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"The doctor is afraid the crust may melt, and then he'll be stalled here with his outfit. "Those men over there?" inquired Reade, as the pung stopped, and the five men got out "Two of them look familiar to me." "I reckon," nodded Jim Ferrers. "They're officers -all of 'em. They've come over here to hunt the rocks to the south of here.
Girlth an' onionth!" shouted Chub, but Mandy, who was older, knew quite enough to be frightened, that is, frightened for her own safety. If the little girls were hurt, would some one blame her or Chub? The driver had stopped the thoroughly terrified horse, the pung was not injured, so he thought he might see if the children were harmed.
Walden?" she asked, leading the way to seats and bringing tea and cake. "I enjoyed your description of life in the country, and the young ladies were delighted," she said. "We have pretty good times with the quiltings, huskings, and sleighing parties, when we pile into a double pung, ride in the moonlight, have supper, and a dance." "How delightful! Have you brothers and sisters?"
Then Frank hitched up his pony again, but this time into a great pung sleigh, and the junior Osbornes took their guests for a sleigh-drive, chaperoned by Cousin Myra. It was just dusk when they got back, having driven the Rolands and the French Joes and Sammy and Tillie to their respective homes. "This has been the jolliest Christmas I ever spent," said Frank, emphatically.
The two men looked at each other in silence. Lancaster's face was dark with distrust; David Bond's, pale with alarm. "How?" exclaimed the latter, when his tongue at last answered his will; "how? Because Matthews came north with me yesterday!" If Shadrach possessed the sense his master claimed for him, he must have concluded then and there that the human beings in the pung had gone stark mad.
"I own such a pung. But I do not own two horses to draw it. And I am sorry to say that the horse I have got cannot stand on this ice." "Gee!" exclaimed Teddy, "if we got old Bobsky started down that hill he'd never stop till he got to the bottom. How far do you say it is to the station, Mr. Canary?" "It is quite twenty miles down grade.
You git into the pung now an' take the reins, an' let me do the trampin'." The boy, who was tired out, obeyed gladly. He gathered up the reins, and in two minutes was sound asleep. The man smiled, tucked the blankets snugly around the sleeping form, and trudged on tirelessly for a couple of hours, the horses floundering at his heels. Then the drifts ceased.
He was ten years, at least, older than Raven and had lived here, man and boy, all his life, and his wife, Charlotte, was the presiding benevolence of the Raven home. Seeing his passenger, he lifted his whip-stock in salute and stepped out of the pung to meet him. Jerry was yellow and freckled and blue-eyed, with a face, Raven always thought, like a baked apple.
They ate supper in silence; and then, while she washed the dishes, Heman changed his clothes, and went to the barn to harness. He stood for a moment, irresolute, when the horse was ready, and then backed him into the old blue pung. A queer little smile lurked at the corners of his mouth. "I guess the shoe'll go once more," he muttered. "No, I ain't goin' to marry ag'in!
He turned about, and walked past her out of the house. The Widder Poll followed him, wringing her mittened hands. "O Heman!" she cried, "don't you look like that! Oh, you'll do yourself some mischief, I know you will!" But Heman had climbed into the pung, and given Old Gameleg a vicious cut.
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