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"Skittish devil," remarked the landlord, as the colt quivered under the hand he laid upon him. "He's skittish," said Bartley. The landlord retired as far back as the door, and regarded the colt critically. "Well, I s'pose you've always used him too well ever to winded him, but dumn 'f he don't blow like it." "Look here, Simpson," said Bartley, very quietly.
It's too dumn like what we have been through ourselves, as fur as heard from." A shout of laughter went up from most of the crowd, but the Altrurian did not seem to see any fun in it. "Well," he resumed, "I will tell you, as well as I can, what Altruria is like; but, in the first place, you will have to cast out of your minds all images of civilization with which your experience has filled them.
"I thought I heard sleigh-bells. But I guess it wa'n't. Well, sir, as I was sayin', they fetched that fellow into camp with both feet frozen to the knees Dumn 'f it wa'n't bells!"
But he told me about that note he left for me, and that had the money in it for the fun'al " Elbridge stopped for a moment before he added, "He said he'd telegraph just which train he wanted me to meet him when he was comin' back.... Why, dumn it! I guess I must be crazy. We can settle it in half an hour's time or an hour or two at the outside and no need to worry about it.
He winked a good-natured disdain over the rim of the goblet which he tilted on his lips. "And give up my chances here?" he said, as he set the goblet down. "Well, that's so!" said Kinney, responding to the sense of the wink. "I'll tell you what, Bartley, I didn't know as you'd speak to me when I rung your bell to-night. But thinks I to myself, 'Dumn it! look here!
"Well, sir," said Kinney, with a certain reluctance, "I undertook to provision the camp on spec, last winter, and well, you know, I always run a little on food for the brain," Bartley broke into a reminiscent cackle, and Kinney smiled forlornly, "and thinks I, 'Dumn it, I'll give 'em the real thing, every time. And I got hold of a health-food circular; and I sent on for a half a dozen barrels of their crackers and half a dozen of their flour, and a lot of cracked cocoa, and I put the camp on a health-food basis.
"All right, Cynthia. I'll come down and stay with you. You got everything we want here?" "Yes. And I'll go up and get the breakfast for them in the morning. There won't be much to do." "Dumn 'em! Let 'em get their own breakfast!" said Whitwell, recklessly. "And, father," the girl went on as if he had not spoken, "don't you talk to Mrs. Durgin about it, will you?" "No, no. I sha'n't speak to her.
"Do you think I better go and look after things a little?" Cynthia asked. "Well, you no need to," said her father. He got down the planchette, and labored with it, while his children returned to Frank's lessons. "Dumn 'f I can make the thing work," he said to himself at last. "I can't git any of 'em up. If Jackson was here, now!"
And then I'll take it up to Boston with me, and seek my fortune with it." "Well, sir, I'll do it," said Kinney, fired with the poetry of the idea. "I'll post you! Dumn 'f I don't wish I could write! Well, I did use to scribble once for an agricultural paper; but I don't call that writin'. I've set down, well, I guess as much as sixty times, to try to write out what I know about loggin' "
"Yes," she said, with an indrawn sigh, and she began to sob piteously. The sight of her grief seemed to kindle her father's wrath to a flame. "Any way you look at him, he's been a dumn blackguard; that's what he's been. You're a million times too good for him; and I " She sobbed herself quiet, and then she said: "Father, I don't like to go up there to-night. I want to stay here."
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