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Updated: May 7, 2025
De angels is all ready to tote me to Heben. I kin jes' heah dere wings rustlin' roun' me. I was jes' waitin' an' hol'n back ter see you onst mo'. Good-by, moder granny." Then she feebly wound her little arms about Kern's neck and whispered, "Good-by, daddy, fer jes' a lil while. I'se wait neah de gate fer you shuah."
You did, indeed, startle me by your sudden appearance; but no harm is done, and where none was intended no apology is necessary. You are a Frenchman, I think?" "Non, sair; not 'xactly. I be French Canadian. Mine fadder was be von Canadian; mine moder was a Frenchvoman; I be leetle of both."
Unable to bear any heat he had cast away all his coverings, in the fever that possessed him, and when I heard him moan and knelt beside him he stretched out his arms to me, and his pleading face grew sweet with hope. "Heem too young to be widout moder ven seek," said Frenchy, apologetically. "Heem moder is dead."
Fleet?" she asked, with a flush. The boy's lip quivered at the mention of that name, and he answered, hastily: "Fader wrote moder Mr. Fleet was no better. I fear he die;" and in an agony of grief he turned and ran sobbing away. From under her veil Christine's tears were falling fast also, and she entered her elegant home as if it had been a prison.
No more is Alphonsine Seguin scare. She's seventeen, an' she wait for de fight to be all over. Den she take her fader home, same like I'll take my fader home for bed. Dat's after twelve o'clock of night. "Nex' mawny early my fader he's groaned and he's groaned: 'Ah ugh I'm sick, sick, me. I'll be goin' for die dis time, for sure. "'You get up an' scoop some fish, my moder she's say, angry.
No Shawnee fader some more." The puzzling statements were followed by some words unintelligible to Peleg, though he concluded that they were spoken in the Shawnee tongue. "Do you want to see Daniel Boone?" he inquired. Gesticulating forcefully, the young man inquired, "He me fader?" "No." "White fader dead. White moder dead. Shawnee warriors kill me fader. Kill moder. Many moons ago." "How many?"
"Merciful Providence! and has this great secret been known to you, too, Nick!" "He no secret know all about him. Wyandotté dere. See Major Meredit' shot. He good chief nebber flog nebber strike Injin. Nick know fader, know moder know squaw, when pappoose." "And why have you chosen this particular moment to tell me all this?
Vilet thought a while in silence and then said, "Daddy, I'se keep a-lookin' fer you jes de same. I'se gwine ter ax de good Lawd ter gib me a little place on de wall near de pearly gate, an' dar I'se watch an' wait till you come, an' moder, an' granny all come. I kin watch bettah up dar, fer I won' be so bery, bery tired. Won' you let me go?
Poor Winklemann let his paddle drop and sank almost double with his face in his hands. "Mine moder," was all he could say, as he groaned heavily. In a few seconds he recovered with a start and bade the man in the bow paddle for his life. Winklemann, of course, knew that the house must have floated downwards with the current, if it had not been utterly overwhelmed.
Her only trouble is with the w's and th's. She can't get them right yet." Signe smiled. "No, Mr. Ames, I'm no preacher. It's all so plain to me. De Bible says ve have a Fader in heaven, and I believe it. I also believe ve have 'a moder der, as de song says. I can't prove it from de book, but I just use my reason on dat."
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