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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Look here, Mollie," said Eben awkwardly at last, "are you going to stand up for prayers to-night?" "I I can't as long as father acts this way," answered Mollie, in a choked voice. "I I want to, Eb, and Mirry and Bob want me to, but I can't. I do hope that the evangelist won't come and talk to me special to-night. I always feels as if I was being pulled two different ways, when he does."
For my own part I did not know what I should buy. I wanted a real gun most of all and my inclination oscillated between that and a red rocking horse. My mind was very busy while I sat in silence. Presently I rose and went to Uncle Eb and whispered in his ear. 'Do you think I could get a real rifle with two shilin'? I enquired anxiously.
My mother was my oracle during the first six years of childhood, resolving my difficulties and answering my questions. I was happy very happy! and still look back to those days with indescribable pleasure and satisfaction. I had no tasks. I was not pestered with A.B. C., nor ab. eb. ib. From things my parents chiefly taught me my first lessons, and they have been as durable as life.
'You shifless cuss! I'll put a kink in your neck fer you if ye don't walk up, said Uncle Eb, as he looked back at the dog, in a temper wholly unworthy of him. We had crossed a deep valley and were climbing a long hill in the dusky twilight. 'Willie, said Uncle Eb, 'your eyes are better'n mine look back and see if anyone's comin'. 'Can't see anyone, I answered.
He held hard for a jiffy and then stumbled and let go yelling like mad. The pole hit the water with a splash and went out of sight like a diving frog. I brought it well under the foam and driftwood. Deep Hole resumed its calm, unruffled aspect. Mose went running toward Uncle Eb. ''S a whale! he shouted. 'Ripped the pole away quicker'n lightnin'. 'Where is it? Uncle Eb asked.
We sat listening as the sound grew fainter, and when it ceased entirely Uncle Eb said he must have got to the road. After a little the light of the morning began sifting down through the tree-tops and was greeted with innumerable songs. 'He done noble, said Uncle Eb, patting the old dog as he rose to poke the fire. 'Putty good chap I call 'im! He can hev half o' my dinner any time he wants it.
It came out that the policemen had been sent there from the town on the mainland, at the request of Mr. Littlefield, who owned the house. He had gone away the day before, and as there had been two burglaries in Bailey's Harbor, or its vicinity, he did not like to leave his place unprotected. Eb and Gregory the Gauger wished to enter the house, "an' go over it to see if it's all right."
We heard then a quick stir in the old house a loud and ghostly rattle it seems now as I think of it like that made by linen shaking on the line. Uncle Eb took a step backward as if it had startled him. 'Guess it's nuthin' to be 'fraid of; he said, feeling in the pet of his coat He had struck a match in a moment. By its flickering light I could see only a bit of rubbish on the floor.
I noticed that, an' laughed to myself, kind o' pityin'. But Elspie, she never noticed. An' when it come time to lock up, I 'tended to my wrist an' let them two do the lockin'. They seemed to like to I could tell that. An' Elspie, she let Eb out the front door herself, like they was rill folks.
'You look good enough in anything that's respectable, I said. 'Kind o' wanted to look a leetle extry good, as ye might say, said Uncle Eb, groping in his big carpet-bag. 'Hope, she's terrible proud, an' if they should hev a leetle fiddlin' an' dancin' some night we'd want t' be as stylish as any on em. B'lieve I'll go'n git me a spang, bran' new suit, anyway, 'fore we go up t' Fuller's.
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