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Updated: May 11, 2025
All, that is, but one of us. An' that one was Eb Goodnight. "I can see Eb now, how he just walked out o' the line of us standin' there, starin', an' he goes right up to Elspie an' he looks her in the face. "'You're lonesome, s'he, kind o' wonderin'. 'You're lonesome. Like other folks.
You came down river on the 'Eb and Flo, didn't you?" "How did you hear about that?" Donaster quickly queried. "H'm, don't ask me how I find out about things. I generally know what's taking place. Eben Tobin's quite a lad, eh?" "He certainly is. You know him, then?" "Should say so; ever since he was a baby. Guess he has a pretty good idea where that girl is." "He told me he didn't."
'He'll hev t' hev an education er he'll git t' the poorhouse someday sartin. 'Wall he's a good jedge o' gals anyway, said Uncle Eb. As for myself I was now hopelessly confirmed in my dislike of farming and I never traded horses again. Late in August Uncle Eb and I took our Black Hawk stallion to the fair in Hillsborough and showed him for a prize.
Uncle Eb had baked bread for his guests after a fashion of his own on the camp frying-pan, setting the pan on some glowing coals a foot or so from the fire; he had fried unlimited flapjacks, and had cheerfully placed what stores he had at their disposal.
Can hold his breath longer'n any hoss I ever knew! The sum named was that we had paid him for the highly accomplished animal. Dean had the manhood to pay up then and there and said he would send for the other horse, which he never did. 'Guess he won't bother us any more when we stop t' look at the scenery, said Uncle Eb, laughing as Dean drove away.
That day, there come on about the biggest snow-storm that there'd been in them parts sence the oldest man could remember. 'Twas this 'ere fine, siftin' snow, that drives in your face like needles, with a wind to cut your nose off: it made teamin' pretty tedious work. Cap'n Eb was about the toughest man in them parts.
The rear guard of this army of busy workers, the rows of chubby-faced little boys in short-legged pants and long-sleeved aprons, and of rosy-cheeked little girls in linsey dresses and nankeen pantalets, sat on their slab benches, droning mechanically "a-b, ab; e-b, eb," and looked with wonder at the middle rank of this army, adding up long columns of figures or singing the long list of capitals.
Among these were John Wetzel, whose five sons, Lewis, Jacob, Martin, John and George grew to be such frontier fighters that Lewis was called the Boone of West Virginia; there were the McCollochs John, William and Samuel whose sister Elizabeth had married Eb Zane; and another of the Zanes, Andrew. Those were days of large families.
My learning was of small account, for, it must be remembered, I am writing of a time when any degree of scholarship was counted remarkable among the simple folk of Faraway. Hope took singing lessons and sang in church every Sunday. David or Uncle Eb came down for us often of a Saturday and brought us back before service in the morning.
His head and flying mane obscured the rider but I could see the end of a rope swinging in his hand. There was something familiar in the easy high stride of the horse. The cheers came on ahead of him like foam before a breaker. Upon my eyes! it was Black Hawk, with nothing but a plain rope halter on his head, and Uncle Eb riding him.
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