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Then raising his voice, he shouted to his command: "Boys, they've chosen to fight, and they are there on the hill. A man cannot rush that hill with his horse, but he can rush it with his two legs." The face of the Ring Tailed Panther became a perfect full moon of delight. Then he paled a little. "Do you think there can yet be any new trick to hold us back?" he asked Obed anxiously.
Besides, some unscrupulous men might raid your enclosures while you were off hunting, or fishing, and break up your business. It isn't safe, Obed; and I know from what you said before about suspecting strangers were around here right now, that you're getting anxious yourself." The boy drew a long breath, and nodded his head.
"I'm going to peek in and see it." Obed went and "peeked," while Hitty sauntered slowly on. The contemplation of the cake under the circumstances was too much for even so well-brought-up a boy as Obed.
He had run across a number of books on a shelf, and was engaged in looking them over, though hardly bothering to actually read. Nevertheless, he seemed to be quite curious concerning them, and when Obed chanced to come in, Max naturally asked concerning the volumes. "Oh! yuh see, some o' them belong to me," the woods boy remarked, without hesitation, "and t'others they were left here by Mr.
You're goin' to have dinner here THIS day, if you never do again." John, apparently, had no intention of going away. He smiled once more and walked toward the dining-room. Captain Obed met him at the threshold. "Well?" shouted the captain. "Well? What have you got to say for yourself now, eh?" John laughed. "Not much, Captain," he answered, "not much, except that I've been an idiot." "Yup.
I saw the soundness of his council, but assured him that I could not attempt to walk half a dozen miles, much less could I hope to make so long a journey. "Then it is better that one should come and bring back succour to the other than that both should perish," urged the Delaware. To this I agreed, and told Obed he must go.
Whatever War signified, it was a mystery for men, and for young men. The crowd thinned towards five o'clock, which is Polpier's Sunday hour for tea. On a tussock of thyme above Nicky-Nan's freshly cleared patch the very tussock on which Corporal Sandercock had rested that morning young Obed Pearce, the farmer's son, sat and sucked at a pipe of extinct tobacco.
The man saw them three months ago, and we made a bargain. I was to deliver the pups to him by the time first snow flew; and it's due any day now, you know." A singular thing had happened, and Max, while deeply interested in what Obed was saying, could not help but notice that for once the woods boy had spoken without a sign of the rude dialect which up to then had marked his manner of speech.
Despite all that Obed had said it was a dangerous task, requiring both skill and luck. The faint shadow reached the black blur of the horses and disappeared. Ned waited five minutes, ten, fifteen minutes, while the little pulses beat hard in his temples. Then he saw a shadow detach itself from the black blur. It was the figure of a man and he was on horseback. Obed had succeeded.
"Old Bruin will afford us many a good dinner, at all events, I hope," said I. "And do you know, Obed, you and the bear saved my life just now between you." And then I told him how his shouts had, I believed, scared away the rattlesnake. "So you see, old fellow, we are quits."
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