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"You wouldn't have goed away like that, Daddy," she protested, locking her small fingers lovingly under his chin. "Ah, well, I'm old, you see," said Will. "I've learned how to please or should I say how not to displease? you sensitive ladies." "Did Mummy teach you?" asked Peggy with interest. Will laughed with his eyes on his wife's face.
Ye remember, Frank, thar war a goodish grit o' valleyables in the shanty the saynorita's jeweltry an' the like. Jest possyble, in the skrimmage, whiles they war making capter o' thar prisoners, this ugly varmint tuk devantage o' the confusion to secret a whun o' thar gimcracks, an's now goed back arter 'em." "It seems probable enough.
"No no Miss Letty," replied the man hastily, "Ho! no, not dead, but goed away; nigh broked her heart when she losted you; git berry sick; t'ought she was go for die, but she no die. She jis turn de corner and come round, an' when she git bedder she hoed away." "Where did she go to?" asked Robin, anxiously. "To Bumby," said old George. "To where?" "Bumby." "I suppose you mean Bombay?" said Sam.
An', durn me, that's the hoof-mark o' the mule as carried my Concheter. Capting Haynes! Kumrades! No use botherin' 'bout hyar any longer. Them we want to kum up wi' are goed north 'long this trail as leads by the river bank." Not another word is needed. The Rangers, keen of apprehension and quick to arrive at conclusions, at once perceive the justness of those come to by their old comrade.
Finally, he swore that he would have nothing more to do with such a squatting, bundling, guessing, questioning, swapping, pumpkin-eating, molasses-daubing, shingle-splitting, cider-watering, horse-jockeying, notion-peddling crew that they might stay at Fort Goed Hoop and rot, before he would dirty his hands by attempting to drive them away; in proof of which he ordered the new-raised troops to be marched forthwith into winter quarters, although it was not as yet quite midsummer.
Tolly goed " and he trailed off into his baby jargon which no one could understand, but he pointed to the lake. "What did he say when he went away; when he tied the rope around you?" "Bye-bye." "What else?" Diogenes' intentions to be communicative were certainly all right, but not a word was intelligible.
And he told Lucille tales of the Sword and of how he loved it! "If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you'll just go like my pore young sister goed," observed Cook in a warning voice, as Lucille paused to get her second wind for the second draught.
"Here lies an old woman of Bettws-y-CoED; Wherever she went, it was there that she goED. She frequently said: 'My own row have I hoED, And likewise the church water-mark have I toED. I'm therefore expecting to reap what I've sowED, And go straight to heaven from Bettws-y-CoED."
Down I goed upon my knees to un, an' I smoothed away the snow, all tremblun, an' there was a moan, as ef 't was a-livun. "'O Lard! I said, 'who's this? Be this one of our men? "But how could it? So I scraped the snow away, but 't was easy to see 't was smaller than a man. There was n' no man on that dreadful place but me!
Whether the sogers hev goed down inter the valley or no, they're sartin to hev left some o' the party ahind, by way o' keepin' century. Let's picket the animals out hyar, an' creep forrad afut. That'll gie us a chance o' seeing in, 'ithout bein' seen." The mules being disposed of as Walt had suggested, the two continue their advance.
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