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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I shouldn't t'ink yer pa'd want ter feed dem folkes aftah de way dey done pried 'roun' inter ebberyt'ing." "Well, it is annoying, of course, Sukey, but after all they were but doing their duty," answered Peggy slowly. "Yes'm," said the black giving her young mistress a sharp look, then turning she busied herself about the fire.
"Well, I'll tell you: I'm Robert Fraser, from the Fort. That's really all there is to say about me. You see, I've only been in one fight that was last fall and I've never even killed an Indian." She pulled nervously at her bonnet-strings. "You're a soldier," she said. "And pa pa'd be mad as a hornet if he knew I'd spoke to you." Fraser took another step forward. "Pa won't know," he declared.
"The time come when Pa would have greeted any claimant with open arms. The hoss had the disease traders call 'big shoulders. I was a mile or two off when the calamity fell, but somebody told me Pa'd bought a hoss, and I come home as fast as I could. I found Ma and Pa out in the stable-yard, and he was fairly chattering over his wonderful bargain, and what a kind heart the gypsy had.
Maybe the young men don't like 'em as good as you all does; an' then pore pa'd drap his knife an' fork, an' laugh tell the tears come in his eyes. Sister Prue she useter run off an' have a cry, but I was one er the kind what wa'n't easy sot back.
And after a while, down came the two searchers the old woman quite beside herself now, and scolding every bit of the way, "that she didn't see what bright eyes were for when they couldn't find anything an' now that Pa'd gone sliding down that mountain, they might as well give up, she an' Car'line" when a sudden turn in the path brought the boys into view waiting behind the rocks.
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