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The Boy, on a sudden impulse, reached out and lifted the flap. "Got your bandage on? Come here." Nig brisked in with the air of one having very little time to waste. "Lord! I should think you'd be glad to lie down. I am. Let's see your paw. Here, come over to the light." He stepped very carefully over the feet of the other inhabitants till he reached the old woman's corner.
The children observed Nig very busy there one morning before school, as they flitted in occasionally from their play outside. The master came; called the children to order; opened a drawer to take the book the occasion required; when out poured a volume of smoke. "Fire! fire!" screamed he, at the top of his voice.
"Yes, pulls you off your legs or pulls you the way you don't want to go." "Oh, that's when you rile him! He's just like any other American gentleman: he's got his feelin's. Ain't you got feelin's, Nig? Huh! rather.
She would show herself in the kitchen long enough to relieve herself of some command, better withheld; or insist upon some compliance to her wishes in some department which she was very imperfectly acquainted with, very much less than the person she was addressing; and so im- petuous till her orders were obeyed, that to escape the turmoil, Nig would often go contrary to her own knowledge to gain a respite.
She came loitering home, half crying, exclaiming, "Nig pushed me into the stream!" She then related the particulars. Nig was called from the kitchen. Mary stood with anger flashing in her eyes. Mr. Bellmont sat quietly reading his paper. He had wit- nessed too many of Miss Mary's outbreaks to be startled. Mrs. Bellmont interrogated Nig. "I didn't do it!
"S'pose you think you'll make a good thing o' hirin' him out?" He hadn't thought of it, but he said: "Why not? Best dog in the Yukon." "Well, how much?" "How much'll you give?" "Dollar a day." "Done." So Nig was hired out, Spot was sold for twenty dollars, and Red later for fifteen. "Well," said the Colonel when they went in, "I didn't know you were so smart.
Quickly looking about, she took the plate, called Fido to wash it, which he did to the best of his ability; then, wiping her knife and fork on the cloth, she proceeded to eat her dinner. Nig never looked toward her mistress during the process. She had Jack near; she did not fear her now. Insulted, full of rage, Mrs.
Then Nig, realising that for once in a way noise seemed to be popular, pointed his nose at the big object hugging the farther shore, and howled with a right goodwill. "They see! They see! Hooray!" The Boy waved his arms, embraced Nig, then snatched up the oars. The steamer's engines were reversed; now she was still. The Boy pulled lustily. A crowded ship. Crew and passengers pressed to the rails.
Jump on Nig and go right away." Dorian put the money in his pocket, then went out to the yard and slipped a bridle on his horse, mounted, and was back to the house. "Now, Dorian, remember what I say. Get you a nice pair, a nice Sunday pair." "All right, mother, I will." He rode off at a gallop.
They didn't do you much good, did they? That little nig of yours is as sharp as they make 'em. Didn't he tell you who we were?" "He gave us to understand that he didn't know." "That was all right. It shows that he can be trusted to keep his mouth shut. But, I am afraid, if we don't quit talking, somebody will ask you what you found in your paper that was so mighty interesting; so good-by.
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