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Lubricated with a sense of peace and blessing, I arose. "Ye're jest like me," gurgled Captain Leezur; "ye don't feel easy in a cheer! Ye wanter be eout on the old log, don't ye?" "Yes," said I. "This isn't quite like." "We're nateral twin-brothers!" he exclaimed, following me to the door. There he looked cautiously backward.
I didn't know by a long shot what I was a-promisin'. I tell ye, the knife would keep goin' up the nateral way as it was used to; an' yesterday I didn't get no kind of a dinner, nor a breakfast this mornin', thinkin' of that pesky fork. So to-day I was boun' I'd get my dinner; so I cuts it up an' spoon-victuals it, for fear of hurtin' the feelin's of the best payin' boarder.
And he went back to his pallet on the floor. When the rescuers reached the ground the Superior Being delivered himself of some very sulphurous oaths, intended to express his abhorrence of "idees." "There's that air blamed etarnal infarnal nateral born eejiot'll die in Stillwater penitensh'ry jest fer idees. Orter go to a 'sylum." But the Poet went off dejectedly to his lone cabin on the prairie.
"Snakes I have seen, nateral and unnateral, but them yonder give me the creeps " "Creeps or no creeps, the others will be up here in five minutes, and what are you going to do then, Peter Bligh, what then?" asks I, for as I'm a living man I didn't know which way to turn from it. Seth Barker was the one that answered me.
"Oh, Massa," said he, "don't go for to ask dis child what you knows yourself better nor what he does. I will tell you some oder time, I is bery poorly just now, dis uncountable fog ab got into my bones. Dis is shocking bad country for niggars; oh, dere is nuffin' like de lubbly sout; it's a nateral home for blackies.
As Frank and Jan entered the house, a little-barefooted, tow-headed girl started off with a bucket. They were hardly seated, and their host had just begun to tell them about his wonderful "nateral well," when a loud scream was heard outside. The next instant the little girl came flying into the house, with a terror-stricken face, and flung herself into her father's arms. "Why! what is it, gal?
He went off to find the captain. When he came back, the young man had ceased to look toward the shore. "I made a mistake," he said regretfully. "That's nateral," said Uncle William. "I s'pose you've been thinkin' of her, off and on, and you jest thought you saw her. I wouldn't think any " "It wasn't that," the young man broke in. "I did see her. I know now.
And as for canned and dried fruit, I don't spoze there wuz a teacupful left in the hull State. Why, jest think of the dried prunes it must have took to make that horse that wuz rared up there seven feet from the floor! And wuzn't that horse a sight to see? jest as nateral as though he wuz made of flesh instead of fruit.
The sexton stopped to listen when they were nearly out of range, and was fairly carried away by the 'go' of the orator. 'Doan't he do it nateral! he said with enthusiasm to David, after a passage specially and unflatteringly devoted to himself. 'Lor' bless yo, it don't hurt me. But I do loike a bit o' good speakin, 'at I do.
"Oh, mother and Major!" says I; and I hadn't more'n spoke the word before mother had both her good strong arms round me, and Major's real cheery face was a-lookin' up at me from the little pine cricket, where she'd sot down as nateral as life. Well, I was glad, and so was Russell, and the house seemed as shiny as a hang-bird's-nest, and by-and-by the baby came; but I had mother.
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