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"Nothin' but a black speck fur across thar. It come into sight only a minute ago. Fust I thought it wuz a shadder, then I thought it wuz a floatin' log, an' now I do believe it's a canoe. What do you make uv it, Henry?" Henry looked long. "It is a canoe," said he at last, "and there's a man in it. They're floating with the stream down our way."
Lord, in such a benign, fatherly tone that one would have found it difficult to believe that he ever spoke harshly, "don't be afraid of water, for there's where the profit comes in. Always have a piece of lemon peel floatin' on the top of every glass, an' it tastes just as good to people as if it cost twice as much."
"'Which thar's no doubts floatin' in anybody's mind on that subject, says Dan Boggs, 'but I'd shore admire to know who this party is, an' where he's headin' to.
There was silence, and the men stood with half-bowed heads, as if some solemn service were being performed that they did not quite understand, but in which they fully sympathized. Then Jasper Kemp said, softly: "Amen!" And after a pause: "I ain't any sort of a Christian myself, but I just can't stand it to see a parson floatin' round that don't even know the name of the firm he's workin' for.
The flush and gasp told the story well enough, quite well enough: the maid was dying of consumption. "Me lights is floatin', zur," she answered. "Your lights?" "Ay, zur," laying a hand on her chest. "They're floatin' wonderful high. I been tryin' t' kape un down; but, zur, 'tis no use, at all." With raised eyebrows the doctor turned to me.
"Because you begun by sayin' you was a relation of mine. I've got a good many relations floatin' around loose and there ain't nary one of 'em ever come to see me unless 'twas to get money. If I give money to all my relations that asked for it I'd be a dum sight poorer'n I be now." Thankful was by this time thoroughly angry. "Look here," she snapped.
Floatin' round with your arms full of sunshine oh, you thought you was puttin' something over on the rest of us what?" "Cut it out!" Jack retorted, flinging the words over his shoulder. "Don't talk to me. Road's flopping around like a snake with its head cut off " He laughed apologetically, his eyes staring straight ahead over the lowered windshield. "Aw, step on her, Jack!
Floatin' round like eelgrass up the creek. I s'pose it's sunk int' some kind of bottom of fact, as t' who started the rumor, but it's jest slippin' around now, on top." "'T is, hey? Well, 't ain't the fust time I've clutched eelgrass an' tore it from its muddy bottom.
"So I'll hear it to my dyin' day his voice a floatin' down to me from up above thar', somewhar', askin' them questions that nobody could ever answer like, so soon, he answered 'em for himself and when I looked up, thar' was Harvey, with his hammer dropped, and his mouth wide open, a starin' up thar', and the tears rollin' down his cheeks like he was a baby. "They didn't sing no more, after that.
After bein' in ell for fifteen days an' now e wants us to sail this floatin' ell to sea again?" The captain could not control them, but McCoy's gentle presence seemed to rebuke and calm them, and the muttering and cursing died away, until the full crew, save here and there an anxious face directed at the captain, yearned dumbly toward the green clad peaks and beetling coast of Pitcairn.
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