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Captain Jedediah Dean, his hand on the knob of the door opening to the back yard, showed the least evidence of surprise. He did not start, nor did he speak, but looked at me with a countenance as grim and set and immovable as if it had been cast in a mould. Lute, characteristically enough, uttered the first word. "By time!" he gasped. "It's Ros himself! Ros Ros, you know what he says?"
From the bright red wagon proceeded a certain metallic rumbling and clinking as it bowled along, and two or three nests of tin pans on its flat rope-encircled top flashed back the light so dazzlingly that Jedediah seemed the beaming sun of a little planetary system all his own. A new broom sticking up aggressively at each of the four corners gave the wagon a resemblance to a triumphal chariot.
Imogene and Jedediah and Georgie were in the kitchen making molasses candy. "Well," observed Captain Obed, "that's so, ain't it? Don't you agree with me?" Still there was no answer and, turning, the captain was surprised to see his companion wiping her eyes with her handkerchief. "For thunder sakes!" he exclaimed, in dismay. "What's happened now? Are you cryin'?" Thankful tried to smile.
"Jedediah might be useful to work about the place here," said Emily. "You will always need a hired man, you know." "Yes, but I don't need two, and I couldn't discharge Kenelm on Imogene's account. What that girl ever got engaged to that old image for is more'n I can make out or ever shall." Emily smiled. "I shouldn't worry about Imogene," she said.
Jedediah Buxton's counting the number of words was idle enough; but here was a fellow who wanted some one to count them over again to see if he was correct. The force of dulness could no farther go! Sir Joshua Reynolds, being asked how long it had taken him to do a certain picture, made answer, 'All my life!. People have about as substantial an idea of Cobbett as they have of Cribb.
"Well," says I, "Nancy Hollis, I'm sorry for the day I married you, and that's the truth, if ever I spoke a true word in my life!" I wouldn't have told you that now if you could understand the rest without. I'd give the world, Johnny, I'd give the world and all those coupon bonds Jedediah invested for me if I could anyway forget it; but I said it, and I can't.
"News?" said the farmer, "bad eneugh news, I think; an we can carry through the yowes, it will be a' we can do; we maun e'en leave the lambs to the Black Dwarfs care." "The Black Dwarf!" said MY LEARNED FRIEND AND PATRON, Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham, "and what sort of a personage may he be?" Jedediah Cleishbotham, seems to have interpolated upon the text of his deceased friend, Mr. Pattieson.
Then there was old Israel Peters, with a wooden leg, which tramped into meeting, with undeviating regularity, ten minutes before meeting time; and there was Jedediah Stebbins, a thin, wistful, moonshiny-looking old gentleman, whose mouth appeared as if it had been gathered up with a needle and thread, and whose eyes seemed as if they had been bound with red tape; and there was old Benaiah Stephens, who used regularly to get up and stand when the minister was about half through his sermon, exhibiting his tall figure, long, single-breasted coat, with buttons nearly as large as a tea plate; his large, black, horn spectacles stretched down on the extreme end of a very long nose, and vigorously chewing, meanwhile, on the bunch of caraway which he always carried in one hand.
Jedediah Morse was a man of note in his day, known and respected at home and abroad; the friend of General Washington and other founders of the Republic; the author of the first American Geography and Gazetteer.
To the leading wagon the "lots" assigned the three Fords and Jedediah, their colored "boy," with Molly, Helena and Herbert their driver, Lem Hunt, the most talkative man at San Leon but, also, the crack whip of the ranch. The driver of the second team was "Tenderfoot Sorrel," so called because of his red hair and his comparatively recent arrival from the east.
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