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"This way," roared Councill, putting his arm around his wife's waist. She boxed his ears, while he guffawed and clucked at his team. Burns took a measure of salt and went out into the pasture to salt the cows.
Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming to me to be a very pleasant and strong place; and we lay at the Red Lyon, where Haselrigge and Scott and Walton did hold their councill, when they were here, against Lambert and the Committee of Safety. Several officers of the Yard came to see us to-night, and merry we were, but troubled to have no better lodgings. 2nd. Up, and Mr.
He agreed to pay two dollars a month for it, and the use of the two chairs, and cooking stove, which made up its furnishing. He had purchased a skillet and two or three dishes, Mrs. Councill had lent him a bed, and he seemed reasonably secure against hunger and cold. He looked forward to his entrance into the school with dread.
Councill, "you'll haf to put up with it jest as if y' wa'n't a Congressman." "I guess he can stand a few days what we stand all the while," Councill interjected. There was a good deal of banter during the meal about "downing" the Congressman. Bradley's physical pride was roused and he took his place in the field determined to show them their mistake.
Expressly to follow your directions by Captain Newport, though they be performed, I was directly against it; but according to our commission, I was content to be overouled by the major part of the Councill, I feare to the hazard of us all; which now is generally confessed when it is too late.
Marriott's the house-keeper, and there we had a very good dinner and good company, among others Lilly, the painter. Thence to the councill-chamber, where in a back room I sat all the afternoon, but the councill begun late to sit, and spent most of the time upon Morisco's Tarr businesse.
"That woman never got into that fit f'r nawthin'." "Wall, if you know more about it than I do, whadgy ask me fur?" he replied, angrily. "Tut, tut!" put in Councill, "hold y'r horses! Don't git on y'r ear, children! Keep cool, and don't spile y'r shirts. Most likely you're all t' blame. Keep cool an' swear less." "Wai, I'll bet Sim's more to blame than she is.
The wind roared through the creaking oaks; the horses stirred complainingly, the bells on their backs crying out querulously; the heads of the fortunates inside were shadowed outside on the snow, and the restless young men amused themselves betting on which head was Bensen and which Councill. At last some one pounded on the desk inside.
"Why don't you fight 'em?" asked Milton, after Mr. Jennings had covered the whole ground thoroughly. Councill laughed. "We've been a-fightin' um; suppose you try." "Give us a chance, and we'll do our part. Won't we, Brad?" Bradley nodded, and so committed himself to the fight. He was fated to begin his political career as an Independent Republican.
"Better buy a team with it and rent a piece of land. What y' goan to do after you spent the money?" "I don't know," Bradley had replied in his honest way. "Wal, I'd think of it a dum long spell 'fore I'd do it," was Ike's reply, and Councill had agreed with it. Bradley fell behind Ike, for he wanted to be alone.
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