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Relatives of the Young Couple staked them to a team of Pelters, a Muley Cow, a Bird Dog of dubious Ancestry, an Axe and a Skillet, and started them over the Divide toward the perilous Frontier, away out yender in Illinoy. It was a Hard Life.
"I've been wantin' to spake a word wid ye for two weeks now about thim cows which me brother in Illinoy has been askin' me about, an' divvil a chance have I had to see ye!" And as he yanked Trevison's shoulders downward with a sudden pressure that there was no resisting, he whispered, rapidly. "Diputies thirty av thim wid Winchesters on the other side av the flat-cars.
All the older prisoners knew me by the nick-name of "Illinoy" a designation arising from my wearing on my cap, when I entered prison, a neat little white metal badge of "ILLS." When any reading matter was brought into our neighborhood, there would be a general cry of: "Take it up to 'Illinoy," and then hundreds would mass around my quarters to bear the news read.
They reckoned the whol' bunch must'r got away tergether, so the sheriff he started fer Saint Louee, an' the others got onto a troop boat what happened ter cum 'long, and started north. Long 'bout the mouth ov the Illinoy they caught up with a nigger-stealer named Shrunk.
He called this 'planting the standard of civilization in the wilder gardens of My country. As it was, he contented himself with showing Mark one of the revolving-pistols, and asking him what he thought of that weapon. 'It ain't long since I shot a man down with that, sir, in the State of IllinOY, observed Chollop. 'Did you, indeed! said Mark, without the smallest agitation. 'Very free of you.
Then we're all to go forward together." "Yes," grumbled Shorty, "and we'll jest git there in time to see them Illinoy Suckers hog everything. You kin see 'em limberin' up and preparing to git. Just our dumbed luck." It turned out just as Shorty had predicted.
"Illinoy," said tall, gaunt Jack North, of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois, to me, one day, as we sat contemplating our naked, and sadly attenuated underpinning; "what do our legs and feet most look most like?" "Give it up, Jack," said I. "Why darning needles stuck in pumpkin seeds, of course." I never heard a better comparison for our wasted limbs.
"I'm Abe Lincoln, of Salem, Illinoy, an' I ain't got but just one job right now that's ter make them boys tote this stuff, an' I reckon they're goin' ter do it."
We have friends there," explained Yancy. "That settles it!" cried Cavendish. "It won't be Kentucky, and it won't be Illinoy; I'll put you asho' at Memphis; mebby you'll find yo' nevvy there after all." "That's the best. You lay still and get yo' strength back as fast as you can, and try not to worry do now." Polly's voice was soft and wheedling.
You orter a-killed me, but I'm mighty glad you didn't. That shot of your'n was the best sermon I ever had preached to me. I hain't tasted a drap of liquor since that day, and I never will. I'm goin' to start to Illinoy to-morrow, and I'm goin' to get married and be a man. Better marry me, Rita, and go along." "I'm sure you will be a man, Doug," responded Rita.
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