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He was right in front of me, and at first he seemed not to see me, and was hurryin' off dretful fast, but I caught on to his arm and says, quick-like: "Look here; I want to tell you somethin' fer your own good and to swap favers." Then he sort of slowed up, and axed me to pardin him he was in haste, an' gettin' orful anxious about them boys.
"You wouldn't 'ave a secret from your old pal Ginger, Sam, would you?" ses Ginger. "Old wot?" ses Sam. "Wot did you call me this arternoon?" "I called you a lot o' things I'm sorry for," ses Ginger, who was bursting with curiosity, "and I beg your pardin, Sam." "Shake 'ands on it," ses Peter, who was nearly as curious as Ginger.
At last a more sober look came to his countenance, a look of regret, of self-reproach, the look of a man who remembers something he should not have forgotten, and he said: "I ax the Lord to pardin me, that in the midst of my plenty I have forgot them that may be in want.
The three principal Chiefs petitioned for Pardin for this man After we explained the injurey Such men could doe them by false representation, & explang. the Customs of our Countrey they were all Satisfied with the propriety of the Sentence & was witness to the punishment. after which we had Some talk with the Chiefs about the orrigan of the war between them & the Mahars &c. &c. it commenced in this way i'e' in two of the Missouries Tribe resideing with the Ottoes went to the Mahars to Steel horses, they Killed them both which was a cause of revenge on the part of the Missouris & Ottoes, they also brought war on themselves Nearly in the Same way with the Panea Loups and they are greatly in fear of a just revenge from the Panies for takeing their Corn from the Pania Towns in their absence hunting this Summer.
A lusty voice hailed out of the darkness, and then Barrant was aware of somebody entering the wagonette, a large male body which plumped heavily on his knees as it started again. "Bed pardin, I'm sure. Aw dedn't knaw Crows had another passenger to-night." A husky voice spoke unseen. "'Taint often it 'appens."
Ax pardin! if the squire had had such a nose as that, I don't think it's pardin he'd been ha' axing. But I let the passion get the better of me, I humbly beg you'll excuse it, sir. I'm no schollard, as poor Mark was, and Lenny would have been, if the Lord had not visited us otherways.
"Bet he sneaked up on him," joshed Buck Peters; "did yu ask his pardin, Skinny?" "Ask nuthin'," remarked Red, "he jest nachurly walks up to C 80 an' sez, 'Kin I have the pleasure of ventilatin' yu? an' C So he sez, 'If yu do it easy like, sez he. Didn't he, Thompson?" "They'll be some ventilatin' under th' table if yu fellows don't lemme alone; I'm hungry," complained Skinny.
For a long time Jim had managed to keep alive his resentful feelings toward his wife, accusing of being the source of all his misfortunes the poor little woman who was loving and longing so sincerely for him. But when illness came he could hold out no longer. "I made up my mind then," said he, "that if ever I got hum agin, I'd go deown on my knees an' ax pardin' o' my Sairy."
No, sir; we poor folks have our feelings, as I said to Mrs. Dale, and as I will say to the squire hisself. Not that I don't thank him for all favours, he be a good gentleman if let alone; but he says he won't come near us till Lenny goes and axes pardin. Pardin for what, I should like to know? Poor lamb! I wish you could ha' seen his nose, sir, as big as your two fists.
However, the solution of her riddle was of prevailing interest, so she returned again to her questioning. "Did he say how he found me?" she demanded. "Did he tell you any any particulars of what happened to the cart, and and the teamster?" "No, ma'm miss, beggin' your pardin, that he didn't. I never see sech a fresh feller outside a noospaper office.
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