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An' a jail in these diggin's, my beauties, is a thing that ain't no joke, 'cause they shets you up below ground where ye has only your natural frien's the rats fer playmates, rats as big as dogs an' hungry as sharks, as ye might say. Sometimes the cap'n of these here ports fergits ye 'specially if they's frien's er mine.
A neatly-dressed child, in a vast, white sun-bonnet, ran toward me as I came in sight, but presently paused, and returned at the same pace. On reaching the door I was met by a stern-looking woman of thirty-odd, to whom I introduced myself as an old friend of Mr. O'Halloran's. "Deed he hes plenty o' frien's," replied the woman drily. "Are ye gunta stap the night?" "Well, Mr.
A wrong to both, you say, perhaps; but if so, irreparable, and never to be recompensed. Never? "Yoh must go, my little girl," he said at last. Whatever he did must be done quickly. She came up, combing the thin gray hairs through her fingers. "Father, I dunnot understan' what it is, rightly. But stay with me, stay, father!" "Yoh've a many frien's, Lo," he said, with a keen flash of jealousy.
"If you have flour in the barrel and meat in the pot, your wife can get along without receiving lady callers, can't she?" "But they won't come ainyhow, jedge," replied Williams, with an air of still deeper stupefaction. "Noner ma wife's frien's ner noner ma frien's 'll come near ma res'dence." "Well, let them stay home if they are such silly people."
When yo'al gits out o' de cas'le, jes' yo'al sneak roun' to de right, an' dere'll be frien's dere." Uncle Billy again put a warning finger to his lips. Hal opened his mouth to ask a question, but with a soft "sh-h" Uncle Billy silenced him. Then, after several furtive glances about, the old negro stole quickly from the cell, closing the door softly behind him.
He stopped at the nearest farmhouse and sent help back." "Even in America," commented the minister, "the frien's of the injured man might see that his hurt was avenge. The man who caused the accident should be made to suffer." "Oh, no," said Orme. "If the matter were pressed at all, the correct thing to do would be to arrest the man with the broken leg. He had stolen the papers in the first place.
Are not we the children of this night? Are not we the frien's of the night peoples?" Bryde nodded, still looking. "Then this is mine all this night, this good night. Come." On the dry bracken, a little way from the roadside, he spread his coat to make a resting-place for her. "Now," she cried, "tell me." "This is not right, Helen," and then
There was an air of dignity about him as he said: "Dere's plenty t'ing in dis worl' we don' get pay' for. You didn't 'spect no pay yesterday when you run de W'ite 'Orse for save dis gal an' her papa, did you? No. Wal, I'm woodsman, river-man; I ain't dam' stampeder. Dis is my countree, we're frien's together long tam; I love it an' it loves me.
I used to go 60 miles out on de Gulf o' Mexico, as 'terpreter on dem big ships dat come from France. Dat was 'fore I done forgot my French talk what I was raised to speak. "De white folks is mighty good to me. De riches' man in Picayune, he recognizes me an' gives me two bits or fo' bits. I sho' has plenty o' good frien's.
"Ah, my frien's," he said softly, "mebbe it mek you mad dog, dose many bites. Mebbe all mad dog, sacredam! Wot you t'ink, eh, Perrault?" The courier shook his head dubiously. With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break out among his dogs.
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