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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Jest my infernal luck," gasped Shorty. "I would talk, an' I got some down the wrong way. "Lord, it's burnin' my lights out. Gi' me a drink o' water, somebody." One of the children handed him a gourdful of water, while he continued to cough and sputter and blame himself for talking when he was drinking. The woman handed the cup to Si, who feared that the liquor might be poisoned or drugged.
Her eye lighting on a gourdful of water on the puncheon table, she tore a strip from her dress and washed and bound me deftly. The bullet was in the flesh, and gave me no great pain. "Lie there, ye imp!" she commanded, when she had finished. "Some one's under the bed," said I, for I had heard a movement.
Cephas got a gourdful of water from the pail in the sink, and carried it carefully over to the table. "Horses are the exception," he returned, with dignified asperity. "There always are exceptions. What I was comin' at was I'd been kind of wrong in my reasonin'. That is, I 'ain't reasoned far enough. I was right so far as I went."
At the same instant Cunora saw what had been done; and uttering a single piercing scream, fell fainting to the ground. Heaped in front of the two prisoners was a large pile of pebbles. There were thousands upon thousands in the heap. Before each man, at a distance of a foot, was a large gourdful of water.
"When you track dirt into the house, I can wash the floor," she said. "But I can't get to the ceiling so easy. It needs a new coat of whitewash, but there's no use in doing it if your head ain't clean." "All right," said Abe meekly. "Take a gourdful of soap with you," said Sarah. "And mind you, no reading until you finish washing your hair."
I had a grim sense of amusement on finding that the old woman was not deaf, for she went out, and presently came back with a gourdful, which I eagerly drank. An hour later the graybacks returned, and finding that I was too weak to walk, carried me out and laid me on the bottom of a common cart, with which they set off on a trot.
She poured out a glass of water, and lifted his head, but he frowned, and exclaimed "I won't have it in a tumbler. Mother, make Harry bring me a gourdful fresh from the spring. I say, send Buddie for some." She humoured the whim, walked out of the room, and paused in the passage.
Content with the wild excitement of his daily round of duty and recreation, with his meal of dried beef and cassava-cake, washed down, it is likely, with a gourdful of guarapo, a species of rum, in comparison with which the New England beverage is innocent and weak, and with the occasional recurrence of some such turbulent festival as that of the branding, he cares nothing for the future, and bestows no thought upon the past.
Sometimes he dashes into a village, drinks a gourdful of aguardiente with the admiring guests at the pulpería, and spurs away again into obscurity, until at length the increasing number of his desgracias tempts the mounted emissaries of justice to pursue him, in the hope of extra reward.
"Here," he shouted to one of the peasants who were gathered round the crocodile, "one of you run down to the water and bring up a gourdful." "I don't think she is dead," Amuba said. "It seemed to me that the crocodile had seized her by the leg." "We must carry her somewhere," Jethro said, "and get some woman to attend to her. I will see if there is a hut near."
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