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They kept very much to themselves, an' never mixed with anyone when one o' them came into the township for stores he'd get his business done an' clear out as quick as possible. "Well, about a month ago two fellows called Bowen was riding along a bush track between Winfield an' their camp when they came across one o' the ol' mates peggin' along the track for all he was worth.
"I don't want to make shoes, nor fish neither, Uncle Shub," said Elkanah, soberly, looking the old fellow in the face, "goin' down to the Banks year arter year in cold an' fish-gurry, an' peggin' away all winter, like mad. I want to be rich, like Captain Crowell; I want to be a gentleman, like that painter-chap that give me drawin'-lessons, last summer, when I stayed to home." "Phew!
Presently the man arose, and, with a wide smile on his face, reached over and grasped Ken's right arm. "How's the whip?" "What?" asked Ken. "The wing your arm, Kid, your arm." "Oh Why, it's all right." "It's not sore not after peggin' a bushel of potatoes on a cold day?" Ken laughed and raised his arm up and down. "It's weak to-night, but not sore." "These boys with their India-rubber arms!
It was only a dull curiosity that turned him round at last to see what it was that made the Colonel peg out this time. He was always peggin' out. Yes, there he was, stoppin' to stroke himself. Trail-man? An old woman! Fit only for the chimney-corner.
There was a perplexed expression in his eyes as he said, "Nan, 'bout readin' this, you know I've been peggin' away at the first part, an' I can't make nothin' of it. It's just a string of funny words, names, I s'pose. I don't see no sense to it." Nan glanced at the page to which he had opened. It was the first chapter of Matthew. "Oh, that's all it is, just a lot of names.
She then brought forth a peggin of milk and a cake of barley-bread. "You must be hungry, sir," she said. "Hungry I am," said he; "but I wouldn't ask for better fare than this if I were in the king's palace." "Thank you kindly, sir," said she, "and I hope you will eat enough, and that it will do you good."
Good airth and seas, what a crash! it seems as if she'd bang the instrument all to a thousand pieces. I guess she's vexed at somebody and is a peggin' it into the piany out of spite. Now comes the singin'; see what faces she makes, how she stretches her mouth open, like a barn door, and turns up the white of her eyes, like a duck in thunder.
"I never tasted anything sweeter in my life," said the Pooka, crunching it between his teeth, "and now if you can give me a sup of milk, I'll want for nothing." The huntsman's wife brought him a peggin of milk. When he had drunk it, "Now," says the Pooka, "go back to your beds, and I'll curl myself up by the fire and sleep like a top till morning." And soon everybody in the hut was fast asleep.
Applesnack and a few of the boys tried to keep 'em away, but 'twan't no use. Ten minutes arter they went down the road Mis's Given come lookin' for Eli, and some one told her where he'd gone. She hit the trail, and next we saw she was marchin' him back through town, with Uncle Eb and the deacon peggin' along behind, lookin' as meek and meechin' as wet cats.
The Rube's speed and curves, without any head work, would have made him a pitcher of no mean ability, but was this remarkable placing of balls just accident? That was the question. When Berne walked to the bench I distinctly heard him say: "Come out of it, you dubs. I say you can't work him or wait him. He's peggin' 'em out of a gun!"
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