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Updated: June 20, 2025
"No doubt," said the Captain, paying no attention to the last remark, "I see, and believe, that at some time or other the ice here must have been in a flowin' state. I'm too well aware o' the shape of waves an' eddies, cross-currents and ripples, to doubt or deny that but any man with half an eye can see that it's anchored hard and fast now.
He laid hold o' me, that cub did it was like his mother and himself together; an' the years flowin' in an' peterin' out, an' him gettin' older, an' always jest the same. Always on rock-bottom, always bright as a dollar, an' we livin' at Black Nose Lake, layin' up cash agin' the time we was to go South, an' set up a house along the railway, an' him to git married.
"Oh, but Reginald Heber is so innocent, so pure-hearted; almost an angel," sez she, "I have been so afraid that he wuz too perfect for this sinful world!" And her tears flowed afresh. Well, I see I couldn't plug up this flowin' fountain of tears with sympathy or reason, so we mogged along.
'So does mine, he says." "Well, th' dillygates met Mack an' they had a pleasant chat. 'Will ye, says they, 'inthervene an' whistle off th' dogs iv war? they says. 'Whisper, says Mack, th' tears flowin' down his cheeks.
Oh, is it nothing to look upon the green earth itself,and all its beauty to hear the happy songs and the joyful voices of all that are about us the birds singing sweetly, the music of the river flowin' to see the sun shinin', and to hear the rustlin' of the trees in the warm winds of summer to see and hear all this, and to feel that a young heart is brakin', or already broken within us that we are goin' to lave it all all we loved and to go down into the clay under us?
Why, I mind las' yeah when I was ridin' fences foh thu C Bar I got to thinkin' haow foolish it were o' me to keep hankerin' after thu delusions o' thu Alcazah, an' to keep wantin' to go oveh theah simultaneous an' waste my hawd eahned money on thu see-ductions o' thu flowin' bowl. So I braces up, an' says to thu devil o' temptation, kinda contemptuous-like, 'Hit thu back trail, Satan!
Sez I, "To think of all the evils that are a flowin' out of that place, Josiah, and you could stop it to once if you wuz a minter." "But," sez Josiah, "Ury sez that if it wuzn't sold there by Cap'n Bardeen the factory folks would go over into Zoar and git worse likker sold by low down critters."
The animal is tamed here; he is fatter than the wild one, but he hante the spirit. "You have seen-Old Clay in a pastur, a racin' about, free from harness, head and tail up, snortin', cavortin', attitudinisin' of himself. Mane flowin' in the wind, eye-ball startin' out, nostrils inside out a'most, ears pricked up.
"Very interesting, Shon," he said, as he rose, puffing hard till his face was in a cloud of smoke. "You had many adventures together, I suppose," he continued. "Adventures we had and sufferin' bewhiles, and fun, too, to the neck and flowin' over." "You'll spin us a long yarn about them another night, Shon"? said the Honourable.
An', mind this, when you pray to Heaven, ax for gold an' diamonds, ax for houses an' lands, ax for the fat of the airth; an' ax loud. No harm in axin'. Awnly doan't pitch your prayers tu dirt low, for ban't the hardness of a thing stops God. You 'm as likely or onlikely to get a big answer as a little. See the blessin' flowin' in streams for some folks!
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