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Says father to me, 'Sam, says he, 'you seed the crowd a-follerin' the winnin' horse, when we came there, didn't you? 'Yes sir, said I, 'I did. 'Well, when colt beat him, no one follered him at all, but come a-crowdin' about HIM. That's popularity, said he, 'soon won, soon lost cried up sky high one minute, and deserted the next or run down; colt will share the same fate.
"Well, when I went up the east pine, the bear follered, an', as there wasn't any too much room between me an' the bear, I crosses over into the birch an' slides down its slippery trunk as tho' it was greased.
I did want to see the Shimpanzee who duz everything but talk. And I thought mebby the reason he wuz so close-mouthed wuz because he hearn so much talkin' he wuz sick on't, as I wuz, and made a sample of himself. But if he did nobody follered it, no indeed!
"Well," said Rube, beginning on his tea, "first of all thar was a mark of your foot where you went in so silent. Then' th' jay started squawkin', an' I got my direction. I follered it, an' hadn't gone far when I sees a balsam branch swayin' where thar was no wind ter stir it. I went straight forward until I began ter think I was goin' wrong, when I smelt smoke.
Well, when colt beat him, no one follered him at all, but come a crowded about HIM. That's popularity, said he, soon won, soon lost cried up sky high one minute, and deserted the next or run down; colt will share the same fate. He'll get beat afore long, and then he's done for. The multitude are always fickle minded.
"And this here old dog," he continued, touching Tally's upturned nose with his knotted fingers, "this here old dog has follered me for for ten years; through floods and droughts, through fair times and and hard mostly hard; and kept me from going mad when I had no mate nor money on the lonely track; and watched over me for weeks when I was drunk drugged and poisoned at the cursed shanties; and saved my life more'n once, and got kicks and curses very often for thanks; and forgave me for it all; and and fought for me.
But I got an ing'on to rub over the bottoms of my shoes so dogs couldn't foller me, an' I got four loaves o' bread and a big piece o' boiled meat, an' crawled into de barn an' tuck dis bag an' buffalo-robe for my bed, an' dragged it into de woods, and tuck my bes' frien', de Norf star, an' follered clean to dis place." "What did you do for something to eat?"
The sheriff laughed, and his shrewd eyes had a kindly, curious gleam. "Next you'll be givin' me a hunch thet you're in a fever an' out of your head." "Jim, I'm not as clear-headed as I might be." "Wal, tell me or not, jest as you like. I seen his tracks follered them. An' Wade, old pard, I've reckoned long ago thar's a nigger in the wood-pile." "Sure. An' you know me.
And on, and on, we follered it dilligently; till for the land's sake! if it didn't lead us to another one of them openwork buildin's, fixed off beautiful, and we could see inside 2 big wells like, with acres of floor seemin'ly on each side of 'em, and crowds of folks a walkin' about and settin' at little tables and most all of 'em a drinkin'.
I knew his motives and Selinda's feelin's, but couldn't break it up, for Selinda had always follered Elder Minkley's orders strict, that he gin her at the altar "Wives, obey your husbands." She didn't rebel outward, but she whispered to me in pitiful axents "I hate to ride that creeter oh, how I hate to!
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