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'Trespassing? said I. 'I have fished here all my life; I am Walter Clifford, and this belongs to my father. 'Well, said the man, 'I've heerd it did belong to Colonel Clifford onst, but now it belongs to Muster Mills; so you must fish in your own water, young gentleman, and leave ourn to us as owns it. Till I was eighteen I used to shoot snipes in a rushy bottom near Calverley Church.
It's ourn they're thinkin' of, but I kin tell you right now, Henry, that a year from today they'll be growin' squa'rly on top o' our heads, right whar they are this minute." "I hope and believe you're right, Sol. Isn't that a canoe putting out from the far shore?"
Crane's piece that jined on to ourn, and I made him throw in the scarecrow, cause I meant to have a rag party; and I reckon that you'll get a good many strips out on 'em, though they be so patched like."
There was no doubt that a man who laughed such a laugh was enjoying himself. "I reckon you didn't have much trouble follerin' that trail o' ourn," he said. Jim Hart answered the laugh with a grin. "Not much," he replied. "It was like a wagon road through the wilderness. The ashes uv your last camp fire weren't sca'cely cold when I passed by."
She was gittin' sick o' them she's been buyin' at Billings'. She was downright thankful." About a week later she said: "Them hens of ourn do beat all creation. I run out o' that hen-food a week ago, and I hain't give them a mite since, and they keep a-layin' jist the same. I can't make head nor tail of them, Pap." Pap squirmed in his chair.
It was next May that Pap Overholt, who had been doing some hauling over as far as Big Turkey Track, returned one evening with a little figure perched beside him on the high wagon seat. "The Lord sent him, honey," he said, and handed the child down to his wife. "He ain't got a livin' soul on this earth to lay claim to him. He is ourn as much as ef he was flesh and bone of us.
"A neighbor of ourn had warned her girl to not be too familiar with the hired man, a good Christian he wuz too. And once when her ma wuz gone he asked her where the milk pail wuz, and she wantin' to be on the safe side wouldn't say a word. That wuz bein' too cautious, and a good many think he's been a little too mute about some things, he didn't tell jest where his politics wuz.
"Noa," said one of them at last, "it's noa business ov ourn is it, Bill?" "Noa," said the other, stolidly; and on they tramped. "Oh, you heroes!" George flung after them. "Attacking a woman in the dark is about what you understand! Madan!" He whistled again, and this time there was a hurrying from overhead. "Sir George!" "Come down here, will you, at once!"
He walked over and gravely kicked it, scattering the gold over the landscape. "It ain't ourn," he said. "It belongs to the geezer I backed up five hundred feet last night. An' what gets me is four hundred an' ninety of them feet was to the good his good. Come on, Smoke. Let's start the hike to Dawson. Though if you're hankerin' to kill me I won't lift a finger to prevent."
Tucker, and I'm just a-going to give a measure to the Poteets as a compliment to that new Poteet baby, which is the seventh mouth to feed on them eighty-five acres. I've set yeast for ourn and your rolls for to-morrow, tell your Aunt Mandy, Rose Mary, and I brought that copy of the Christian Advocate for your Aunt Viney that she lost last month.
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