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En de minute dis man sot eyes on Mahaly, he 'lowed he wuz gwine ter hab her fer hisse'f. He come up side er her en 'mence' ter talk ter her; but she didn' paid no 'tention ter 'im, fer she wuz studyin' 'bout Dan, en she did n' lack dis nigger's looks nohow. So w'en she got ter whar she wuz gwine, dis yer man wa'n't no fu'ther 'long dan he wuz w'en he sta'ted.
"'During the terms of the last three Kentucky governors," he read, "'over thirteen hundred criminals have been pardoned, five hundred of them being for murder or manslaughter. It says fu'ther on," the old man added, "that pardonin' is jes' as frequent now as it ever was.
Come." They moved quickly to it across the larger room. "They are all here." Her glance had swept the walls. "In the best light, too." She moved eagerly from one to the other. "See how well they are hung." Uncle William's eye surveyed them. "Middlin' plumb," he assented. "That fu'ther one looks to me a leetle mite off the level. It's the one o' my house, too."
For if Thornton knew him, then no less did Clayton know Thornton. And Buck had said that he was going to help him. "I rode them two hundred miles getting here, me all shot to hell that away. An' I rode into your camp las' night to leave the letter. An' I guess if it had been half a mile fu'ther I wouldn't never have made it back." "Why didn't you come in at my cabin? I'd have fixed you up there."
Las' night she must 'a' got out er bed an' run away w'en eve'ybody wuz soun' asleep, fer dis mawnin' she wuz gone, an' none er us knows whar she is." "Has any search been made for her?" "Yas, suh, my husban' an' de child'en has been huntin' roun' all de mawnin', an' he's gone ter borry a hoss now ter go fu'ther.
"Me and Amanda and Teacher walked to Buckarts Station," Rebecca answered. "Did yous, now?" "Up the pike a piece was all the fu'ther I felt fur goin'," continued Eebecca, in a rather injured tone; "but Amanda she was so fur seein' oncet if that fellah with those black MUStache was at the blacksmith's shop yet, at Buckarts!
Japheth's answer was a good-natured laugh and a tacit refusal to take either. "You cayn't rile me thataway, boy," he said. "I've knowed you a heap too long. Git in the fu'ther rut and take your medicine like a man." Since there appeared to be no help for it, Tom set his horse in motion again, and Japheth gave him a mile of silence in which to cool down.
They 'ain't never been fu'ther from home than Cisco that's thirty mile. I'll pay you for your time." Gray's hearty acceptance of the first and his prompt refusal of the second proposal pleased the speaker. "Bein' rich is mighty fine, but " Gus Briskow shook his head doubtfully.
"I wrote off some of it." "Well," sighed Miss Margaret, "let us hear what you have done." Absalom unfolded a sheet of paper and laboriously read: "GIRLS "The only thing I took particular notice to, about Girls, is that they are always picking lint off each other, still." He stopped and slowly folded his paper. "But go on," said Miss Margaret. "Read it all. "That's all the fu'ther I got."
"She's got a high fever. That's 'a all the fu'ther I can go now. What it may turn to till morning, I can't tell TILL morning. Give her these powders every hour, without she's sleeping. That's the most that she needs just now." "Yes, if she can keep them powders down," said Mr. Getz, doubtfully. "She can't keep nothin' with her." "Well, keep on giving them, anyhow. She's a pretty sick child."
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