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"That's true," said he, looking round him in all directions; "hold on, comrades, yonder's a mound with a bare top, we'd better camp there. Makin' a big blaze on sitch a place'll show the red reptiles we don't care a gun-flint for them, and they'll not dare to come near, so we won't have to watch."
"He must be paid by next week," she said, bursting into tears, "or the place'll be sold over our heads." Dad stood with his back to the fire-place, his hand locked behind him, watching the flies swarming on the table. Dave came in. He understood the situation at a glance. The scene was not new to him.
That is, I have written 'em, but I haven't posted the letter. Humph! did you notice that 'posted'? Shows what livin' in a different place'll do even to as settled a body as I am. In Bayport I should have said 'mailed' the letter, same as anybody else. I must be careful or I'll go back home and call the expressman a 'carrier' and a pie a 'tart' and a cracker a 'biscuit. Land sakes!
Mebbe the' 'll be some papers to fill out or witniss or somethin'; an' have that skeezicks of a boy make up the fires so'st the place'll be warm." "Very good, sir," said John, hoping that the interview was at an end. But the elder man sat for some minutes apparently in a brown study, and occasionally a smile of sardonic cunning wrinkled his face.
And I want to tell you" he swelled with pride "that the new ones are beauties. The place'll look great when we get 'em down. Well, you know Prince Ludwig and his crowd cross the State on their way to the coast, and of course they were invited to stop.
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