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This caused a boy to yelp out, "Is the Pinter a smoking the pipe your mother?" who was immediately shoved out of view by a sympathetic carpenter with his basket of tools at his back. At every fresh question or remark the crowd leaned forward more eagerly, and dropped the halfpence more freely, and the modest man gathered them up more meekly.
It's 'most too frosty to go slashin' round through the bushes now, so I'll wait till the sun gets a little higher, then I'll go arter that pinter."
Jim and Kullers were below, getting out dirt for all they were worth, and Pinter and Dave at their windlasses, when who should march down from the cemetery gate but Mother Middleton herself. She was a hard woman to look at.
"Content!" cried A ; "but I mean Mr. Draw to have an argument to-morrow night about this point of Setter vs. Pointer! How do you say, Harry? which is best?" "Oh! I'll be Judge and Jury," answered Archer "and you shall plead before me; and I'll make up my mind in the meantime!" "He's for me, any how," shouted Tom "Darn it all, Harry, you knows you wouldn't own a pinter no, not if it was gin you!"
Jim chuckled in a silly way, as if there was something funny, and Kullers guffawed in sympathy. 'What's up now? demanded Dave apprehensively. 'Mother Middleton, said Jim; 'she's blind mad drunk, and she's got a bottle in one hand and a new pitchfork in the other, that she's bringing out for some one. 'How the hell did she drop to it? exclaimed Pinter. 'Dunno, said Jim.
Now, Dave," and here Godfrey pulled out the hunting-knife which he always carried in a sheath attached to his bullet-pouch, and cut down the switch he had selected, "you jest take that thar pinter dog back whar you got him an' tie him up thar; you hear me?" "I do, but I'll hold fast to the dog. You and Dan have swindled Don out of enough money already; and now I'll tell you what's a fact "
Pinter scratched his chin-feathers reflectively till the other party cooled.
"Wall," says Josiah, "if you wish me well, I wish you would get me a little sunthin' to eat before I starve: it is past eleven o'clock." "The hand is on the pinter," says I calmly. "But start a good fire, and I will get dinner."
Pinter chose a spot about three panels or thirty feet along the other fence, the back fence of the cemetery, and started his hole.
"Don't you think you was a very grateful an' dutiful' son to hunt your poor ole pap outen a good hidin'-place an' make him take to the water like a hounded deer, in this cold weather too, an' my rheumatiz so bad?" asked Godfrey, angrily. "Who told you the pinter was here?" "Nobody. I just guessed at it." "Wal, what be you goin' to do with him, now you got him?"
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