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Hanged if that doesn't beat Uncle Amaziar Wiggleses family, for their oldest gal's name is Samanthy Eunice Esmereldy Jerushy." At this speech Mr. Spriggins burst into a fit of laughter, affording sufficient proof to the company that there was little need of the necessary medical examination to testify that the applicant was of sound health.
No Jerushy! a love story! Why, Issy! I didn't know you was in love. Who's the lucky girl? Send me an invite to your weddin', won't you?" Issy's face was a fiery red. He tore the precious volume from its desecrator's hand, losing the pictured cover in the struggle. "You you pesky fool!" he shouted. "You mind your own business." The blacksmith roared in glee. "Oh, ho!" he cried.
Pearson," he declared, "a minute or so ago you said this was a lucky day for you. I cal'late it's a luckier one for me. If it hadn't been for you I'd been took up. Yes, sir, took up and carted off to the lockup. Whew! that would have looked well in the papers, wouldn't it? And my niece and nephew.... Jerushy! I'm mightily obliged to you. How did you handle that policeman so easily?"
"Yes," said Miss Ruey, "I 'member when I was a girl my old aunt, Jerushy Hopkins, used to be always a-dwellin' on this Scripture, and I've been havin' it brought up to me this mornin': 'There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four, which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. She used to say it as a kind o' caution to me when she used to think Abram Peters was bein' attentive to me.
Others were tying four men together with rope. Their weapons were lying in a little heap near by. One of the British was saying that Sir Charles Gravleigh had sent for them to ride after the coach. "Jerushy Jane Pepper!" said the man D'ri. "Never see no sech wil'cat uv a woman es thet air." I looked down at my gown; I felt of my hat, now hanging over one ear. Sure enough, I was a woman.
Bet ye they're some o' them bushwhackers o' Fitzgibbon. Got loops all over their uniforms, so ye c'u'd stick 'em full o' boughs. Jerushy! never see nuthin' s' joemightful cur'us 'n all my born days never." He stopped a breath, and then added: "Could n't be nuthin' cur'user 'n thet." We hired team and wagon of the innkeeper, and a man to paddle up-river and return with the horses.
The high, pure brow, and calm, thoughtful eyes, remind us of one we have met before, and the slender, nervous hands, locked after her old fashion when troubled, prove that it is none other than our young friend, Clemence Graystone. "Jerushy! ain't she style?"
I'm so glad! is Miss Jerushy with her?" she asked, fearfully. "No," said Mrs. Pepper, going back to ascertain; "why, it's the parson himself! Deary! how we look!" "Never mind, mammy," called back Polly, longing to spring out of bed and fix up a bit. "I'm sorry to hear the children are sick," said Mrs. Henderson, coming in, in her sweet, gentle way.
"Good gracious! yes, Moses, says he, it seems I must have had sich a feelin' meself, for I was a-wonderin' yesterday what I could do to make Jerushy and the family sure of a good livin'." "Safety is the word, says I, and as soon as you could say Jack Robinson, I explained the bisness, and next day Bill made an excuse to go to town and came home $1000 richer."
After supper we all sat by the fire, while D'ri told how he had been chased by wolves in the beaver country north of us. D'ri was an odd character. He had his own way of expressing the three degrees of wonder, admiration, and surprise. "Jerushy!" accented on the second syllable was the positive, "Jerushy Jane!" the comparative, and "Jerushy Jane Pepper!" the superlative.
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