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But there wasn't no goin' to the mourners' bench and mournin' for your sins and havin' people prayin' and cryin' over you. They jest set and laughed and grinned while he was gittin' off his jokes, and then they'd go up and shake hands with him, and there they was all saved and ready to be baptized and taken into the church."
There wer'n't nothin' a stirrin' or goin' on; and so we was all took aback, when 'bout four o'clock in the arternoon there come a boat alongside, with a tall, elegant lady in it, all dressed in deep mournin'. She rared up sort o' princess-like, and come aboard our ship, and wanted to speak to Cap'n Tucker.
"Where was her mother all this time?" "Settin' right there in the buggy beside her, holdin' the reins. Where else would she be?" "Did she say anything about my coming to see her daughter?" "Nope. She never said anythin' 'cept 'Good mornin', Ike, an' I sez 'Good mornin', Mrs. Gwyn. She don't talk much, she don't. You see, she's in mournin' fer her husband. I guess he wuz your pa, wuzn't he?"
And bimeby the poor plant got all wore out with the achin' and the mournin' and the missin' and she 'peared to feel her heart all a-dryin' up and stoppin', and her leaves turned yeller and wrinkled, and she was dead. She couldn't live on, ye see, without her little berry.
Adhere to it, lad, or I'll be mournin', one of these gay mornin's, with you gone an' your name on no passenger list save what's the name of that divil of a pilot Charybdus?" "Charon?" "True for you, lad. Charon it is. What with drink an' the sinful climate, I've forgot much that many niver knew."
Then come the hired mourners wimmen for I spoze they think they're used to mournin' and can earn their money better. 'Tennyrate, these screeched and wailed and tore their hair and beat their breast-bone as if they meant to earn their money. Then come the relatives and friends. Of course, they no need to have wep' a tear, havin' hired it done.
But seems as her gettin' low an' then raisin' up again ain't the only tough part for it seems as she was so low last fall that they really felt safe to send Maria up to the city to buy their mournin' at a bargain sale for there's four of 'em an' they want the veils thick so they'll look sorry from the outside anyhow. And Maria did go, an' Well, Mrs.
And cut it middlin' short, because it's better for us to be down there a-whoopin' up the mournin' than up here givin' 'em a chance to talk us over." "Well, this is it, Capet. I ain't easy; I ain't comfortable. That doctor lays on my mind. I wanted to know your plans. I've got a notion, and I think it's a sound one." "What is it, duke?"
"Yes," said Bill, "Emily'll be mournin' herself t' death wi'out Bob." These big, soft-hearted trappers were all crying now like women. No other thought occurred to them than that these ghastly remains were Bob's, for the toboggan and things on it were his. After a while they tenderly gathered up the human remains and placed them upon the toboggan.
After sendin' me a marked copy of a paper with your death-notice, and after your will was executed on and I wore mournin' two years and saved money out of hen profits to set a stun' in the graveyard for you! You mis'sable, lyin' 'whelp o' Satan!" "There wa'n't no lie to it," said Mr. Crymble, doggedly. "I did die. I died three times all by violent means. First time I froze to death, second "
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