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No, I ain't never ezac'ly hear the news that the other one dead, but I suspicioned her, befo' she lef', o' bein' consumpted, an' O anyhow she's dead to me, seh! Now, the nex' time I marries eh? O yes, but the present Mis' Leggett can't las' much longeh, seh. I mistakened myseff when I aspoused her.
"He cert'n'y is weaker'n stump-water," she murmured, as she turned her horse's head; "but he's sickly an' consumpted, an' he's jest about the age my Bud would of been if he'd lived." And thinking of her first-born and only son, who died in babyhood, she rode homeward in the dim chill starlight. Tobe, spent and foot-sore, followed warily, carrying the abandoned rifle.
Bean listened to the story of the hairs to the Hutches' money. "Mabel was the favorite; her Pa set great store by her. There was another sister consumpted she should have been a hair, but she died. Then the youngest one, Hetty, she married my second cousin Hen Cronney well it seemed like they hadn't nothing but bad luck and her Pa and Mabel sort of took against Hetty." Mrs.
Being "well fixed" or being poor did not count on the edge of the prairie. They were frivolous outside matters that had weight in cities. Leff went on, "He's consumpted. That's why he's going. He says he expects to be cured before he gets to California." A sudden zephyr irritated the tree tops, which bent away from its touch and scattered moisture on the fire and the frying pan.
Dick; he's consumpted. I clean up his room ever' mornin' He coughs all the time, jes' like Mr. Wiggs done. Other day he had a orful spell while I was there. I wanted to git him some whisky, but he shuck his head. 'I'm on the water-cart, sez he. 'Bob's drivin' it. He ain't no fatter 'n a knittin'-needle, an' weaker 'n water. You orter see him watch fer Mr. Bob!
He's sech a derned fool that a catamount wouldn't tech him with a ten-foot pole! An' him a-whisslin' fer them snipe oh Lord!" "Tobe Cullum," said Mrs. Cullum, sternly, "you go saddle Buster this minit and ride out to Buck Snort after Bud Hines." "Why, honey " remonstrated Tobe. "Don't you honey me," she interrupted, wrathfully. "You saddle that horse this minit an' fetch that consumpted boy home."
An' right on top o' that, I come in lookin' sort o' puny an' peaked, an' I happened to choke on a muskitty jest ez I come in, an' she declared she wasn't a-goin' to have a consumpted man sick on her hands an' a clo'es-destroyin' steer at the same time.
"He thinks he's consumpted, and I thought I could doctor him up, and 'twould be a use for the money.
"Air you tellin' me, Tobe Cullum," his wife said, when she had heard him to the end "air you p'intedly tellin' me that you've took Bud Hines snipin'? An' that you've left that sickly, consumpted young man a-settin' out there by hisse'f to catch his death of cold; or maybe git his blood sucked out by a catamount!" "Shucks, Sissy!" replied Tobe; "nothin' ain't goin' to hurt him.
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