rifle on his arm, strolled toward the stile. Old Spicer South glanced up, and removed his pipe from his mouth to inquire: "Whar be ye a-goin'?" "I hain't a-goin' fur," was the non-committal response. "Meybe hit mout be a good idea ter stay round clost fer a spell."
Take your tools and run along. I'll straighten up, and be ready for you when you can come back." "What if the fire gets over to you?" asked Bob. "I'll turn the horses loose and ride away," she said gaily. "It won't get clost to there," put in Jack. "This little ridge is rock all round it. That's why they put the camp here." "Where's water?" asked Amy.
Cephas'ses folks made us promise on our two sacred honors, Josiah's honor and mine, that we would pay back the visit, for, as Cephas said, "for relatives to live so clost to each other, and not to visit back and forth, wuz a burnin' shame and a disgrace." And Josiah promised that we would go right away after sugerin'. Wall, we got there onexpected, as they had come onto us.
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