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Updated: June 20, 2025
Cold water which Obed had brought in his hat from the river was dripping from his face. At his feet lay a huge black animal, terrible even in death. There was one wound in his head, where Ned's bullet had gone in, and another through the right eye, where Obed's had entered, reaching the brain. Ned's strength now returned fully and the color came back to his face.
Bob was a little disappointed that he could not take part in a search for Captain Obed's treasure, but he reflected that what Captain Spark said was probably right, resides, no one ever believed the stories Captain Obed told. The aged man's mind was not to be depended on.
When I got back to my shanty that morning I wiped the chalkmark off the door. I kind of figgered that I'd paid that debt, with back interest added." Obed's yarn being done, and friend Davidson done too, and brown at that, Peter T. passed around another relay of cigars and we lit up. 'Twas Cap'n Eri that spoke first. "Love's a queer disease, anyway," says he. "Ain't it, now?
Kendrick likely to put in your hands which you would hesitate to undertake?" "None that I know of. But if he did, I " "You could refuse to take it." "Why, not easily. I should have accepted his retainer and that, according to legal etiquette, would make me honor bound to " She interrupted again. Her patience was almost gone, that was plain. For the matter of that, so was Captain Obed's.
Mistress Elliott, in spite of her wealth, was said to be "none too free with her stuff," and she was not minded to lend any molasses under the circumstances, for "a trifling foolish" cake. Obed's representation of the distress of the Ely baby, however, appealed even to her, and she lent him a large spoonful of the precious liquid.
If I missed him, I should scarcely have had time, I feared, to seize Obed's rifle before he would have been upon me. I knew that his body was so encased with fat that it would be difficult to wound him vitally through that. I fired: the bullet hit him in the head, but still he came on, gnashing his teeth. I lifted my second rifle.
A few of his exploits in this way will serve to show his extraordinary 'cuteness. A neighbor of his had a black heifer with a white face, which occasionally made irruptions into Uncle Obed's pasturage. One evening, Obed made a seizure of her, and tied her up in his barn. He then went to the owner of the animal. "Mr.
"I come here, friends," he announced, "because Mr Obed's offered himself, an' I don't see no way but I must go too. . . . That's it: I don't agree wi' the ha'af that's been said to-night, but I don't see no other way.
I took my rifle and filled my powder-flask, with a further supply in a leathern case which had been Obed's, and all the percussion-caps, and as much shot as I could carry. I took the precaution also of collecting all the bows and arrows, and other weapons, of the Indians, and of piling them upon the fire, where they were quickly consumed.
The next moment, of course, I was as wild as he. "Get her out, then," I cried, "and up to the house at once!" "I can't loosen the man's arms!" Though less than a yard apart, we both shouted at the top of our voices. "Nonsense!" I answered: but it was true all the same as I found out when I stepped in to Obed's help. "We must carry up the pair as they are," I said. "There's no time to lose."
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