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He laughed at the trace of apology in my words. "Lord!" he ejaculated, "don't ever let that worry ye, boy. The hull settlement is mighty glad 'twas done. Old Hawkins bin on the p'int o' doin' it himself a dozen o' times. Told me so. Ye 're quite a lad, ain't ye? Weigh all o' hundred an' seventy, I 'll bet; an' strong as an ox. How old be ye, anyhow?"
It would be hard on a marchant to have to pay wages for work done on board a craft that's at the bottom of the ocean; so no more on that p'int, which we'll consider settled. "I am delighted to learn you are to be married as soon as you get back to Clawbonny. Was I in your place, and saw such a nice young woman beckoning me into port, I'd not be long in the offing.
You-alls can hobble an'sideline'em both at night; an' when you rolls out in the mornin', they's gone. "'What do you-all think, Nell? says Doc Peets to Faro Nell, who's perched up on her stool by Cherokee's shoulder. 'What do you-all reckon now of Texas yere, a-malignin' of your sex? Why don't you p'int him to Dave Tutt an' Tucson Jennie?
The p'int is, Christmas be comin' and ye and me and Sport, yender, have sot it down that we're to have a dinner, and the question in council to-night is, Who shall we invite to our dinner?
"Ye see that grassy p'int, jest ahead of us? Three weeks ago I was comin' down for the mail, and there was three deer a-stannin' on that p'int, a buck and a doe and a fawn. And " "Up in them alders there's a little spring brook comes in. Good fishin' there in high water. But now? Well "
I knowed all along he'd locate that Black P'int if I ever let him stop I've had my eye on it for years and that's why I hurried by. I discovered it myself, only I never told nobody he must have heard me talking in my sleep!" "Yes, or when you were drunk!" suggested Wilhelmina maliciously. "I hear you got robbed in Los Angeles.
But I done that out o' my respects of you an' Missis Fluker, an' your keepin' of a fa'r I'll say, as I've said freckwent, a very fa'r house. I let them infloonces go to friendship, ef you'll take it so. Will you, Pink Fluker?" "Cert'nly, Matt, an' I'm a thousand times obleeged to you, an' " "Say no more, Pink, on that p'int o' view. Ef I like a man, I know how to treat him.
"But the trouble here be to keep in the path, fur, in the fust place, there isn't any path, and the stumps be pretty thick, and I doubt ef ye can line a trail from here to the bank by the lake without one or more sudden twists in it, and a twist in the trail, goin' as fast as we'll be goin', has got to be taken jediciously, or somethin' will happen. I say, Bill, what p'int will ye steer fur?"
"It's a good day's work. Am I to presume that you are not interested in oysters?" "An' he gits fo' dollars a day for saying them things," commented the other shortly. "I tell you 'tain't wo'th fo' cents, suh." He lifted his bony hand and gave a tug at his scraggy beard. In a moment he spoke again. "Can you p'int out the young fellow from Goochland?" he inquired. "That's whar I come from."
"I should think any booby might know this is not the night for a fire, when things are so wet; but it is the night for a wreck, and the feller pullin' that bell tells me there is one off Gull's P'int." "Is it? I am going, then, and I should think any one but a booby would be going in that direction," retorted Will, noticing that the man was not moving toward the quarter where the wreck was.
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