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Set clus' and hold on, that's all now!" "But, look here, I want to go to Smyrna tavern!" "Good for you!" Hiram cried. "Set clus' and you'll get there!" It seemed, after all, that ill repute had not spread far. His spirits rose, and he whipped on at even better speed. "If this isn't life or death," pleaded the little man, "you needn't hurry so." Several "thank-you-marms" had nearly bounced him out.
The scout's rifle spoke and another wolf yelped. "Yer welcome," Solomon shouted. "I slammed that 'er hunk o' lead into the pack leader a whale of a wolf. The ol' Cap'n stepped right up clus. Seen 'im plain gray, long legged ol' whelp. He were walkin' towards the fire when he stubbed his toe. It's all over now. They'll snook erway. The army has lost its Gin'ral."
Tell your folks I expect and want 'em to keep right on tradin' with me." When Alice appealed to Mr. Mears she also met only the kindest of words. "Ye can drive back an' forth, an' not be away from home over night," said he, "till snow comes, an' then I'll git ye a boardin'-place clus by the schoolhouse and fetch and carry ye Mondays and Fridays."
Wal I started agin, but hadn't run more'n fifty yards, afore I tripped and down I went. I knowed 'twas all up with me then, so I jist laid still. Why, I was so scart I couldn't hev moved ef I'd tried; but I did look up jist once, to see the bar set clus by, watchin' me, and lookin' as mad as a wet hen. "I never was so scart afore nor since.
"He'll go out an' wake up the folks on his road an' start 'em movin'." They landed and Solomon hid his canoe in a thicket. "Now we kin skitter right long, but I tell ye we got purty clus to 'em back thar." "How did you know it?" "Got a whiff o' smoke. They was strung out from the pond landing over 'crost the trail. They didn't cover the swamp.
"Bon, brave Etooelle," he said, "your bags of bullets were welcome friends, and they arrived at the right moment." "Why, Captain Rule, in the Granite country we are never wasteful of our means. You can always wait for the white of Englishmen's eyes in these affairs. They're spiteful devils, on the whull, and seem to be near-sighted to a man. They came so clus' at Bunker Hill, our folks "
Rondeau instantly started for home, where he was greeted by Aunt Dilsey with a torrent of abuse, that good lady rating him soundly for being gone too long. "Warn’t he ’shamed to be foolin’ away his time? ’Twan’t his time nuther, ’twas marster’s time. Was that ar fulfillin’ of Scripter, which says, ’we must be all eye sarvants,’ which means ye must all keep clus where yer marsters can see you?"
Ahead in the distance they had heard voices and the neighing of a horse. "My son," said Solomon as he pointed with his finger, "do you see the brow o' the hill yonder whar the black thickets be?" Jack nodded. "If ye hear to me yell stay this side. This 'ere business is kind o' neevarious. I'm a-goin' clus up. If I come back ye'll hear the call o' the bush owl.
You'd better beliebe I trabeled fast to tell you ob it." "From which direction do you think they come?" "Dunno, but I finks de way dey looks dat dey come purty near from dis way, mighty clus to whar we's standin'; and I t'inks dey'll take de same route to git back agin." Somehow or other, the Lieutenant had the same impression as the negro.
Thinks I, he ain't liable to git by ye if he comes in whar I knowed he would. Well, he's consider'ble of a deer, I swan!" he declared, running his hand over the branching prongs. "He's a beauty!" cried Thayor. "Yes, sir, and he'll dress clus to a hundred and seventy. Must have made him think this perticler section was inhabited when ye was lettin' drive at him. Fust shot I know ye shot too quick.
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