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"You will find, my ambitious young friend," he said, "that it is better in the long run to rest occasionally. Nature requires it, and, as you yourself have said, Nature is the true standard to follow." "Nature don't rest," he doggedly retorted. "Trees don't rest from growin'!" "They do, indeed," declared the Colonel, not quite sure of his ground, but willing to venture it.
But bein' he's plumb drunk, as you readily discerns, it keeps up a barrier ag'in growin' intimate with this party; an' ontil Toothpick opens on him, his intercourse with Wolfville is nacherally only formal.
You see, that stick was growin' shorter all the time. It ain't as easy as you think. The panther'd slack back an' hunch down an' spit, an' it was mighty lively in duckin' the stick. An' you never knowed when it'd jump. It was caught by the hind leg, which was curious, too, an' it had some slack I'm tellin' you.
They looked like two monsters walking back and forth before the warriors. "The seed we planted is shorely growin' up good an' strong," whispered Shif'less Sol. More and more warriors joined in the chant of the medicine men. The two saw Alloway gesture furiously toward them, and then they saw Yellow Panther and Red Eagle shake their heads. The two interpreted the movements easily.
D'ee see? . . . There's boys, like your nephew, young Obed Pearce, as goes to fight for their conscience; an' there's boys, like young Seth Minards, as goes to fight despite their conscience; but for me, that am growin' elderly, I go, maybe with a touch o' the old country, in contempt o' my kind."
My boy" Blaze jabbed a rigid finger into the speaker's ribs, as if he expected a ground-squirrel to scuttle forth "we've got steers in this valley that are damn near the size of the whole state of Rhode Island. If they keep on growin' I doubt if you could fatten one of 'em in Delaware without he'd bulge over into some neighboring commonwealth. It's the God's truth!
At last I couldn't stand it no longer. "`Mister Ornithologist' says I. "`Well, says he. "`There's a pecooliar beast in them parts, says I, `'as has got some pretty stiff an' settled habits. "`Is there? says he, wakin' up again quite fresh, though he had been growin' sleepy. "`Yes, says I, `an' it's a obstinate sort o' brute that won't change its habits for nobody.
And I should have took sights of comfort viewin' the magnificent seens spread out and growin' and changin' every minute if I hadn't had to kep' one eye onto Josiah Allen all the time, or as you may say two eyes, one my own gray orb and the other the eye of my specs.
I use' to see 'em! Dat wuz when dey wuz growin' up like. "Den ole marster he run for Congress, an' ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin he wuz put up to run 'g'inst ole marster by de Dimicrats; but ole marster he beat 'im. Yo' know he wuz gwine do dat! Co'se he wuz! Dat made ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin mighty mad, and dey stopt visitin' each udder reg'lar, like dey had been doin' all 'long.
But he comes runnin' up to them cryin' children an' I wish't you could 'a' seen his smile Abel's smile was always kind o' like his soul growin' out of his face, rill thrifty. "'Why, you little kiddies! s'e, 'cryin' when you're all nice an' warm! Le's see now, he says grave. 'Anybody here know how to play Drop-the-handkerchief? If you do, he tells 'em, 'stand up quick!
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