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And as my companion looked down in my face as the time approached, I could see the same thoughts that wuz writ in my eyes a-shinin' in his'n. Wall, as the pinter approached the hour, the excitement grew nearly, if not quite rampant.
"Who'd a thought he would a jumped into the Bayou sooner nor take a leetle trouncin'? He's gettin' to be a powerful bad boy, Dave is, an' I had oughter be to hum every day to keep him straight. Come back here!" he shouted, as the fugitive's head suddenly bobbed up out of the water. "If you'll ketch the pinter fur me an' promise to say nothin' to nobody, I'll let you off this time."
The believers threw their white robes on over their dresses and coats, and as the pinter slowly moved round from half-past three to quarter to 4 and so on they shouted, they sung, they prayed, they shook each other's hands they wuz fairly crazed with excitement and fervor, which they called religion for they wuz in earnest, nobody could dispute that.
'Tryin' for the second bottom? 'Yes, said Dave, guttural. Pinter dropped his tools with a clatter at the foot of the waste-heap and scratched under his ear like an old cockatoo, which bird he resembled. Then he went to the windlass, and resting his hands on his knees, he peered down, while Dave stood by helpless and hopeless.
"Yes, it's Dave," replied the boy, who saw that the battle for which he had prepared himself was likely to come off after all. "What business you got up here, an' how come you by that pinter pup?" demanded Godfrey. "My business up here was to get the dog. I found him in your camp, and I cut him loose because I have a better right to him than you have."
Presently they heard her drive on in her spring-cart on her way into town, and they drew breaths of relief. It was afternoon. Dave and Pinter were feeling tired, and were just deciding to knock off work for that day when they heard a scuffling in the direction of the different shafts, and both Jim and Kullers dropped down and bundled in in a great hurry.
'I suppose we must let him into it. 'Kullers' was a big American buck nigger, and had been Pinter's mate for some time Pinter was a man of odd mates; and what Pinter meant was that Kullers was safe to hold his tongue. Next morning Pinter and his coloured mate appeared on the ground early, Pinter with some tools and the nigger with a windlass-bole on his shoulders.
That somebody Dan knew was certain to be himself, unless "I'll fix him," thought the boy, his face clearing up, as a bright idea came into his mind. "I'll take him the pinter. I was goin' to hide him in the woods somewhar, but pap kin take keer on him as well as not. Don'll pay a dollar or two to get him back, an' I'll give the ole man half.
A wind-chute, like an endless pillow-slip, made of calico, with the mouth tacked over the open toe of the fan-box, and the end taken down the shaft and along the drive this carries the fresh air into the workings. Dave was working the ground on each side as he went, when one morning a thought struck him that should have struck him the day Pinter went to work.
"Then for a sartainty I'll shoot Grouse, and wallop Grouse's master, and that 'ill be two right things done one mornin'; the first would be a most darned right one, any how, and kind too! for then A would be forced to git himself a good, nice setter dog, and not go shootin' over a great old fat bustin' pinter, as isn't worth so much as I be to hunt birds!"
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