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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Hey, Malcolm, here you are!" cried a wounded man, raising himself from his cot to the window. Malcolm Innes turned, scanned the train, then rushed across the tracks to the window and clung fast to it. It was his brother, Ewen. "Is it yourself, Ewen, and are you hurted bad?" cried the boy, all unconscious of his breaking voice and falling tears. They clung together for some little time in silence.
He could easily see it, because the pine needles were brushed to one side. Then Baby William tried to turn around and look at the back of his little bloomers. "No, I isn't hurted," he said. Janet and Ted laughed. "I guess maybe he thought he might have broken his leg or something," remarked Teddy. "Now come on and don't fall any more, Trouble." But the little fellow was not quite ready to go on.
"Now unlock the door, an' let 'em in. They worry so. Gran'pop hasn't slep' a night since I was hurted, an' Jennie goes round cryin' all the time, sayin' they 'll be a-killin' me next." Then, rising to her feet, she called out in a cheery voice, as Babcock opened the door, "Come in, Jennie; come in Gran'pop. It's all over, child. Mr.
Flossie and Freddie, not having Sam's hand to take hold of now, were holding each other's and watching the colored man help the stranger. "Hold on now! Jest take it easy!" advised Sam, in, a soothing voice. "Yo's gwine to feel better soon. Is you much hurted?" The man seemed more dazed than ever.
Count leant forward, saying impressively to me, "Y'r a smart youngster, an' I've kinder took t'yer; but don't ye look ahead an' get gallied, 'r I'll knock ye stiff wi' th' tiller; y'hear me? N' don't ye dare to make thet sheet fast, 'r ye'll die so sudden y' won't know whar y'r hurted."
Uncle Nathan approached the hatchway, and endeavored to leap out, an effort which was assisted by Pat, who, rudely seizing him by the collar, jerked him out with a violence that threatened his bones with dissolution. "How the divil did yous tumble in there?" screamed Pat, as two persons approached. "Are yous hurted?" "A little," replied Uncle Nathan, perceiving the ruse of his coadjutor.
"No; his father was hurted hurt awful bad. He was lying down in the sleigh, and Yankee Jim " "Mr. Latham, you mean, Hughie." "Huh-huh," went on Hughie, breathlessly, "and Yankee Mr. Latham asked if the minister was home, and I said 'No, and then they went away." "What was the matter? Did you see them, Lambert?" The minister's wife went toward the house, with a shadow on her face.
Hain't she hurted bad?" she asked anxiously, bringing her cap frills to bear on the boy in front. "Yes, I guess so," said Peletiah cheerfully; "she fell way down all over the cat sitting on the stairs." "Where'd you say she fell?" screamed Grandma. "Cellar stairs," Peletiah raised his voice, too, and sprawled out his hands to show how his Aunt Jerusha must have descended.
Delaney said cheerfully: "Well, good by, b'ys; if I've hurted any of y ez, I hope ye'll forgive me. Shpake up, now, any of yez that I've hurted, and say yell forgive me." We called upon Marion Friend, whose throat Delaney had tried to cut three weeks before while robbing him of forty dollars, to come forward, but Friend was not in a forgiving mood, and refused with an oath.
"Just sixteen, big and hearty and with enough in his head to get through the examinations. I packed him up, and him and the Deacon started down Providence Road at sun-up in the Deacon's old buggy. He looked both man and baby to me as he turned around to smile back; but I stood it out at the gate until they turned the bend, then I come on back to the house quick like some kind of hurted animal.
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