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Captain Corbet raised his head, and peered into the sky above, and sniffed the sea air. "Wal, railly," said he, "I do declar ef it don't railly seem as ef it railly is a change o' weather it railly doos. Why, ain't this rich? We're ben favored at last. We're agoin to hev a clar day. Hooray!"
"Ha!" said the man, with a broad grin, "me keep eyes in head me doos not in pocket. Ho! ho! Yis, me see an' hear berry well Muggins go too if hims can and Larry O'Hale, ho yis. Now, me go too!" "You too?" "Yis. You save me life; me know dis here part ob the univarse, bin bornded an' riz here. Not far off from de land to-day. You let me go too, an' me show you how you kin do "
"I declare for't Zadkiel 'll hev plenty o' kumpny daown tew jail, by the time them suits be all tried." "By gosh, what be we a comin tew?" groaned Abner. "It doos seem zif we all on us mout z'well move daown tew the jail to onc't, an hev done with 't. We're baown to come to 't fuss or las'."
Ef he doos I guess he'll make aout, fur I don't bleeve ez a kumpny o' men could be raised in all Berkshire, tew go an fight the redcoats agin, if they wuz to come to-morrer." And a general murmur of assent confirmed his words. "Wal," said Abner, recovering speech, "live an larn.
"And for my part, Miss Prouty," he added, nodding and winking at his questioner, "I'd like to see it fixed so she'd alwus stay; and if the Doctor doos think he can't do no better'n to have her bimeby, when the time comes, who's a right to say a word agin it?" "Goodness me!" exclaimed the unwary Mrs. Prouty, "do you mean to say you think he's got any idea of such a thing, Bildad?"
Rossitur's, down to Queechy." "Mr. Rossitur's!" said Mrs. Evelyn. "Does he send them here?" "He doos not," said Philetus "he doosn't keep to hum for a long spell." "Who does send them, then?" said Constance. "Who doos? It's Miss Fliddy Ringgan." "Mamma!" exclaimed Constance, looking up. "What does she have to do with it?" said Mrs. Evelyn.
"Orrible things to you 'orrible things.... Kick yer ugly.... Cut yer liver out... spread it all about, I will.... Outing doos. See? I don't care a dead rat one way or the uvver." And with a curious twisting gesture of the arm Uncle Jim receded until his face was a still, dim thing that watched, and the black shadows of the hedge seemed to have swallowed up his body altogether.
"Ye'll may be no hae read the paurable o' the money changers i' the temple, no forgettin' a wheen warldly-minded chields that sell't doos, when they had mair need to be on their knees or hearkening a religious discourse -or a bit psaum or the like. Aweel, ye need na hong your heed yon gate neether.
I thought there had been no cock down by the first bridge there, these six years; why you're getting quite stupid, and a croaker too, in your old age." "Mayhap I be," he answered rather gruffly; "mayhap I be, but you won't git no deer to-day, I'll stand drinks for the company; and if we doos start one, I'll lay on my own musket agin your rifle."
I do' know now but what they must be about grown, time doos slip away so. I expect I shall look outlandish to 'em. But there! everybody knows me to home, an' nobody knows me to Shrewsbury; 'twon't make a mite o' difference, if I take holt willin'." I hoped, as I looked at Mrs.
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