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Updated: May 13, 2025
She could picture her brothers at work about the barn; most often a white-haired man who walked with a stick alack! she did not fancy how feebly, nor that his white hair had grown long and venerable, and tossed in the breeze. "Ef he would jes lemme kem fur one haff'n hour!" she would cry.
"Oh, be gorra, it's well you ever seen me at all, so it is!" "Why," said his father, "what happened you?" "Oh, bedad, a terrible thing all out. As I was crassin' Dunroe Hill, I thramped on hungry grass. First, I didn't know what kem over me, I got so wake; an' every step I wint, 'twas waker an' waker I was growin', till at long last, down I dhrops, an' couldn't move hand or fut.
When they had reached the house, he faced round sternly on Ab. "Whyn't ye kem an' tell me ez how the miller say I war a sneakin', deceivin' critter, an' an' an' a thief!" His wife dropped the dish she was washing, and it broke unheeded upon the hearth. Ab stretched his eyes and mouth in amazement. "Old Bob Peachin never tole me no sech word sence I been born!" he declared flatly.
'Oh, says he, when he seen that, 'it's a poor chance I have, says he; 'an' bad luck was with me the day I kem into this unforthunate place, says he; 'but any way there's no use in bein' freckened now, says he; 'for if I am to die, I may as well parspire undaunted, says he.
"I war up thar at the mill whenst the news kem ter-day, an' she war thar ter git some seconds. I hev hearn women go off in high-strikes fer a lovyer's death even Mis' Simton, though hern was jes her husband, an 'a mighty pore one at that. But Minta Elladine jes listened quiet an' composed, an' never said one word." The batten shutter was trembling in the ghost's hand.
Then reverting to his own absorption. "War it you-uns ez I hearn say thar war word kem ter the crossroads 'bout some revenuers raid in' 'round some-whar in the woods?" The look of surprise cast upon him seemed to his alert anxiety to betoken suspicion. "Laws-a-massy, naw!" exclaimed his interlocutor.
"Faix, maybe so, indeed," answered Barny, good-humoredly, "but it's seldom I ever went out to look for wool and kem home shorn, anyhow," said he, with a look of triumph. "Well, you won't have that to say for the future, Paddy," said the captain, laughing again.
Ye fund the water toler'ble high in all the creeks an' sech, I reckon, an' fords shifty an' onsartain. Yes, sir. Fall rains kem on earlier'n common, an' more'n we need. Wisht we could divide it with that thar drought we had in the summer. Craps war cut toler'ble short, sir toler'ble short." Mrs.
"Why didn't you follow it?" "That's a fair question, Sile. It looks as if I'd orter ha' done it, but you see, I don't want to ketch up with 'em or let 'em know we're here. I want to find 'em without telling 'em what road I kem by." It was a sort of half-Indian cunning, but it was not quite equal to the needs of the matter.
She had on a short petticut, comin' half-way down to her knees, and a necklace, and a ring through her nose. And " "Where were her other clothes?" asked the child. "Wal maybe she kem off in a hurry and forgot 'em!" said the Captain, charitably. "Anyhow, not speakin' her language, I didn't ask her. And she was as black as the ace of spades, and shinin' all over with butter."
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