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Lubricated with a sense of peace and blessing, I arose. "Ye're jest like me," gurgled Captain Leezur; "ye don't feel easy in a cheer! Ye wanter be eout on the old log, don't ye?" "Yes," said I. "This isn't quite like." "We're nateral twin-brothers!" he exclaimed, following me to the door. There he looked cautiously backward.
Wal " "Speakin' o' Jaffy," said Captain Leezur; "somebody was tellin' me 't they'd heered how 't Lot's wife she that was turned into a pillar o' salt, ye know " "Ye'd orter see the hunks o' salt in Californy!" moaned triumphantly the spectre. "Had got up and went!" joyfully concluded Captain Leezur.
Leezur, in a mildly suggestive tone, as far from sarcasm as heaven is from earth; "perhaps, if 't when you'd got 'em up in piles, you'd keeried of 'em off, they wouldn't 'a' got swep' areound ag'in." "Wal, I don' know 's they would, mother; but it 's been a dreadful busy time o' year, ye know," said Captain Leezur, mellifluously. "Didn't ye strike a bone then, mother?
I was glad to hear that; a tune in undertone, like waves slowly, softly breaking. "She used ter play fifteen different tunes when we first had her," said Captain Pharo pensively; "but she got to squeakin', an' so we had Leezur up to ile 'er, an' ever sence she 's played one tune fifteen times! Poo! poo! hohum! Wal, wal Shouldn't care so much, though, ef 'twas only 'The Wracker's Darter.
The joy of a ransomed soul played across Captain Leezur's features. Keep yer mouth shet, ye know, and ye won't eat no crow that is, 'less somebody 's been playin' some ongodly trick on ye." Captain Leezur never laughed aloud: his smile simply widened and broadened until it became a scintillating sun, without the disgrace of cachinnation.
Now I tried to dwell upon the words of Captain Leezur, but, however callous I succeeded in appearing on the outside, at heart I was a happy, happy bean-pole. "I was stunned," I said. "Besides, you see, I did not expect to be invited." "Why not, Major Henry?" Oh, the beautiful Basin! the beautiful Basin! I tried to speak, but could not.
Leezur came out to welcome me, and sat on the doorstep near. She was chopping salt codfish in a tray for dinner. When her knife struck a bone, she put on her glasses, and after deliberate and kindly research extracted it. "Did ye hear anything from Jaffy?" said the mellow, glad voice of Captain Leezur. "I'm inclined to think what you heard was true, captain.
The look in her eyes she wanted me! Oh, how my heart leaped a trick taught it at the Basin, which now it will never get over. But, sly as Captain Leezur, I hid my delight in the folds of my great overcoat. Long we walked together. "What inspired you to this? This is best of all," I said. "Why?" said Vesty, glowing and beautiful.
"I might 'a' done jest the same thing," reflected Captain Leezur aloud, with a pensiveness that still had nothing of unavailing regret in it, "ef I'd been a mind tew; and had a monniment put up over me like one o' these here No. 10 Mornin' Glory coal stoves." I too mused, deeply, sadly. O placid, unconscious sarcasm! innocent as flowers: wise end, truly, of all earthly ambition!
"Dew you remember what I said to ye once," said he, "on the subject o' kile?" "Ahem! female affection?" I inquired gently. "Yes." "Some calls it that," said my twin-brother, beaming on me, "and some calls it kile. Wal, neow, ef a sartin person shows a dispersition to kile, let 'em! Let 'em," said Captain Leezur, irradiating my thin being with the glory of his countenance; "let em."
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