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Hal managed to absent himself for a short time; and, when I found him, had traded Ned's watch for about as small and lively a specimen of a Mexican mule as I ever saw, which, he assured me in good faith, he had bought for Patsey's exclusive use.
"Let's see 'em." Patsey was off like a shot; his bare little red feet trembling under him. In a few minutes he returned with an old fashioned revolver known as one of "Allen's pepper boxes" and a large banana. He was at once enrolled and the banana eaten. As yet they had resolved on no definite nefarious plan. Hickory looking down at Patsey's bare feet instantly took off his own shoes.
After we had partially quieted him he was able to tell us, that, as he was "slapin' paceably, he all ov a suddint felt somethin' in bed wid him, that wuz swallowin' him intirely. A big black thing wuz lyin' right by the side ov him, and wuz jest a-suckin' him in whole, for he had his arrm in his throat clane up to his ilbow!" "It's that cub of a bear!" exclaimed Ned, interrupting Patsey's story.
I should not press any of them who are unwilling to go. This is a private business, and I do not think that it would be right to urge them." "Certainly not," Leigh agreed. "I am quite sure that all our boys will go with us, both for Patsey's sake, and because they are furious at the chateau being burnt down; as to the others, I shall put it to them that they are perfectly free to do as they wish.
The whole camp was roused, but no one appeared to understand the cause of Patsey's outbreak, and Hal finally suggested that he'd been dreaming. "Dramin', is it! I wish it had been dramin' I wuz. Boo! hoo! Didn't I sae him wid me own eyes, shure?"
Mind you, he did not wear braces yet, only a waist with white buttons on it, and him seven! Patsey's manner was cold. "You goin' fer butcher-ride?" Wilford asked. "Yep," Patsey answered with very little warmth. "Say, Pat, lemme go," Wilford coaxed. "Nope," Patsey replied, indifferently. "Aw, do, Pat, won't cher?" Mrs. Ducker had been very particular about Wilford's enunciation.
As the distance from home lessened, Patsey's excitement increased hourly. She could not sit down for a minute, quietly, but walked restlessly up and down the deck. She had scarcely spoken when Leigh said, after a long look through the telescope: "I can make out the house on the hill, quite plainly, Patsey."
That afternoon and evening the Superintendent spent listening in the pauses of his letter writing to the praises of the missionary, and to a description, with all possible elaboration and ornament, of the saving of little Patsey's life, in which even the doctor's skill played a very subordinate part. "An' there's Patsey himself, the craythur," said Mrs.
A Lively Dance for a "ded Mon." Rocky Mountain Sheep. A Description of them. The Wild Ox. Not a Success as Lazadors. An Exciting Chase. Tit for Tat. The Boys worsted. Mountain Dew. Patsey pronounces. The Buckskin Suit. The Old Mission. Arrival at Tucson. Hal's Trade. The New Mule. A Storm. Patsey's Ride. A Laughable Adventure. We start at last. The Pimo Indians. Manners and Manufactures.
The husband was a Longbridge lawyer, whose views and manners were not much admired at Wyllys-Roof; and he would probably never have found his way there, had he not married one of their old friends and favourites, Kate Hubbard, a younger sister of Miss Patsey's one who from childhood had always been welcome among them.
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