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"Bless de Lawd!" he exclaimed as he faced them. "Is you done come fer de sick sodger at my cabin?" "A sick soldier? Why, we are all sick soldiers," answered Dan. "Where did he come from?" The old man shook his head, as he placed his heavy split basket on the ground at his feet. "I dunno, marster, he ain' come, he des drapped.
Well, bejabers, the full moon come up at last an' she made the sign of the shaddy crass, an' the ould Cat goes out an' watches an' watches loike he wanted to an' didn't dar to, till that crass drapped fayer onto the hairbs, an' Tom he jumped then an' ate an' ate, an' from that day he was a well Cat; an' that's how Oi larned Catnip, an' it set me moind aisy, too, fur no Cat that's possesst 'll iver ate inunder the shaddy av the crass."
"Sure you would, and Steelman would have witnesses a-plenty to swear the old man had just drapped in to see if they couldn't talk things over and make a settlement of their troubles." "All right. What's yore programme, then?" asked Bob. "Darned if I know. Say we scout the ground over first."
"Why dat blessed young lady what drapped in among us, as if she'd come right down from Heaven. I was jest a gwine to run down an' ax you to come and see her right away." I did not linger to talk with "Aunty," but went forward to the house. The mother of Blanche met me at the door. She looked very anxious. "How is your daughter now?" I asked.
He drapped down in de bote, and I seed dat I had done sumfin bad. De man was dead, and I wood be hung if dey cotched me. So I drug de man ober de side of de bote into the water, and mashed him down in the mud, an dat man never cum up any more. I didn't go home any more. An arter a while de white man was missin', an de peple gin to talk, an I gin to git skared. Do you see dat house up dar?"
"What do you mean?" he asked sharply. "What are you talking about?" "It's jes' dis, suh: when I gits ovuh to Lucy's house, de fus' thing I sees is a key layin' on de flo'. When I ast her 'bout it, she says it mus' be de key to Number Five she mus' uv drapped it." "I see," said Bristow thoughtfully. "Yes, you're right, Mattie. There are a lot of careless people in the world."
Then he brings his adamantine fist down on the bar to the peril of all glassware. "Yes, sir! Now I was out on that old tub. I was right there when she drapped in the drink. If anybody might make it just as it was, I might mightn't I?" "You might," they answer in admiration of a great man. "Well, I didn't do no such foolish thing as you fellows, did I?" "But why didn't you tell us, Mr. Corkey?"
So, honey, so! Tell yer daddy what's a-skeering of ye"; and the man tried to soothe the child, and learn the cause of her sudden fright. At length she managed to sob out, "It's the devvil, pa; the devvil's in our well, an' he hollered at me, an' I drapped the bucket an' run." At these words Frank sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "What! a voice in the well?
I got as fer as Ike's when I figgered I better let him do it, him bein' a man, so I drapped in at his cabin an' tole him. I didn't know whut else to do. I had to stop 'em from doin' it somehow. Hit wouldn't do no good fer me to beg Pap to drap it, er to rare up on my hind-legs an' make threats ag'inst 'em, ca'se they'd soon put a stop to that.
"Not expecting to meet Mr. Bear, he didn't have any gun along. Mr. Bear was surely on the wah-path that day. He made a bee line for my friend to get better acquainted. Nothing like presence of mind. That cow-puncher got his rope coiled in three shakes of a maverick's tail, his pinto bucking for fair to make his getaway. The rope drapped over Mr.
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