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"What you and Si needs," he would say to Shorty, "is chicken and fresh 'taters. If you could have a good mess of chicken and 'taters every day you'd come up like Spring shoats. I declare I'd give that crick bottom medder o' mine, which hasn't it's beat on the Wabash, to have mother's coopful o' chickens here this minute."
"The air were full o' bu'sted Injun an' a barrel o' blood an' grease went down into the ground. A dozen er so that wasn't hurt run back ercrost the medder like the devil were chasin' 'em all with a red-hot iron. I reckon it'll allus be called the Bloody Medder." In this retreat Jack had lost so much blood that he had to be carried on a litter.
A leg of the charger extended slantingly upward precisely as stiff as a stake. Around this motionless pair the shells still howled. There was a quarrel in A Company. Collins was shaking his fist in the faces of some laughing comrades. "Dern yeh! I ain't afraid t' go. If yeh say much, I will go!" "Of course, yeh will! You'll run through that there medder, won't yeh?"
"He ought, to, I'm sure. And everyone thinks you've done awfully well, Marthy. What can I do now? Wash the dishes and straighten things up, I guess." "You needn't do nothin' you ain't a mind to do, Billy Louise. I don't want you to think you got to slop around washin' my dirty dishes. I'm goin' on down into the medder and work on a ditch I'm puttin' in. You jest do what you're a mind to."
That wuz the evenin' after Dorothy, in a thin, white dress, a little low in the neck and short sleeves, had stood up and sung a lovely piece, or that is I 'spoze it wuz lovely, it wuz in some foreign tongue, but it sounded first rate, as sweet as the song of a robin or medder lark you know how we all like to hear them, though we can't quite understand robin and lark language.
Sometimes he kicked abstractedly at dandelions that curved over the walk. Any one could see that he was much troubled. "There's Sickles's colt over in the medder, Jimmie," said the old man. "Don't you wish you owned one like him?" "Um," said the boy, with a strange lack of interest. He continued his reflections. Then finally he ventured: "Grandpa now was that true what you was telling those men?"
It appears to me if I was a Blue Nose I'd ; but thank fortin I aint, so I says nothin but there is somethin that aint altogether jist right is this country, that's a fact. But what a country this Bay country is, isn't it? Look at that medder, beant it lovely? The Prayer Eyes of Illanoy are the top of the ladder with us, but these dykes take the shine off them by a long chalk, that's sartin.
An' Laura waits for me an' tells me to be sure to get 'em on tight enough why, bless me! after I once got 'em strapped on, if them skates hed come off, the feet wud ha' come with 'em! An' now away we go Laura and me. Around the bend near the medder where Si Barker's dog killed a woodchuck last summer we meet the rest. We forget all about the cold.
"Of course, I knew that we couldn't do by you exactly as they do in Spain in the way of amusement we couldn't git up no bull fight, not havin' the two materials. "But Josiah has got a old pair of steers down in our back medder that was always touchy and kinder quarrelsome. They are gittin' along in years, but mebby there is some fight left in 'em yet.
"And the old well-sweep a-pintin' up into the sky overhead, as if a-callin' Heaven to witness that it wuzn't to blame for the state of things "And the apple trees, with low swingin' branches, with no bare brown feet to press on 'em on the way up to the robin's nest overhead empty barns, ruins, weedy gardens, long, lonesome stretches of paster and medder lands
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