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She is a good, willin' creeter, but she is apt to get things wrong, dretful apt. She made her little boy's pantaloons once wrong side before, so it would seem that he would have to set down from the front side, or else stand up. And twice she got her husband's pantaloons sewed up so there wuz no way to get into em' only to crawl up into 'em through the bottom of the legs.
I advanced towards her and sez: "Arvilly Lanfear! or she that wuz, is it you?" "Yes, I've come, and if ever a human creeter come through sufferin' I have. Why, I've been agent for 'The Wild Deeds of Men' for years and years, but I never knew anything about 'em till I come on this tower. I thought that I should never git that man here alive.
Good old creeter! I wuzn't goin' to have him run at this late day, and run down his own streets too. But ag'in Josiah hurried me on'ards. And bimeby we found ourselves a standin' in front of a kind of a lonesome lookin' house, big and square, with tall pillows in front. It wuz a standin' back as if it wuz a kinder a drawin' back from company, in a square yard all dark and shady with tall trees.
Ury hung back at first. But she smiled, and said she would do it." I groaned aloud, "That clever little creeter! You have imposed upon her, and she has stood it." "Imposed upon her? I have made her a heroine. "Folks will make as much agin of her. I don't believe any female ever done any thing like it before, not in any novel, or any thing." "No," I groaned. "I don't believe they ever did."
They keep him in the Museum of Cairo now, a purpose, I spoze, to scare folks from doin' what he did, for a humblier lookin' creeter I never see, and hard lookin'; I don't wonder a mite at the bad things I've hearn tell on him; why, a man that looked like that wuz sure to be mean as pusley.
And that he said solemn "that he did not remember one thing that had taken place after he had taken his three first drinks up in that saloon, till he sobered up and found himself in that deserted old barn, with the little dead body by his side, little delicate creeter, dead and frozen, with all of the black future of desperate remorse and agony for him a-lookin' at him in the stare of her open blue eyes."
It wuz money that fell onto her from her father, or that should have fell, that she wuz a tryin' to git it to fall. And he won the case. It fell. She wuz rich as a Jew before she got this money, but she acted as tickled over it as if she wuzn't worth a cent. She is a well-meanin', fat little creeter, what there is of her.
"Ruth," said Aunt Jane, after a close scrutiny of Winfield, "if you' relayin' out to marry that awkward creeter, what ain't accustomed to a parlour, you'd better do it now, while him and the minister are both here." Winfield was willing, but Ruth said that one wedding at a time was enough in any family, and the minister, pledged to secrecy, took his departure.
"He shall carry the lambs in His bosom." That wuz two years ago. Elnathan Allen is a changed man, a changed man. I hain't mentioned the word surplus population to him. No, I hadn't the heart to. Poor creeter, I wuz good to him as I could be all through it, and so wuz Josiah. His hair got white as a old man's in less than two months.
I knew how the shafts of calumny and envy might be aimed at me by his relations, so I would take along one on his side to share my responsibility, so if he did lose his mind and couldn't find it agin, they couldn't find fault with me and say I hadn't done my best. So I proposed that his niece, Blandina Teeter, should go with us, she is well off and a willin' creeter.
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