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Updated: June 10, 2025
Thereafter when we wanted to provoke a fight, all that was necessary when the unappreciated portion of his name was flung at him and was not sufficient to awaken his ire, was to throw out our chests, hold back our shoulders, curve our arms and say in a throaty voice, "Who's going to take my pawpaws?"
An abundance of pawpaws growing along the banks sufficed as nutritious food. The pawpaw is native to many of the Western States of the Republic. It is a fruit three or four inches long, growing on a small tree, or bush. The fruit is sweet and juicy and has several bean-shaped seeds embedded in the pulp. The voyagers now began to see signs of civilization on the banks of the river.
The foliage of the young pawpaws stirred behind her. Furtively a pair of black eyes peered forth and searched the opposite bank of the stream, the thicket of rhododendrons above, the blooming laurels below. Very stealthily a handsome head pushed out through the leaves. "'Lindy," a voice whispered. The girl gave a start, slowly turned her head.
We recrossed near the same place where we had entered the field; and, guiding ourselves along the fence, hurried on towards the thicket of pawpaws, where we had left our horses. My design was to take to the road at once, and endeavour to reach the city before daybreak.
The woman carried a basket of vegetables, the boy hugged a big pawpaw fruit which he held up proudly as his mother responded in her free-and-easy, rather sulky fashion to Lady Bridget's stiff nod. 'It's for the House, cried the child. 'Fo Wung said I was to bring it up. Lady Bridget made a wry face she did not like pawpaws.
When I git my answer mebbe I'll go. But I don't 'low to leave till then." "I'll meet ye there if I kin git out. Now go," she begged. The man vanished in the pawpaws. He moved as silently as one of his Indian ancestors. 'Lindy waited, breathless lest her brother should catch sight of him. She knew that if Jimmie saw Roush there would be shooting and one or the other would fall.
As I approached the pawpaw thicket, I walked with lighter tread. I am ashamed to tell the reason. Foul thoughts were in my heart. The murmur of voices fell upon my ear. "By Heaven! D'Hauteville has again got back before me!" I struggled for some moments with my honour. It gave way; and I made my further approach among the pawpaws with the silence of a thief.
We might yet find them near at hand, with trailing bridles, cropping the grass. Without loss of time we went in search of them D'Hauteville took one direction, I another, while Aurore remained in the thicket of the pawpaws. I ranged around the neighbourhood, went back to the fence, followed it to the road, and even went some distance along the road.
"You'd better not go over there, Charles," we advised him timorously. "Those Slab Town boys will take your pawpaws away from you." I can see now the chesty movement with which Charles stuck out his breast, threw back his shoulders, curved inward and swung his arms, and went away basket in hand, remarking in a lordly manner; "Aw, who's goin' to take my pawpaws?"
One day Lois had heard him say that there were pawpaws on his mother's place in Ohio; so after that she always brought him some every day. She was one of those people who must give, if it is nothing better than a Kentucky banana. After they passed the stone quarry, they left the country behind them, going down the stubble-covered hills that fenced in the town.
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