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What are you willing to give?" Harry saw that it was merely a matter of bargaining, and finally prevailed upon Joel to release him for a five-dollar bill. "I want the money now," said Joel. "How do I know that you will do as you have agreed?" "Give me the money, and I'll tell you." Harry passed over the bank bill, and Joel said: "Dad's gone to the village, and mam's gone over to Mrs. Bean's.
Though," added the roguish Rufe, with a grin of enjoyment, "arter I hed dressed up the blackberry bush in mam's apron an' shawl, an' sot her bonnet a-top, it tuk ter noddin' and bowin' with the wind, an' looked so like folks, ez it gin ME a skeer, an' I jes' run home ez hard ez I could travel. An Towse, he barked at it!" Andy Byers spoke suddenly. "Waal, Birt holped ye, then."
And just at that moment, and before any one replied to him, the supper bell began to ring. "Takes me to bring things about, eh? You people might have waited here hungry for an hour. What are you doing here, anyway? Lou brushing mam's hair and pap looking on like a boy at a show." "Thomas," said his mother, "I wish you wouldn't be so rough. There, daughter, that will do. Just coil it.
"I ain't axin' any favours, leastwise not o' you, an' I thought my share o' Mam's farm mought be enough to git me the house an' some o' the land." "You mean to live there, yourself?" "Yes." "Alone?" Dave frowned. "I reckon that's my business." "So it is excuse me." Hale lighted his pipe and the mountaineer waited he was a little sullen now. "Well, the company has parted with the land."
The child followed her father to the house; there was not much excitement in the life of the Kimper family, except when there was a quarrel, and Mary seemed to anticipate some now, for she drawled, as she walked along, "Mam's got it in for you; I heerd her say so many a time sence you war took away." "The poor thing's had reason enough to say it, the Lord knows," said the man.
"Do you think your mother would give me some dinner?" "I guess she would. Mam's real accommodatin'." "Will you ask her?" "Yes; just come along of me." He turned into the yard, and followed a narrow path to the back door. "I'll stay here while you ask," said Carl. The boy entered the house, and came out after a brief absence. "Mam says you're to come in," he said.
"Now's my time," thought Joel. "Mam's sure to get talkin' with Mrs. Bean and stay half an hour or more." He ran up the garret stairs, and drew the bolt that held Harry captive. "Joel, I want you to let me out of this place." "Oh, gracious!" exclaimed Joel, in apparent dismay. "Dad would give me the wu'st kind of a lickin'." "Would he know how I got out?" asked Harry. "I don't know.
"I allow you ken get right at it and fix it in. This camp ain't goin' to be struck till the sweet food's done. Guess you'll mostly need physic 'fore you're through, sure. Howsum, your mam's 'll see to it."
Let's see, you're twelve years old now, ain't you? You don't seem to have growed a bit. How's the rest?" "Mam's crosser an' crosser," said the child; "Joe's run away, 'cause the constable was after him for stealin' meat from " "My boy a thief! Oh, Lord!" "Well, we didn't have nothin' to eat; he had to do it." The father dropped his head and shuddered.
This seemed to imply a negative, and the old man turned to another hopeful, who was pulling the fur from a mangy bearskin on which he was lying, with an expression as though it were somebody's hair. "Well, Tom, wot's to hinder you from goin'?" "Mam's goin' to Brown's store at sun-up, and I s'pose I've got to pack her and the baby again."
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