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Updated: June 17, 2025
"The Lieutenant," she said, "writes in this-yeh note that this-yeh place won't be safe f'om the Yankees much longer'n to-day, and fo' us to send the wounded lady in the avalanch. Which she says, her own self, it'd go rough with her to fall into they hands again. My married daughter she's a-goin' with her, and the'd ought to be a Mr. Sm' oh, my Lawdy! you ain't reg-lahly in the ahmy, air you?"
The innocent eyes faced him without a sign of embarrassment. "Aunt Basha's my old black mammy. Do you know her? All her name's longer'n that. I can say it." Then with careful, slow enunciation, "Bathsheba Salina Mosina Angelica Preston." "Is that your little bit of name too?" the Bishop asked, "Are you a Preston?" "Why, of course." The child opened her gray eyes wide. "Don't you know my name?
Now he thinks I don't know enough to know that old Bodge is mostly whiskers and guesses. He's known Bodge longer'n I have, and Bodge don't seem to be right bait. I can't get into his wallet by first plan." "It wasn't no kind of a plan, anyway," said Hiram, bluntly. "It wouldn't be stickin' him good and plenty enough to have Bodge unloaded onto him, just Bodge and northin' else done.
The blusterer is rarely tactful. "All right." Champers seemed to take the cheery tone as a personal matter. "Two weeks ago, I understand you and Mrs. Aydelot headed off these poor devils from their one chance of escape. Now, you know danged well you don't intend to stay here a minute longer'n it'll take to kite out of this in the fall.
My ears, keen from long practice, caught some of the remarks in spite of the noisy bleachers. "Say, busher, you 've lasted longer'n we expected, but you don't know it!" "Gol darn you city ball tossers! Now you jest let me alone!" "We're comin' through the rye!" "My top-heavy rustic friend, you'll need an airship presently, when you go up!"
This night they all slept upon the ground in the woods north of Wheeling. The Indians tied the boys tightly. There was no chance of escape and it was a very uncomfortable night, what with Lewis's wound and Jacob's fear, and the cold and the hunger and the thought of the cabin on Wheeling Creek. "Don't you beller, Jakie," Lewis bade. "We won't stay with 'em any longer'n we have to. We're Wetzels."
"Oh, I'll go that far," says I, "although the last I knew about the Ellinses' kitchen squad, it's takin' a chance." I was some little prophet, too. I expect Mrs. Robert hadn't been havin' much worse a time with her help than most folks, but three cooks inside of ten days was goin' some. Lots of people had been longer'n that without any, though.
"I'm some long; ain't I, Miss?" he chuckled. "But I warn't no taller than av'rage folks when I was a boy. You hear of some folks gettin' stunted by sickness, or fright, or the like. Wal, I reckon I got stretched out longer'n common by fright. Want to hear about it?" He was so jolly and funny that Ruth was glad to hear him talk and she encouraged him to go on.
"White folks 'n 'is house know 'im heap longer'n you. You the on'y man bettin' on 'im!" "I risk it!" cried George, merrily. "I put her all on now ev'y cent! 'At boy's go' be flower o' the flock!"
"He was right, Tavy, he was right," said Quimber eagerly and earnestly. "I can't argify, an' I can't convince; but I know he was right. I've lived most a generation longer'n any man here, an' I've seen a thing or two an' marked the way of nater jest like the Jedge.
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