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They strongly urged that two other persons at least should be included in the charge Césarine and the little woman whom we had variously known as Madame Picardet, White Heather, Mrs. David Granton, and Mrs. Elihu Quackenboss. If these accomplices were arrested, they said, we could include conspiracy as one count in the indictment, which gave us an extra chance of conviction.
Upon entering the barn they found that the farmer had finished his task, and was pitching some new sweet hay to the cows. Frank suggested hiring a horse from him, but Mr. Quackenboss scoffed at the idea. "You're as welcome to the use of my saddle hoss as the sunlight is after a spell of rain," he said, heartily.
Quackenboss in the way, who had offered to come with his team for the desired service. "Then you have not been to Mr. Douglass's?" "I have not," said Philetus; "I thought likely you wouldn't calculate to want him teu." "How came the doctor to know what you were going for?" "I told him." "But how came you to tell him?"
"And even the Finns sent us some fish that their brother had caught, because, they said, they had more than they wanted. And Dr. Quackenboss sent us a goose and a turkey. We didn't like to keep them, but we were afraid, if we sent them back, it would not be understood." "Send them back!" said Fleda. "That would never do! All Queechy would have rung with it." "Well, we didn't," said Hugh.
Rossitur wouldn't know how to set him right, and if he was a going right Mr. Rossitur would ha' been just as likely to ha' set him wrong. Well I'm sorry for him!" "Mr. Rossitur is a most gentlemanlike man," said the voice of Dr. Quackenboss. "Ay, I dare say he is," Earl responded in precisely the same tone. "I was down to his house one day last summer to see him. He wa'n't to hum, though."
Quackenboss, sir; you may have heard " "Thank you, Dr. Quackenboss, but we have no time this afternoon we are very anxious to reach home as soon as possible; if you would be be so good as to put us in the way."
Quackenboss was pleased to attach himself to their party, though his own shortest road certainly lay in another direction; and Fleda wondered what he had done with his wagon, which, beyond a question, must have brought the cheese in the morning. She edged herself out of the conversation as much as possible, and hoped it would prove so agreeable that he would not think of attending her home.
Then they also wore warm colored mackinaw jackets, so that altogether Felix had reason to be startled when two such "sights" suddenly entered the barn. Why, even the gentle cows showed evidence of nervousness, and came near upsetting the milk buckets. "Hello, Mr. Quackenboss!" called out Andy, cheerfully; "we're the Bird boys, and we've dropped in on you without an invitation.
It had consorted with this that we found ourselves, by I know not what inconsequence, a pair of the "assets" of a firm; Messrs. Forest and Quackenboss, who carried on business at the northwest corner of Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue, having for the winter of 1854-5 taken our education in hand.
Quackenboss' place, and me, we thought it good policy to stay around, and keep an eye on our machine while it was lying overnight in that meadow. I had had a long watch of it, and was taking my turn at sleeping when just at daybreak Felix shook me, and said there was a queer noise up aloft that kind of scared him, and which he rather believed must come from some sort of air craft.
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