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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I've often said I could marry any one half a mile erway if they would only talk as loud as I kin. I've got the good book right hyah in my pocket, suh. My ol' woman is comin'. She'll be hyah in a minute fer to witness the perceedin's." Mrs. Nuckles made her appearance on the river bank in a short time. Then the minister shouted: "We'll begin by readin' the nineteenth chapter of Matthew."
Nuckles rode close to the woodshed and looked up at him. "'My brother, I fear you be not a Christian, he said. "He swore at the minister. That settled him. "'What's all this erbout? Mr. Nuckles asked me. "'He and his friend are from Missouri, I says.
Did you know that every one of you could be sent to prison for a term of years and I've a good mind to see that you go there. You men have got to begin right now to behave yourselves mighty proper or you'll begin to sup sorrow." Stephen Nuckles returned as Abe was speaking. "You jest leave 'em to me, Mr. Lincoln," he said. "These be good men but ol' Satan done got his hooks on 'em.
Abe took him to the road and pointed the way. "There be goin' to be a raid," said Nuckles. "I reckon, by all I've heard, it'll come on to-night." "A raid! Who's going to be raided?" Abe asked. "Them Traylor folks. A lady done tol' me yesterday. Soon as ever I got her soul saved she blabbed it. Thar be a St.
"Of what was done in the barn I have no knowledge but when Nuckles came back to the house with them in the morning the minister said that they had come into the fold and that he would promise for them that they would be good citizens in the future. They got their breakfast, fed and watered their horses and rode away. We found five men up in the tree-tops and the dog on watch.
"It's a noble and benevolent conspiracy that has turned this cabin into a Paradise and brought all this happiness upon me," he said as he kissed her. "I thought it strange that Mr. Nuckles should be on hand at the right moment." "The creek was a harder thing to manage," she answered with a smile. "I told my messenger to see that the gate of the reservoir was opened at four o'clock.
He had sounded the keynote of the new Democracy. "There are some who think that Reason is the only guide but in the one problem of going home it don't compare with the turtle's wisdom," Abe added. "His head isn't bigger than a small apple. But I reckon the scientist can't teach him anything about navigation. Reminds me o' Steve Nuckles.
A man stood on the farther shore with some seventy feet of deep and rapid water between him and the travelers. "That man looks like Stephen Nuckles," said Harry. "It is Stephen Nuckles," Bim answered. "Hello, Steve!" the young soldier called. "Howdy, boy!" said the old minister. "That ar creek is b'ilin' over. I reckon you'll have to swim the hosses."
I helped them put the wounded men into the wagon and rode to the house of one of the doctors near the city wherein were rooms for the accommodation of critical cases, leading Harry's horse and praying for God's help and forgiveness. I took care of the boy until Steve Nuckles came to help me. Bim arrived when Harry was out of his head and didn't know her.
"Just then Stephen Nuckles, the circuit minister, rode in with the big bloodhound that follers him around. "The other slaver had got off his hoss in the scrimmage. Traylor started for him. The slaver began to back away and suddenly broke into a run. The big dog took after him with a kind of a lion roar. We all began yelling at the dog. We made more noise than you'd hear at the end of a hoss race.
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