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"I saw that thing crawlin' round, 'n' I was a-wonderin' what it was, fer I never seen one afore. I knowed Cap was a scolard, 'n' a perfesser, 'n' all that 'n' I 'lowed he c'd tell me all about it. So I went 'n' axed him." "What'd he tell ye?" "He told me lots o' big, heathenish words, 'n' said this bug was a ridiculous, or suthin' like that."
I hev lain on that bed, sir," he pointed to it as he spoke, while large drops stood on his pale brow at the very recollection, "and I hev seen devils and toads and serpents crawlin' round me and over me great spiders, and hairy shapeless things, wi' slimy legs goin' over my face, and into my mouth, though I gnashed my teeth together and glaring into my tight shut eyes, an' strangling me.
He took it in the tummy, crawlin through the embrasure hand-grenade, I fancies. I was next man on the ladder." He was marching up and down, his hands swinging, seeming to smoulder almost in the gloom. "Pretty work in the battery, be God, as ever I see! One time we was bungin round-shot at each other across the casement, like marbles.
"Plain 'Shorty' of the Bar X er a miserable, crawlin' worm for disturbin' of you." He rolled his eyes helplessly at Bailey, while he sopped with his crumpled sombrero at the glistening perspiration. "Why didn't ye tell me?" he whispered ferociously at the host, and the volume of his query carried to Joy, hiding out in the night. "Mr.
"He started to git up, but his ankle was sprained, and Uncle Jim says: 'No wonder, Sam; you jumped about six feet when you saw that snake crawlin' out o' your pants leg. "And Sam says: 'Six feet? I know I jumped six hundred feet, Uncle Jim.
"Of my Mintie. That feller a married man has bin after her and some of you know it. She kin take keer of herself can my Mints, but some things is a man's business. I meant to shoot him, but I didn't. I'm glad the low-down cuss is dead, but the bullet that stopped his crawlin' to my gal never come outer my rifle.
Many's the time, says she, 'I've seen pore July with her head tied up, crawlin' around tryin' to cook for sixteen harvest hands, and you out in the stable cossetin' up a sick mare, and rubbin' down your three-year-olds to get 'em in trim for the fair. Of all the things that's hard to understand, says she, 'the hardest is a man that has more mercy on his horse than he has on his wife.
"Thet green, devilish, crawlin' face if ye must know!" And he twisted his long, ape-like arms across his eyes, lying curled up as a dog might. For a moment Hampton stood gazing down upon him, listening to his incoherent mutterings, his own face grave and sympathetic. Then he moved back and sat down. Suddenly the full conception of what this meant came to his mind the man had gone mad.
Why do you talk with me?" "Because I need a man like you." "To lead the mutiny?" "Tell me first, are you with us?" "Who are us?" "You'll have to speak first." "I'm with you." "Now I'll tell you. The whole forecastle is hungry for the end of White Henshaw. Your share of the money is whatever you want to make it. You can have all my part; what I want is the sight of Henshaw crawlin' at our feet."
We'll make a fine fight of it!" grimly said Cousin as he stepped from a loophole at the back of the cabin. "It's too late for us to make the ridge now. It's crawlin' with the vermin." His bearing was exceedingly cheerful as he posted himself at the front of the cabin, his double-barrel rifle ready for a snap-shot. He fired the two barrels almost together, and laughed boisterously.
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