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"All time, yo' sleepum," he said, in the sonorous, oracular tone which he usually employed when a subject held his serious thought. "Peaceful Hart, him all same sleepum. All same sleepum 'longside snake. No seeum snake, no thinkum mebbyso catchum bite." He glanced down at his own snake-bitten foot. "Snake bite, make all time much hurt."
"Happens you're worth more to me than it; and you was dead set on filling up with that poison water," rejoined Slade. "Poison?" The old Navaho was drinking from the second spring, less than two paces away from the first. Lennon pointed at him. "Sure," said Slade. "It's not the only case I know of finding good water 'longside arsenic, in a copper district."
Matty's next words, spoken in a sepulchral whisper, bore down on her with emphasis. "Then what do ye think, honey bunch?" "I don't know!" Virginia leaned forward expectantly. "Jest as Betty was hangin' fast onto her grandpa's spirit, another ghost, some spots of black on him, come right longside the white one, wavin' his hands's if he was goin' to fly." Virginia sat up very straight.
'Fore we got dere, a ship hove 'longside an' gin us a message to put about. I ahsk a li'l Irishman, named Jack, wha we gwine, an' he say, 'Outa de worl'. "Jesus wep't I say, 'my mammy think I be daid. I couldn't read nor write, an' didn't know how to tell noboddy how to back a letter to my mammy, so I jes' let hit go, an' we staht back de way we come.
I hadn't seen her from that time till I blowed into Slisco's on the bosom of this forty mile, forty below blizzard. Setting around the fire that night I found that she'd just lost another of her famous lawsuits claimed she owned a fraction 'longside of No. 20, Buster Creek, and that the Lund boys had changed their stakes so as to take in her ground.
Well, they held the auction in the public square, along towards the end of the afternoon, and it strung along, and strung along, and the old man he was on hand and looking his level pisonest, up there longside of the auctioneer, and chipping in a little Scripture now and then, or a little goody-goody saying of some kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for sympathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himself generly.
Easy all, bullies nary a gun, mates we'll lay 'em 'longside and board Aye, aye board it is!" Now being on my knees, I began to whisper in passionate prayer until, roused by a shambling step, I glanced up to find Resolution Day beside me. "What, d'ye pray, brother? 'Tis excellent well!" Said he, setting a musquetoon ready to hand and glancing at the primings of his pistols.
"The next day we got the schooner patched up and off the shoal and 'longside Lazarus' old landing wharf by the shanty. There was a little more tinkering to be done 'fore she was ready for sea, and we cal'lated to do it that afternoon. "After dinner Hammond went down to the spring after some water and Lobelia 'Ankins went along with him.
Googe turned away sad-like, an' then Jim comes home, an' widout a word to his wife, says if they don't strike, because there's a convic' an' a no union man a-workin' 'longside of him in his section, he'll lave an' give up his job here an' it's two hundred he's paid down out of his wages, an' me a-savin' from morn till night on me home an' 't was to be me very own because Jim says no man alive can tell when he'll be dead in the quarries an' the sheds."
"Come along with me, Joan," answered Uncle Chirgwin, straightening himself and applying his big handkerchief to her face. "God send the man'll be 'longside 'e right soon, as you sez. Till he do come, you shaan't leave me no more. Drift's home for you while you'm pleased to bide theer. An' I'll see your faither presently, though I wish 'twas any other man."
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