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It's an awful affair.... But come!" he added, recovering himself, "there's something else to do now. We've got word from Colonel Allen. The troops are almost here. An' as good as we've done, there ain't ha'f enough boats to transport our boys across the lake." "There may be more comin' from the north, 'Siah," suggested Brown. "Y' know ye sent some of the boys up that way this arternoon."
Set right down on them stools, an' don't let me heah a word outen you tell them socks is ready to hev the heel sot. Ha'f a finger length more you've both got to knit." She measured the unfinished socks, and then handed each little girl her task. "Henry, you'll put yer eyes out readin' by thet fire, an' me an' Susan needs all the candle-light fur our wuck.
Sez we, 'Ol' man, the labour? Sez he, 'It's binding wheat. Sez we, 'Ol' man, the figger? 'A dollar an' a ha'f the sum. Sez we, 'Ol' man, go an' tickle yerself, we'd a durned sight sooner bum!
"No," He laughed. "That wasn't my gun. They thought it was. I wanted to bring the thing to grips. But I wasn't fool enough to chuck away my gun. That was a wrench I was usin' this mornin' to fix the cabin stove looks jest like an ottermatic. I stuck it in my inside pocket. I was ha'f a mind to shoot when they showed their knives, but I didn't want to use my gun on that mess of hash."
"Four hours and a quarter they was at it, four hours, mind you, and under water a good ha'f of the time; but they got that sail nailed fast fin'lly. We got 'em on deck when 'twas done, and we had to carry the fust mate to the cabin.
"Wal," he went on, "I don't guess I ken make folks talk if they don't notion it. But I want to say right here I bought ha'f o' Zip's claim fer good dollars, an' I'm goin' to pay Sandy Joyce a tiptop wage fer workin' my share. An'" he paused and glanced swiftly and defiantly at the faces which were no longer smiling "an' I want to say I bought the richest lay-out in this bum camp.
She had not spoken for a long time, when the old woman roused her. "Whar was you dis mawnin', honey chile? Mister Willits done wait mo'n ha'f a hour, den he say he come back an' fetch his sorrel horse wid him dis arternoon an' take ye ridin'. But he ain't come dat is, Ben done tol' me so." "No, mammy," she answered wearily "I sent him word not to I didn't feel like riding to-day."
I'm in the lumber business. It's only with the freeze up I can quit my mills. Have a cigar?" Bull had no alternative. The man was there to talk, and his desire to do so was frankly displayed. "I won't smoke, thanks," Bull replied without offense. "It's too near dinner." "Dinner? There's a ha'f hour to the dressing bugle."
"But not ha'f so foolish as the notion that a girl has to suffer the worries and dangers of one hell of a trip on the worst sea that God ever made to try and square the things between them." Nancy shook her head. "I can't grant that," she cried quickly. "No?" "I mean oh, psha! Don't you see, or does your cynical philosophy blind you? We're fools, maybe.
The other glanced round the pleasant office, and his eyes paused for a moment at the chair at the desk. "Food don't worry, thanks," he said, his mildly smiling eyes coming back to his host's face. "I've eaten ten miles back. I rested the dogs there, too. I've maybe a ha'f hour to tell you the thing I came for. There's trouble in the woods. Bad trouble.
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