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Like a young hoss," he remarked, "if he's sound an' kind, an' got gumption, I'd sooner break him in myself 'n not fur's my use goes an' if I can't, nobody can, an' I get rid on him. You understand?" "Yes," said John with a smile. "Wa'al," continued David, "I liked your letter, an' when you come I liked your looks. Of course I couldn't tell jest how you'd take holt, nor if you an' me 'd hitch.
I know you're plannin' to leave us all and go away somewheres and that he told you to go, and all that. I know what you've been doin' up here to-night. Fur's that goes," she added, with a little catch in her breath and a wave of her hand toward the open trunk and suitcase upon the floor, "I wouldn't need to know, I could SEE." Albert was surprised and confused.
"Nor I," agreed the Cap'n, frankly; "not so fur as the details appear to me just now. But there's something about him that gives me hopes." He pulled out his wallet, licked his thumb, and peeled off a bill. "Bodge, so fur's I can see now, you seem to be a good investment. I don't know just yet how much it is goin' to take to capitalize you, but here's ten dollars for an option.
"Nascaupees might a been here," offered Bob, having in mind the stories he had heard of them, and feeling now that he was almost amongst them. "No, Nascaupees 'd have no use for a stove. They'd ha' burned th' tilt. 'Tis Micmac John, an' he be here t' steal fur. 'Tis t' steal fur's what he be after.
"'S fur's I know it's all right, only it hain't got no votes, and votes is necessary in politics." "Licker enters into this here campaign, don't it?" "Backbone of it." "Seems like these Prohibition fellers ought to take a hand. Any of 'em in Coldriver?" "Don't seem like I ever heard speak of one." "Could be, couldn't there? 'Tain't impossible?"
As fur's we know he didn't go away at all. We're only taking his brother's word for it." "Why, Mr. Gallup! You're quite as bad as Betty. One would think to hear you and her talk that Cap'n Amazon was a fratricide." "Huh?" "That he had murdered his brother," explained the girl. "That's fratter side, is it? Well, I don't take no stock in such foolishness.
That young Carver feller shook the dust the mud, I mean of our roads off his shoes this mornin'. He went away on the up train." Here was news. "The up train?" I repeated. "You mean he has gone for good?" "I should call it for good, for our good, anyhow. Yes, he's gone. Went to the depot in Colton's automobile. His majesty went with him fur's the platform.
I come fer the town of Whitcom. An' then he spunked up some an' says, 'I don't give a darn, he says, 'what comes of 'Lish, an' I don't know nobody as does, fur's he's person'ly concerned; but he's got to be a town charge less 'n you take 'm off our hands. "Dave turned to me an' says, jest as if he meant it, 'How 'd you like to have him here, Polly?
I've got to take 'em down for ye fur's I can see," said Ferris, looking sly, and proceeding swiftly from persuasion to final arrangements. "It's some like gittin' a tooth hauled; you kind o' dread it, but when 't is done you feel like a man. I ain't said nothin' to nobody, but I hoped you'd do what you was a-mind to with your own property.
"That was a fine shot!" Charley shouted, quite beside himself with excitement, and now breathing freely again. "He'll be a fine surprise for Dad!" exclaimed Toby, surveying the carcass with vast pride. "Won't he and Mother be glad of un! The fur's not prime, but 'twill be fair, and 'tis the first fur we gets this year!" "He won't kill any more of our rabbits!"
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