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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I ain't scairt o' no man, and ye know it's well's ye wanter know. I'd go in a jiffey, only bein a young man, I don' like tew put myself forrard tew speak for them as is older." "Why don' ye go yerself, Peleg, if ye be so dretful brave!" inquired Israel Goodrich. "That's so, Peleg, why don' ye go?" "I ain't no talker," said Peleg. "Ther's Ezry, he'd orter go, he's sech a good talker."
Where's Cap'n Hammond?" "Well, now, I'll tell ye; I don't know where he is." "You DON'T? Isn't he with you?" "No, he ain't. And he didn't come on the train, nuther. He WAS on it. The conductor told me he see him and set along with him between stations as fur as Cohasset Narrows. But after that he never see hide nor hair of him. Oh, that's so! Here's the mail bag, Ezry."
"Well, what do you know about that!" exclaimed Uncle Henry, his face aglow. "About what, Uncle?" "Why, Ezry Pringle's dead." "Who's Ezry Pringle?" Gilbert asked, feigning an interest he did not feel. "A friend o' mine. Only seventy years old, too. He was right in the prime of life." Gilbert smiled. "What's that paper you're reading?" "The Bangor Daily Commercial, printed at Bangor, Maine.
After breaking ground by a few comments on the points of Perez' horse, Israel opened the subject of the visit, as follows: "Ye see, Perez, I wuz over't Mill-Holler arter a grist o' buckwheat, an me 'n Ezry got ter talkin baout the way things wuz goin in the village. I s'pose ye've hearn o' the goins on." "Very little, indeed," said Perez.
"Are yer wife an' daughter with ye on this trip, Captain?" he asked. "They seem to be out of 'most everything women need. It's a wonder ye didn't get them outfitted in the city. D'ye think this is a department store? Guess they must have been studying Eaton's catalogue." Captain Samuel coughed and shuffled uneasily. "Why, what's on the list, Ezry?" "Didn't ye read it?" "No, never looked at it.
"This foreman and I have some great set-to's. He's a regular old-line party-member. Too dogmatic. Expects to reform everything from deforestration to nosebleed by saying phrases like 'surplus value. Like reading the prayer-book. But same time, he's a Plato J. Aristotle compared with people like Ezry Stowbody or Professor Mott or Julius Flickerbaugh." "It's interesting to hear about him."
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