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Updated: June 11, 2025
"She keeps a-teaching the darned kids, and it seems like a good growed-up man can't interest her." "There used to be all the ducks you wanted at the Laparel, but their fool cook's dead stuck on raising turkeys this year." "That must have been mighty close to a drowndin' the schoolmarm got at South Fork." "Why, I guess not. When? She's never spoken of any such thing that I've heard."
There's queer things to be heerd, too, in them parts: cries to wind'ard like a drowndin' man, and you can't never find him; noises right under the keel; bells ringin' off the land like, when you a'n't within five hundred miles of shore; and curus hails out o' ghost-ships that sails agin' wind an' tide. Strange! strange! I declare for't! seems as though I heerd my old mother a-singin' Mear now!"
Somethin' sprung her mind, now I tell ye, Mis' Bond." "I feel to hope we sha'n't find her, I must say," faltered Peggy. It was plain that Mrs. Dow was the captain of this doleful expedition. "I guess she ain't never thought o' drowndin' of herself, Mis' Dow; she's gone off a-visitin' way over to the other side o' South Byfleet; some thinks she's gone to the Centennial even now!"
Well, I just believe he fell in, and he was afeared he was drowndin' and that's why he hollered out. Don't you, mother?" "Yes, I do, Joey." "And you think I done right, don't you, to try to help him, even if it was some resk?" "Oh, yes." "I knowed it was some resk, but I didn't believe it was much, and I kind of thought you'd want me to." "Oh, yes, yes," his mother said. "You did right, Joey.
"Why," says I, "if anybody is a drowndin', you don't ask their consent to be drawed out of the water, you jest jump in, and yank 'em out. And when you see poor little ones, a sinkin' down in the deep waters of ignorance and brutality, why, jest let Uncle Sam reach right down, and draw 'em out."
I wuz willin' t' surrender t' either one that'd save me from being drownded, but none of 'em seemed t' care a durn about my drowndin'; they only wanted t' plug me." "Please save me, Mister," begged Jeff, "an' I'll do anything under the shinin' sun for yo'; I'll jine the Yankee army; I'll lead you' to whar thar's nests o' the pizenest bushwhackers. I'll do anything yo' kin ax me.
From Link's throat were bursting great strangled sobs which tortured his whole body and made his speech a tangled jumble that was not pretty to hear. "Chum!" he wailed brokenly, clutching the dog's huge ruff in both shaky hands. "Chum, old friend! Gawd forgive me! You saved me from drowndin' an' from goin' broke, this night! You been the only friend that ever cared a hang if I was alive or dead!
'What do you want to frighten me like that for? 'I'm drowndin'! Paul answered. 'Not you! said the pretty cousin. She made a movement of disdain, and turned away; but Paul yelled at her with a fear so vivid that she turned again with a white face, and fell upon her knees. 'Oh, Paul, she cried, 'are ee really drownin'? 'Yes, I am, said Paul doggedly. 'These blasted weeds is pullin' me down.
"I knowed that, all right. Sna-a-ap! she went again, and I begun to go down. "I swanny! but that was a warm time for me, Miss it sure was. There was that ol' she b'ar with her mouth as wide open as a church door or, so it looked to Jerry Todd. They say a feller that's drowndin' thinks over all his hull endurin' life when he's goin' down. I believe it. Sure I do.
But I whispered back to him in anxus axents and told him, that I guessed if funeral expenses wuz added to that 5 cents it wouldn't come so cheap, and sez I, "you wont live through many more glasses, and you'll see you wont. Why," sez I, "you are a drowndin' out your insides."
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