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"Dab, my boy, how you've grown!" Not a tenth of an inch in mere stature, and yet Ham was entirely correct about it. He stared at Dabney for a moment; and then he turned, and stared at every thing else. There was plenty of light just then, moon or no moon; and Ham's eyes were very busy for a full minute.
"Ham's farm'll look like ours, one of these days, at this rate," he said to his mother. "I mean it shall," she replied, somewhat sharply. "Now go and get out the ponies, and we'll do the rest of our errands."
Not that kind of a barn. But what did Ham Morris mean by saying I was to go to boarding-school? That's what I'd like to know." The secret was out. He had kept remarkably still, for him, all the evening, and had not asked a question; but if his brains were ever to work over his books as they had over Ham's remark, his future chances for sound sleep were all gone.
"Wal," and the grin on Ham's face broadened, "that feller is James W. Marshall!" "What!" and Bud stopped so suddenly that he almost spilt the coffee. "Not the James W. Marshall who discovered the first gold in California!" "Th' identicle cuss," laughed Ham. "But 'tain't done him much good so far." "Glory be, we just thought he was an ordinary prospector, when we asked him to share our lunch!
There was a faint sound, like a smothered exclamation; and then all was still in the little grove of trees, nor could Ham's straining eyes detect any further movements. But his shot had aroused the camp; and now all the men, except the guard, came running to him, their rifles in their hands, excitedly calling to know what was the matter.
That same night it hastened forwards thirty miles to Ham's Fork, a confluent of Black's Fork, which empties into Green River, where several supply-trains were gathered, upon which there was danger that the Mormons would make an attack. The other divisions followed within the week, and the whole force was concentrated.
So Shem's face was whitened and from him sprang the prophets and the orthodox Khalifs and Kings; whilst Ham's face was blackened and he fled forth to the land of Ethiopia, and of his lineage came the blacks. All people are of a mind in affirming the lack of understanding of the blacks, even as saith the adage, 'How shall one find a black having understanding?"
But that thar map seems tew give y'ur yarn a look like th' truth; an', I reckon, them tew skunks must have believed th' yarn, or they wouldn't have ben so pow'ful anxious tew git th' map. Gosh, if it should prove true!" and Ham's eyes widened and his cheeks flushed and he drew in a deep breath.
Just as I feared, he got to drinking again. But it was because Bill met him when poor Ham's nerves were on edge, and Bill induced him to take liquor. Then Ham went all to pieces and started on a spree which lasted until now. He managed to get from place to place, always under Bill's eye, and at last he landed here, very weak and ill. Mrs. Donlon looked after him.
A colored man entered the general store of a small Ohio town and complained to the storekeeper that a ham that he had purchased there a few days before had proved not to be good. "The ham is all right, Joe," insisted the storekeeper. "No, it ain't, boss," insisted the other. "Dat ham's sure bad." "How can that be," continued the storekeeper, "when it was cured only last week?"
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