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Their distracted mothers meantime were weeping and wringing their hands at the farm, while all the men in the neighborhood were out looking for the lost boys. The hunter on his return to the hotel had reported meeting the runaways and his effort to send them home in good season; so people knew where to look, and, led by the man and dog, up the mountain went Mr. Mullin with his troop.
I've been mullin' over that consid'able since Cynthy and him fixed it up together. Of course, I know it's their business, and all that; but I presume I've got a right to spee'late about it?" He referred the point to Westover, who knew an inner earnestness in it, in spite of Whitwell's habit of outside jocosity. "Every right in the world, I should say, Mr. Whitwell," he answered, seriously.
Not only had Paddy Mullin and Jemmy Kelly run up in haste the latter, who had been digging in his garden, without waiting to put on his hat or coat but other families in the neighborhood, young and old, crowded in to welcome him home -from Dublin for in that lay the principal charm. The bottle was again produced, and a holiday spirit now prevailed among them.
"You always want to be stuffing and resting," answered sturdy Tommy, who liked to be moving all the time. He took the fishing-basket, which hung over his shoulder by a strap, and opened it carefully; for good Mrs. Mullin had packed a nice lunch of bread and butter, cake and peaches, with a bottle of milk, and two large pickles slipped in on the sly to please the boys.
"Run off to the woods and be hunters." "What can we hunt?" "Bears and foxes" "Mullin says there ain't any round here." "Well, we can shoot squirrels and snare wood-chucks." "Haven't got any guns and trap." "We've got our bows, and I found an old trap behind the barn." "What will we eat?" "Here's our lunch; and when that's gone we can roast the squirrels and cook the fish on a stick. I know how."
Sez I, "I don't believe it can be done. How would you go to work to do it?" Sez he, "It would be fur from me, Samantha, to muddle up a woman's brains any more than they be muddled naturally, tryin' to inform her how this is done. I only say there will be a mullin' winder in the house." Sez I, "Hain't you goin' to have a bay winder?" "That depends on whether there will be room for the bay.
"There, sir, that's a first-rate fit-out for hunters; and with the jolly basket of lunch Mrs. Mullin gave us, we can get on tip-top for two or three days," said Tommy, eager to be off. "Where shall we sleep?" asked Billy, who liked to be comfortable both night and day. "Oh, up in trees or on beds of leaves, like the fellows in our books.
Lad, lad," said the old lady, turning upon Brown her piercing blue-grey eyes, "in the old Mullin Church I have seen the very rafters throbbing, and strong men and women swaying like the tree-tops in the glen while Burns was raging forth upon them like the Tummel in spate, while visions of the eternal things the throne of God and the Judgment Day filled our eyes."
"What was that sermon, mother, at Mullin that time upon the words 'Will ye also go away? you remember?" at length asked Shock cunningly. His mother sighed. "Ay, and that was a sairmon to draw the heart out o' you.
"And lucky for you they did," grunted Tar Soap Mullin, who had earned this name from the kind of lather he used in shampooing himself every Saturday night. "If that bullet hadn't happened to hit your plug it would have plugged you." And this was evident when Snake took out the tobacco in question.
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