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A part of his life he spent in the wild places; the other part he spent in writing about the things he found there. His companion was five years his junior in age, but had the better of him by six inches in length of anatomy, if those additional inches could be called an advantage. Bruce thought they were not. "The devil of it is I ain't done growin' yet!" he often explained.
All of them?" cried Janice, laughing at his vehemence, yet tearful, too. "Well all I can," declared her cousin. "And there ain't many I can't, you bet." "If you was as fond of work as ye be of fightin', Marty," returned Mr. Day, drily, "you sartin sure'd be a wonderful feller." "Ya-as," drawled his son but in a very low tone, "maw says I'm growin' more'n more like you, every day."
I snooped around and about a quarter mile from the Folly there is a gully with weeds growin' over it so you can't see it unless you know it's there or you fall into it. The motorcycle tracks lead right up to this gully. Mebbe the bird who bumps off Miller rides into it at night. About twenty, thirty yards from the place he rides into it, I find this."
I ain't bin much of a father to 'em lately. P'raps this is a punishment for neglecting my home duties As they used to say to you when you was Suffragin'." He gave a bitter laugh "Two such nice kids.... I ain't seen 'em since last February twelve-month ... more'n a year ago ... I got a bit of leave then.... There's little Vivie the one we called after you.... She's growin' up so pretty ... and Bert!
I'm growin' hungrier an' hungrier. Sometimes I put that hunger down but in a minute it bounces back up ag'in stronger than ever. It's my master, gittin' control over ev'ry inch o' me, an' I've got to listen to what it says. I know I'm makin' a long speech, talkin' like an Injun chief at a council, but I've got to explain an' make clear ez day why I'm goin' to do the thing I'm goin' to do."
"Why, some days it rains up here, but I can sit at my window and look down the valley, to where the creek runs through, and 'way up into the timber, and the sight of all those green things, livin' and noddin' in the rain is a long ways from being disheartenin', and when the sun shines I can sit out here, in my garden, with my flowers, and watch the boys playin' down in the meadow, Bascom's Holsteins grazin' over there on the hill, and the air full of the perfume of growin' things, they 'aint got anything like that, in New York."
But spozein' he wuzn't, spozein' you and his sweet ma had to look on as millions of other pas and mas have to and see his handsome, manly young face growin' red, dissipated, brutal; his light, gay young heart changed to a demon's, and from bein' your chief pride you had to hide him out of sight like the foul and loathsome leper he had become.
"The baker's hoose is no sae bonnie," he said, "and the linen and cutlery verra scanty, but there is a yellow laburnum growin' by the door: the leddies see that, and forget to ask aboot the linen. It depends a good bit on the weather, too; it is easy to let a hoose when the sun shines upon it." "We hardly dare undertake regular housekeeping," I said; "do your tenants ever take meals at the inn?"
Mulvaney, he sez wan evenin', very contempshus, 'you're growin' very jeldy wid your feet. Among gentlemen, he sez, 'among gentlemen that's called no pretty name. "'Among privits 'tis different, I sez. 'Get back to your tent. I'm sergeant here, I sez. "There was just enough in the voice av me to tell him he was playin' wid his life betune his teeth.
I never seed any thing so awful since I was raised, I actilly screamed out with horror and I threw away my gun, and joined them that were retreatin over the neck to Charlestown. Sam, that are British officer, if our rebellion was onjust or onlawful, was murdered, that's a fact; and the idee, now I am growin old, haunts me day and night.
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