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"Uncle Pete was a mite cracked over it, maybe. But he was good enough to me until Rufus Blent came rummagin' round. Somehow he got Uncle Pete to ragin'." "Who is this Rufus Blent?" asked Ruth, curiously. "He's a real estate man. He lives at Logwood. That's the landin' at the east end o' the lake." "What lake?" "Tallahaska. You've heard tell on't?" he asked. "Yes. But I was never there, of course."
Well, a couple o' days after he laid out the town o' Lafayette, named after a Frenchman you've most likely heerd about, he up an' sold the whole place to Sam Sargeant fer a couple o' hundred dollars, they say. He kept enough ground fer a ferry landin' an' a twenty-acre piece up above the town fer specolatin' purposes, I understand.
"Now the boss'd gone over in this one to Tampico in the early evening, and just about ten minutes ago I spots it landin' with a sousy bunch of Federals at the East Coast, and swipes it back according. Where's the boss? He ain't hurt, is he? Because I'm going after him." "No, you're not, Peter," Davies said. "Mr.
"But there's a guard, stationed across yonder." "Pish, a corporal's squad, just about opposite at the ferry landin', an' a company of Yagers down at Gloucester. There's plenty room between for a bold lad to find free passage." The two fell silent, staring out over the water.
Lord! folks come down from the Neck, and from Green's Landin', and Nor'east Harbor, and I don't know but they come from the main, to see her when she was fust towed in. And such work as they made of her name! Some called it one way and some another. It's a kind of a Cubian name, they say. I expect there ain't anybody round here that can call it right.
John's as Pilatka at least, with brigade drills! It was very kind and flattering in him to wish to keep us. But unhappily we had made up our minds to go. "Never did officer ride at the head of a battalion of more wobegone, spiritless wretches than I led back from Beaufort that day. 'When I march down to de landin', said one of the men afterwards, 'my knapsack full of feathers.
But ye never got no bettah, so I got skeered, an' went hoofin' it down fer de docthar at Beaucaire Landin', sah, an' when he cum back along wid me he dug the bullet outer yer shoulder, an' left som truck fer me ter giv' yer. He's done been yere three times, sah." "From Beaucaire Landing is that a town?" "A sorter a town, sah; 'bout four miles down ribber."
They had just peeled off their masks when Chow came charging into the lab, with a crowd of workmen and technicians at his heels. The cook was wild-eyed with panic. "What's wrong, Chow?" Tom asked in alarm. "The space people or some enemy's invadin' us!" Chow shouted. "Take a squint through your telescope, boss! Brand my bazooka, they may be landin' any second!"
"Hi! Here he comes! Eat 'im up, jack! Why, that ain't no grizzly. Sufferin' stars, he's only a little scared cinnamon." "He's goin' after mister-old-donk, though." "Ye-aw. Lookin' fer protection. Hey, look at the donk landin' kicks on 'is ribs. Ride 'im baar! Claw 'im up!
"Well, in due time I forget the exact date, now we arrived on the Coast, and there we stayed for a matter o' three months, huntin' blacks and Portingals; goin' into the rivers in the caravels, landin' parties, attackin' native villages, and makin' prisoners o' all the strongest and most likely-lookin' men and women with a good sprinklin' o' childer, too and cuttin' out the Portingal caravels wherever we found 'em.
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