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'He's called a very pious man, too, great hand in meetin's, Mr. Hart, says they; an' says he, 'I'd have you rec'lect he's a-prayin' out o' my time! Said it hasty, too, as if he meant it." "Well, I can put up with Hart; he's near, but he uses me well, an' I try to do the same by him. I don't bange on 'em; I pay my way, an' I feel as if everything was temp'rary.
"'It's dry as a bone, he says, 'but what I say is this, le's us leave a fire burn here all night, so's to be sure. I'd hate like death to hev the whole congregation catchin' cold an' takin' Hiram Gekerjeck's medicine. "I rec'lect Eppleby Holcomb looked up sort o' dreamy Eppleby always goes round like he'd swallowed his last night's sleep. "'The house o' God, he says over; 'ain't that curious?
But Serena liked to tell her who every one was, and there was as much friendly interest shown in Miss Betty Leicester as any heart could wish. They had gone almost fourteen miles, and Betty was just nearing the end of a long description of her experiences at the Queen's Jubilee, when Jonathan said: "Now you can rec'lect just where you put the mark in.
I borr'ed it for ye on my indorsement, an' charged ye fer doin' it, as I told ye at the time; an' another thing that you appear to forgit is that you signed a paper statin' that you was wuth, in good and available pusson'ls, free an' clear, over five hunderd dollars, an' that the statement was made to me with the view of havin' me indorse your note fer one-fifty. Rec'lect that?"
Thacher's face quickly lost its smile and took back its worried look. She evidently was in no mood for joking. "Poor Billy!" said she, "he was called the smartest boy in school; I rec'lect that one of the teachers urged his folks to let him go to college; but 't wa'n't no use; they hadn't the money and couldn't get it, and 't wa'n't in him to work his way as some do.
"You asked me once if anything out of the ordinary took place that night I dined at the Fox home. Do you remember?" "Yes, I rec'lect I did ask you something like that. But " "You may also recall that you suggested that what happened to Mr. Fox took place in his head instead of in his heart." "Yes, I said that, too. But, Mack " "Just wait, and I'll tell you what this is all about.
"I rec'lect it was o' Wednesday, the one next before the dedication, an' windy-cold an' wintry. I'd been havin' a walk that day, an' 'long about five o'clock, right about where we are, I'd stood watchin' the sunset over the Pump pasture there, till I was chilled through.
"All right," he answered, wiping his forehead; "if you'll let me alone, I'll be there." At a dingy saloon corner, near the river, a shabby little man greeted him heartily and petted the mongrel. "I'm mighty glad you didn't go, after all, Joe," he added, with a brightening face. "Go where, Happy?" Mr. Fear looked grave. "Don't you rec'lect meetin' me last night?" Louden shook his head. "No. Did I?"
I rec'lect when Shorty was a mighty promisin' young fellow before Brad Steelman got a-holt of him. He punched cows for me twenty years ago. He hadn't took the wrong turn then. You cayn't travel crooked trails an' not reach a closed pocket o' the hills sometime." For several minutes they had heard the creaking of a wagon working up an improvised road toward the camp. Now it moved into sight.
One reason is 'cause I'm always comin' on somethin' new. I ain't no tied-down man. Here I've dropped into the Garden o' Eden that's been lost fur thousands o' years, an' tomorrow I may be findin' some other wonder. I rec'lect my feelin' the first time I saw the Ohio, an' I've looked too upon the big river that the warriors call the Father o' Waters.
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