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"I'm telling you," persisted the captain; "'twon't be any luck for you to run up there, and it'll be hell for us." "Get up there and take that wheel!" roared Higgins. "Steer her right and true to the end of the strip and you won't get into any trouble. Try to ground her or any tricks, and you won't have to go 'up there' to catch hell." "Hold on, Hig."
I suspect it's all salt round here. I remember I've read of salt water between the Everglades and the sea. You take the bank downstream and see what you find. I'll go upstream. We'll meet here in an hour." They parted at once. But Payne was back at the camp fire in an hour and Higgins was there ahead of him. "What did you, Hig?" "I found a mangrove swamp that a bobcat couldn't get through.
"Got to go round it." "To the right; come one," whispered Payne. He did not trouble to look up. "Awful big island." "Yes." "Awful big." Payne halted. He looked up. He rubbed his eyes. "Hig," he whispered, "look at it." Drunkenly Higgins put out his hands toward the sharp-pointed leaves. "I'm gone, Payne. I see palmetto scrub." "Hig it isn't an island!"
A tenth bird fell like a bolt out of the sky and found itself a perch in a tree apart from the others. It was a small brown Mexican buzzard, the daring hawklike breed which does not wait till its prey is entirely dead. Roger's movements had gradually awakened Higgins and the latter also rolled on his back and followed Payne's upward stare at the waiting buzzards. "Pretty things, eh, Hig?"
And incontinentlie herevpon was Cnute chosen and receiued for absolute king of all the whole realme of England. Thus hath he written that liued in those daies, whose credit thereby is much aduanced. Fabian. Hig. Hen.
There the Hig, an aloetic plant with a point so hard and sharp that horses cannot cross ground where it grows, stood in bunches like the largest and stiffest of rushes. Senna sprang spontaneously on the banks, and the gigantic Ushr or Asclepias shed its bloom upon the stones and pebbles of the bed.
"'It's a fact and no mistake wi will now will you have me Sew ky? "'Jon nathan Hig gins, what am your politics? "'I'm for Polk, straight. "'Wall, sir, yew can walk straight to hum, cos I won't have nobody that ain't for Clay! that's a fact. "'Three cheers for the Mill Boy of the Slashes! sung out Jonathan. "'That's your sort, says Sukey. 'When shall we be married, Jon nathan?
And so I cannot but lament hig death, as though it were premature, and pour out my grief into your bosom; if indeed one has any right to grieve, or to call it death at all, which to such a man terminates his mortality, rather than ends his life. He lives, and will live on for ever; and his fame will extend and be more celebrated by posterity, now that he is gone from our sight.
Payne's orders seemed to drop the blacks in their tracks. Relieved at having a white man think for them they stretched their great bodies in the grass, their eyes not on the menace of the hammock, but upon Payne. Payne and Higgins remained standing, their carbines lying across their left arms. "If they can hit anything at that distance they've got to be pretty good shots, Hig."
As he realized that dawn was coming and that soon he would see his land, he tumbled from his berth with something of the eagerness of a boy on the first day of the long vacation. "Come on, Hig; daylight's coming." Higgins, the other man in the room, stirred grudgingly.
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