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I remarked that I believed there was a woman with them, and Jerry, who had been looking long and earnestly at the party, said, "Yes, there's six on 'em, and one hez got on a white woman's dress, ez near ez I kin make out. We've hed 'bout 'nuff Comanche fightin', so far ez I'm consarned; but ef them devils hev got a woman pris'ner, why we'd be less than men not ter go arter her whatever happened.
This combined action of the child and heroine, it is quite unnecessary to say, afforded Lance undiluted joy. "You go first," she said. Lance stepped promptly out, with a broad grin. "Looks kinder as if I was a pris'ner, don't it?" he suggested. "Go on, and don't fool," she replied. The two fared onward through the wood.
Then she to whom I pris'ner was, Said to me, tauntingly, Now cheer your heart, and sing a song And tune your mind to joy. Alas! said I, how can I frame My heavy heart to sing, Or tune my mind, while thus enthrall'd By such a wicked thing! But yet, if from my innocence I, ev'n in thought, should slide, Then let my fingers quite forget The sweet spinnet to guide.
You're a pris'ner, and it's the rule you can't holler or nothin'. You unnerstand that, Verman?" "Aw wi," said Verman. "Then go on in there. Hurry!" The obedient Verman marched into the closet and sat down among the shoes and slippers, where he presented an interesting effect of contrast.
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