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"I did'nt know but he would be writing for money," chuckled Jonas. "If he did, I would send him some," said Mrs. Brent. "You would!" repeated Jonas, looking at his mother in surprise. "Yes, I would send him a dollar or two, so that people needn't talk. It is always best to avoid gossip." "Are you expecting a letter from anybody, mother?" asked Jonas, after a pause.
I wonder the Novascotians don't do it for their own convenience. Said I, it would'nt make a bad speculation that. The critters don't know no better, said he. Well, says I, the St. John's folks, why don't they? for they are pretty cute chaps them. They remind me, says the Professor, of Jim Billings. You knew Jim Billings, did'nt you, Mr. Slick? Oh yes, said I, I knew him.
When the master comes in, I wuz given a terrible beating with a whip but I did'nt care fer I give the mistress a good'un too. "We lived off to the back of the masters house in a little log cabin, that had one winder in the side. We lived tobly well and didn't starve fer we had enough to eat but we didn't have as good as the master and mistress had.
The settler drew a breath long and heavy in proportion to the draught he had swallowed, and when his lungs had again recovered their play, answered blusteringly, in a voice that betokened incipient intoxication. "Roar me up a saplin' Mister, but you're mighty stingy of the Wabash. I reckon as how I made you a free offer of my food, and it war'nt no fault of mine if you did'nt choose to take it.
Well, I felt kinder grigged at missin my shot, and I did'nt over half like to be scolded too; so, says I yes, father, but recollect you had a mud bank to hide behind, where you were proper safe, and you had a rest for your guns too; but as soon as you seed a little more than the whites of their eyes, you run for dear life, full split, and so I don't see much to brag on in that arter all, so come now.
No fear of that, said he, larfin, but he'll beat you easy, any how. No flinchin, says he, I'll not let you go back of the bargain. Its run or forfeit. Well, says I, friend, there is fear of it; your horse will leave me out of sight, to a sartainty, thats a fact, for he CANT KEEP UP TO ME NO TIME. I'll drop him, hull down, in tu twos. If old Clay did'nt make a fool of him, its a pity.
"Do I?" said the happy Verty, bending his head over his shoulder to admire the general effect; "well, I feel better." "I should think so." "The other clothes were like a turkey blind." "A turkey blind?" "Oh, you smile! but you know, when you are lying in the blind, the pine limbs rub against you." "Yes." "Then they did'nt suit me." "No," assented Redbud.
"Her name was Miss Orrecta Lippincott; they generally called her Recta, in the Judge's family." "Recta is single yet, I saw her just before we left; but why did'nt you marry her?" "'Tween you and me, Doctor, I was a fool, I've allers felt a kinder hankering after her. I can't get over them fust feelings I had, to this ere day. Is she handsome yit, Doctor?" "Not very."
And there wuz that sort of a air about him, that I can't describe exactly a sort of a half offish, half familier and wholly disagreeable mean, that can be onderstood but not described. No, you can't picture that liniment, but you can be affected by it. Wall, Bial had it. And I kep' on a not likin' him, and kep' stiddy onwards a likin' Abram Gee. I couldn't help it, nor did'nt want to.
Mark did'nt take his rifle with him, thinkin' of course that he would see no game on the ice worth shootin', and a gun would only be an incumbrance to him. Well, he did his errand at the shanties, and started for home.
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