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Boone, and had been in the woods about a month, where they had some stirring adventures, meeting an old hermit who has helped them, and making enemies of a half-breed guide, Jean LeBlanc, and a rascally ex-deputy Ranger, Anderson by name, who was supplanted by Nate Webster, a warm-hearted old Maine guide and a firm friend of the boys.
He was still cracking his lash at the ground. There was a sudden, half-articulate remonstrance. Birt, who had turned away to the bark-mill, whirled back in a rising passion. "Did ye hit Tennessee?" he asked, with a dangerous light in his eyes. "No I never!" Nate protested. "I hain't seen her till this minute. She war standin' a-hint ye." "Waal, ye skeered her, then," said Birt, hardly appeased.
He was killed struck down in anger by Nate Tierney." "By Nate? Good Nate, who has been so kind; who was such a friend? I can't believe it!" "Nor I, hardly. Only poor Bill is dead with a broken skull, and Nate in the lock-up. The man Hapgood, of course came home drunk, and began abusing Lucy. Nate saw her running from him and snatched the billet of wood that her father was chasing her with.
But Uncle Nate demurred. He thought the expense would be more than the worth of usin' it once a year. "Once a year!" sez Josiah. "You forgit how much kindlin' wood a woman uses." Sez he, "When she that wuz Arvilly Nash worked here I believe we used a woodhouse full a day.
"You look too old to be alive," he answered; "fifty years older than I do, certainly! Mrs. Mehitable Whalen, are you my wife or my very great grandmamma?" "But where's Nate Pollard?" Aunt Vi asked. "I told him to come early to rehearse." "He said he'd be here in half an hour," said Jimmy. "He's off playing."
And a couple of hours after she'd gone Nate and his boy came back with a clothes basket with a board over the top and loaded in the balance of the family and went off with 'em. I ain't seen a hair of 'em since no, I won't say that quite, but I ain't seen THEM." "And didn't he give you any of the seven dollars?" "No-o." "But you had been feeding those kittens and their mother for weeks." "Ye-es."
Nate said he could remember the professor roarin' 'Fire! and 'Help! as the two of 'em bumped into his bed, but they didn't stop they was too busy. The whole length of the house upstairs they traveled, then through the ell, then the woodshed loft, and finally out into the upper story of the barn. And there Nate knew he had him. The ladder was down. "'Now! says Nate.
The miners had to stop digging here because they lost track of the streak. But they'll find it again." "How do you know?" asked Jimmy-boy, who thought Nate was putting on too many airs. "Because Mr. Templeton said so. They've sent for Colonel Somebody from I forget where. He's a splendid mining engineer, great for finding lost veins. He'll be here next week and bring a lot of men."
"Oh, everything's something. I hain't seen no call to go down on my marrer-bones yet, though. You allays did slop over at nothing, Nate." "Oh, but what's the use o' bein' so everlastingly cranky and onreasonable?" "I ain't onreasonable. I say it's you're that, when you're so pleased with the least thing. See here!
Nate had said to Jimmy just as they started on the race: "You won't dare follow where I lead;" and Jimmy, stung by the defiant tone, had answered: "Poh, yes, I will! Who's afraid?" never once suspecting that Nate was going to climb the ridge-pole of a house!
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