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"Tom says you owe me a hund'ed dollars for buhnin' down my cabin; an' he says to leave that an' the hund'ed you owes him on the schoolhouse steps tomorrer night; an' if you don't hand 'em over now I'm to put it up to the Cunnel!" It was disconnected, but Brent understood the last part well enough.
Then he talks to the cook, comes out an' gits in the buggy, an' drives half-way 'long that side of the square, about two hund'ed feet, to the grocery sto', and orders half a pound of coffee or a pound of lard, or whatever the ho-tel needs for the day, then comes out, climbs in the buggy and drives back.
In a few minutes Tom emerged from the side of the house as before; but a moment after him crept another figure, stealing through the shadows in a detour and stopping behind the same bush which sheltered Brent. She was not seen by anyone but him, nor did she know that he was there. "Tom," the big fellow whined, "I jest seen 'im; that that man 'bout yoh hund'ed."
"Well, seh" the Captain became blithe "Jeff-Jack sent faw him you remembeh that night, President Gamble this was the second bill ayfteh the first hed been vetoed an' said, s'e, 'Leggett, if I give you my own word that you'll get yo' fifteen hund'ed a year as soon as this new bill passes, will you vote faw it? 'Yass, seh, says Leggett an' he did!"
But den he wuz free, an' he did n' git no pay fer his work, an' I don' blame 'im much. Mebbe he 's done better sence he run erway, but I ain' 'spectin' much." "You may have passed him on the street a hundred times during the twenty-five years, and not have known him; time works great changes." She smiled incredulously. "I 'd know 'im 'mongs' a hund'ed men.
"Hello yohse'f," Tusk emerged. "Hold up a minute!" "Well?" Brent asked. There was a pause, and Brent asked again: "Well?" "Tom says as how you kin git that hund'ed for buhnin' down my cabin!" "I'll get a monkey-wrench, my friend; you rattle," Brent chuckled. "But you get out of my way! I'm going!" Tusk regarded him in sullen silence.
"Kin keep a hund'ed on 'em." "That's too many for one man to keep," replied the lieutenant, who decided not to admit, as he had before intended to do, in what manner they had escaped from the enemy's camp. "This boat belongs to the steamboat up by Mill Springs; we have no further use for it, and we shall leave it here. But you haven't lost anything of any value to-night.
Yes, seh, Ah'm gittin' th' money reglah gole money none a' this yeh Vaginyah papah-rags money. Ah ain't stahted good when Ah come, but Ah wagah ten hund'ed thousan' dollehs Ah finish up good!" The last was a pointed reference to the Colonel. "Have you seen Colonel Potts lately?" I asked. Clem sniffed.
Pappy will smite 'im on de back Wid a great big club ker whack! Ker whack! "Aventine, where I was born an' bred, was acrost Secon' Creek. It was a big plantation wid 'bout a hund'ed head o' folks a-livin' on it. It was only one o' de marster's places, 'cause he was one o' de riches' an' highes' quality gent'men in de whole country. I's tellin' you de trufe, us didn' b'long to no white trash.
Down war I is come from no pussons of de Four Hund'ed ain't eveh 'customed to partake of such. But the sassiety I has been in lately round dis yere camp ain't of de convivulous ordah; ole Cookie had to keep it dark dat he got his li'le drop o' comfort on de side. Dis yere's only home-made stuff, sah.
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