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Updated: June 15, 2025
Cawcawee! cawcawee! kind of an aggravatin' holler! But I like it, ruther. It allers 'minds me of a bustin' good feller that was deown here from Canada once". "How remind you of him?" inquired John. "Well, he cam' deown on bissiniss, but he ran afowl o' me, and we was eout in the woods together, consid'able. He used to set eoutside the camp, bright, starlight nights, and sing songs, and sech.
One morning, some days later, Peleg Hopkins came in with a grin and said, "The's some folks eout in front wants you to come eout an' see 'em." "Who are they?" asked John, who for the moment was in the back room and had not seen the carriage drive up. "The two Verjoos gals," said Peleg with another distortion of his freckled countenance.
Lubricated with a sense of peace and blessing, I arose. "Ye're jest like me," gurgled Captain Leezur; "ye don't feel easy in a cheer! Ye wanter be eout on the old log, don't ye?" "Yes," said I. "This isn't quite like." "We're nateral twin-brothers!" he exclaimed, following me to the door. There he looked cautiously backward.
"Why, hang it, a chance to live an' dew abeout what I want tew. The moose an' wolves an' wildcats hev all ben hunted eout o' that kentry. Thar wa'nt no kind ev a chance there. So I cam' here". "You have a wife, I suppose, Mr. Micah?" "Wife! no. Do ye spose I want to hev a woman kep' skeered a most to death abeout me, all the time? I'm a fishin' an' huntin good part o' the year.
I've seen a fifty-bar'l bull make the purtiest fight I ever hearn tell ov a fight thet lasted twenty hours, stove three boats, 'n killed two men. Then, again, I've seen a hundred 'n fifty bar'l whale lay 'n take his grooel 'thout hardly wunkin 'n eyelid never moved ten fathom from fust iron till fin eout.
"The truth is, Harris," said Edwards, looking him steadily in the eye, "I am in a devil of a pinch, that's the truth of it; and I am taking gambling chances on this thing. I only hope you may earn your third of the ranch. I'll not grudge it to you, if you do." "Thank ye, sir. An' when them papers is made eout, I'll be off."
But the medical folks in charge chose to permit the mother to nurse the child, and she not being able to supply proper nutriment, the poor little innocent faded if that word be appropriate for what couldn't be seen, and finally "gin eout;" and the machinery, after some abortive joggles and turns, stood hopelessly still.
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