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"Shame on you!" exclaimed Martha indignantly, addressing the spellbound line, staring at her blankly. "Shame on you! To stand there gawkin', an' never raisin' a finger to this poor little fella, an' him just perishin' for the touch of a real mother's hand. Get out of this the whole crowd o' you," and before the force of her righteous wrath they fled as chaff before the wind.
She had often thought out the scene, and her air of indifference was somewhat overdone. The fence was on her ground, so it was, and so were two rows of the potatoes. She could do what she liked with her own, so she could. She didn't ask them to plant potatoes on her ground. If they wanted to stand there gawkin' at her, they wur welcome.
Ump came along after the last of the cattle and burst into a great laugh. "Damme," he said, "you're as purty a pair of muskrats as ever chawed a root. Why don't you put up the bars instead of settin' gawkin' at the cattle! They're all there." "Suppose they were not all there?" said I. "Quiller," said he, "I'm not goin' back over any burnt bridges.
What are you gawkin' and starin' at?" Madison Clay had stared amazed and bewildered horror-stricken. The incidents of the past night for the first time flashed upon him clearly hopelessly!
Now he stopped still in the path, and slowly pointing to each star with his little black forefinger, as he counted them, solemnly repeated the charm: "Star-light, star bright, Seventh star I've seen to-night; I wish I may and I wish I might Have the wish come true I wish to-night." "Come on in, chile! What you gawkin' at?" called Mammy from the doorway. John Jay made no answer.
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