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The devils set up another yell at this, and round they goes like tops, heading about east, to cut me off; but I soon see'd as they was pretty well done up for I'd kept 'em paddlin' all they knowed, in the hopes of coming up with me and I felt satisfied as I'd be able to get back in time to get your body and be off ag'in afore they could overhaul me.
She sprang up and tossed her hair back from her handsome, mischievous face. "He's coming!" she announced tragically. "Where'll I hide? I saw him paddlin' across the creek like a silly old gosling!" Uncle Hughie's golden-brown eyes danced with laughter. "Hoots, toots! Och, hoch, but it is the foolish lass you will be! Poor Davy, ech, poor lad!
"The belief in alligator-gar is a vulgar and absurd superstition," said the Lieutenant, breaking silence for the first time. "There, isn't anywhere in fresh water a fish capable of eating anything bigger than a bull-frog." "Hullo; did West Point learn you that?" said Shorty. "You know just about as much about it as you do about gittin' over cricks an' paddlin' a canoe.
Maybe he was that kind. Then here the other day in that big storm we had, as I'm standin' in the doorway hesitatin' about dodgin' out into them slantwise sheets of rain, who should come paddlin' along, his coat collar turned up and his cap pulled down, but Uncle Jimmy Isham. "Well, well!" says I, makin' room for him in the hallway. "Still here, eh?
He had then filled it with water, and taking off his shoes and stockings stepped up and down his narrow pool. He was distinctly aggrieved by Mrs. Brown's reproaches. "Well, I was practisin' paddlin', ready for goin' to the seaside. I didn't mean to rune your tray. You talk as if I meant to rune your tray. I was only practisin' paddlin'." At last the day of departure arrived.
"You allus was silly as a goose about that Drugg. Sech shiftlessness I never did see. There the young'un was, out in a white dress an' white kid shoes this mornin' her best, Sunday-go-ter-meetin' clo'es, I'll be bound! sittin' on the aidge o' that gutter over there, makin' a mud dam! Lucky yesterday's rain has run off now, or she'd be out there yet, paddlin' in the water."
"I tell you, boss," continued the old man, "when he tole me 'bout dat gal paddlin' dat bote on de Lake at nite, I diden' want to go any furder wid him, but he tole me dar wud be no danger. I cud not see hur, so I carrid him on to de Lake. He rit like de gal had run away an' had been drowned rite here. I shal nebber forget dat gentman.
"I hate ladies!" cried Gwendolyn, rapping her heels by way of emphasis. "Tale-bearing is vulgar," asserted Miss Royle. "Next year I'm going to day-school like Johnnie Blake!" "Oh, hush your nonsense!" commanded Thomas, irritably. Miss Royle glanced up at him. "That will do," she snapped. He bridled up. "What the little imp needs is a good paddlin'," he declared.
I wonder what they'd say if me an' Aunt Nancy an' Uncle Jim was to go paddlin' in among all the fine folks wi' bare feet an' all." She laughed grimly. "Will yo' coom yonder for the cockles?" she inquired presently. John nodded, and, turning, she ran down the hill, fleet as a hare, and disappeared round its curved base.
What did I say just now, Kiddie? Thar ain't no trippin' you up or catchin' you nappin'." "I dunno if you're aware of it, Rube," resumed Kiddie, "but for the past two or three minutes I've had the corner of my eye on a canoe that's comin' this way down the lake. Who's at the paddle? 'Tain't Gideon's way of paddlin'. 'Tain't Abe Harum. Who d'ye reckon it c'n be?" Rube watched the approaching canoe.
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