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Updated: July 18, 2025
"Ye allers was a funny gal, Tessibel," ruminated Mrs. Longman. "Now Ezy says that yer takin' a likin' to such things as toads, lizards and snakes, shows as how ye needs some one to help ye. God'll make ye a happy mother if ye'll keep yer nose low in the air, and not think too much of yer betters." Ezra, then, had told his mother of the student. A frown deepened on the girl's brow.
"Nope; I ain't a-sayin' nothin' ... I goes home to my mammy." If Tess had never seen the hue of death upon a human face, she saw it now. The boy rose totteringly, and Tessibel, with a tender expression in her eyes, opened the door. "Ezy, I's sorry for ye! I's sorry that I slicked the dirty dishrag in yer face. Ye forgives me, don't ye, Ezy?" "Yep." And Ezra stumbled away.
To Ben she would not open, but, glancing at the window, she saw Ezra Longman's face pressed against the pane. Slipping back the lock, she flung open the door. "Ezy, ye air allers a-comin' when I wants to read the Bible. I tells ye to stay away from the shanty, and ye won't!" Would the babe remain quiet until the pale squatter boy had departed?
She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm. Major Warfield came skurrying home from the mill, grasping his bridle with one hand and holding his hat on with the other. Meeting poor old Ezy in the shrubbery, he stormed out upon him with: "What are you lounging there for, you old idiot! You old sky-gazing lunatic!
Don't you see that we are going to have an awful blow! Begone with you and see that the cattle are all under shelter! Off, I say, or," he rode toward Bill Ezy, but the old man, exclaiming: "Yes, sir yes, sir! In coorse, sir!" ducked his head and ran off in good time.
Condiment came out "with a smile on her lip and a tear in her eye," and saying: "Well, Miss Capitola, I'm paid off and discharged also." "What for?" "For aiding and abetting the rebels; in a word, for trying to comfort poor Ezy and Wool." "And are you going?" "Certainly not; I shan't budge; I would not treat the old man so badly as to take him at his word." And, with a strange smile, Mrs.
A change gradually came over Myra: cunning grew in the faded eyes and determination straightened the thin shoulders, as she led her brother into the hut. "Mammy," she called softly, opening the door, "here air Ezy!" "Fetch him in," cried Satisfied. Mrs. Longman sank weakly into a chair.
Finally, she took a piece of paper and a pencil from the shelf. "Mammy," she wrote, "I's a-goin' to save Ben Letts. Ezy tells ye about it, as how Ben Letts killed the gamekeeper it werent Orn Skinner. I takes the brat cause it air Bens I luves yer and Satisfied."
"That damn Ezy and Ben air worser than fleas. But I air a-believin' that they won't be comin' back just yet." Tess closed the door of her shanty, looked about to see if anyone were watching her movements, then she, too, broke into the high weeds that surrounded the running brook under the mud cellar. Her little ruse in giving the child to its mother delighted her.
"Where air Myry's ma?" asked Tessibel presently. "Back there, in Ezy's bed. She air sick, and so air Mammy Letts." "Ezy were buried yesterday," ruminated Tess. "Yep, and Myry be a-goin' to the same place. Ma and me air alone." There was something strangely pathetic in the quiet words, in the stolid, ugly face with its hard lines, in the mouth twitching at the corners as he spoke.
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