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'Sides, as I told yez, I don't know nithing about kids. Old Mrs. Billy Crawford, she was here when it was born and she washed it and rolled it up in that flannel, and Jen she's tended it a bit since. The critter is warm enough. This weather would melt a brass monkey." Rilla was silent, looking down at the crying baby.
For two or three days I was the most miserable critter that ever limped on two legs. I'd have give my whole load of peltries to get that flask back agin, but there was no help for it. Twice I rode up to the camp fires of Injins, hoping to buy some fire water from them, but neither party had a drop. Then I buckled down to it. "On the fourth night when I camped I was almost crazy.
The patriarch became impatient. "Yore play, sonny," he suggested. "I don't believe you know the one I mean," returned Bennington slowly. "She's a girl with a little mouth and a nose that is tipped up just a trifle " "Snub!" interrupted Old Mizzou, with some impatience. "Yas, I knows. Same critter. Only one like her in th' Hills.
"There's no use wastin' time on the critter. I'm inclined ter think now that there's somethin' more than ordinary in the wind," he added, as they left the hut, with the half-idiotic chuckles of its occupant ringing in their ears. It was not far from midnight when the boys, sorely perplexed, once more reached Hampton.
Oh, I was dreadfully frightened, to be sure; and just as I was going to scream out, the ghost puts his hand upon me and says 'hush! which skeer'd me so that I almost fainted away. Well, ma'am, what does the ghost do next but take ondecent liberties with me, and I was too much frightened to say, 'have done, now! And then the awful critter did what no ghost ever did before to me, nor man neither.
"Do you mean I was that excited I pulled both triggers at once?" cried Steve. "Well, both hammers are down, and," breaking the gun as he spoke, "you can see for yourself the shells are empty." "Glory! No wonder I blew that old cat away, then!" cried Steve. "With all those two dozen buckshot chasing through him the poor critter must have been nearly torn to pieces.
"An' be you goin' to let him lose that fifteen dollars?" asked the practical Polly, fixing her brother with her eyes. "Wa'al," said David, with a short laugh, "what c'n I do with such an obst'nit critter 's he is? He jest backed into the britchin', an' I couldn't do nothin' with him." Aunt Polly sat over her sewing for a minute or two without taking a stitch.
"'There, said I, pointing to the poor murdered critter with my finger, 'the law, you say, won't allow us two cows, but it does give us a barrel of beef. This is our beef touch it if you dare! "He skulked away and I fell down on my knees by the poor critter my own hands had killed. It seemed as if my heart would break!
Well, jist as it struck nine o'clock, says I, Sally, hold this here hank of twine for a minute, till I wind a trifle on it off; that's a dear critter. She sot down her candle, and I put the twine on her hands, and then I begins to wind and wind away ever so slow, and drops the ball every now and then, so as to keep her down stairs.
Do you remember how pink his pretty little nose was, just like a rosebud, and how bright his eyes looked, and his cunning legs? And now he's grown so big and fierce! But I can't help liking him, either." "He's a cute critter, that's sartain; but he does too much rootin' to have a pink nose now, I expect; there's consider'ble on't, so I guess it looks as well to have it gray.
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