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From there in due time he might have gained promotion to the augmented dignities of Congress, but he had persistently waved aside the whispers of such temptation. "He hain't a wishful feller nohow," the stranger was always told, "despite thet he knows hist'ry an' sich like lore in an' out an' back'ards an' forrards."
Lots of mean men on this river, they play any old game. They say they're preachers, or umbrella menders, or anything. Every once in a while some feller comes down, saying he's off'n some magazine. They come down in skiffs, mostly. It's a great game they play. Everybody tells 'em everything. If I was going to be a crook, I bet I'd say I was a hist'ry writer.
Edward an' some other gentleman talkin' 'bout how folks was always tryin' now to be upsettin' of hist'ry; an' Bill says he reckons that 'bout George Washington was just another upsettin', an' him an' me ain't goin' to believe it." "That's right, Jim, keep your faith in Washington, and show that you do so by adopting his name," said Milly.
And what do you think now! She told us only this afternoon that we must all have an antidote for some of the Presidents to tell tomorrow for General Lesson." "A what!" "An antidote. A short story about some of the Presidents of the United States." "You mean anecdote, child. I didn't suppose you were old enough to be studying history in your room." "Oh, this ain't hist'ry!
And if Martha should happen to get down before those bottles are removed well, I should have to tell her all." Trust Martha. She did. And when I finished breakfast she was still waitin' for Zenobia to come down and be quizzed. I don't know how far back into fam'ly hist'ry that little chat took 'em, or what Martha had to say.
I had heard my father talk of England's power and might, and Mister Moultrie seemed to me a very brave man in his little fort. "Why!" exclaimed the old negro. "You ain't neber read no hist'ry books. I knows some of de gentlemen wid Mister Moultrie. Dey ain't no soldiers. Some is fine gentlemen, to be suah, but it's jist foolishness to fight dat fleet an' army.
I ain't told you my plan, Miss Hollis, and there ain't many I shall tell; but this rug is going to be a kind of a hist'ry of my life and Lovey's wrought in together, just as we was bound up in one another when she was alive. Her things and mine was laid in one trunk, and the moths sha'n't cheat me out of 'em altogether.
"No," said he, "it ain't about no treasure, but just about the origin, hist'ry and development and subsequent decease of as mean a Greaser as ever stole stock, which his name was Cock-eye Blacklock. "You see, this same Blacklock went bad about two summers after our meet-up with the blizzard.
"And it's still buried, because it ain't been dug up, or else we'd have heard of it. Years ago I read all that hist'ry ever had to say about it. I said then to myself, 'Bodge, says I, 'if the treasure of old Cap Kidd is ever found, it will be you with your wonderful powers that will find it! I always said that to myself. I know it now. Here's the tool."
Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes?
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