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I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come. But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay. Then we got out, and I was in a sweat to get away; but nothing would do Tom but he must crawl to where Jim was, on his hands and knees, and play something on him.
It's too much resk!" "It's al'ays a resk to do your duty," said Uncle William. "Jump in. I can't stand talkin'." An edge of impatience grazed the words. The man stepped in and seized the oars. "I'll help get her off," he said, "but I won't go." In the green light of the harbor a smile played over Uncle William's face grotesquely. He gave a shove to the boat and sprang in.
I seemed kind of hard, 'Tenty, them days, but I had feelin' enough." "I don't doubt but what you had, Aunt 'Viny; only one can't see far ahead, you know, when it rains. I'm sure I've been as happy as a clam these last six years, and I don't calculate to resk that by gettin' married, never. Besides, I've learned what you used to call the grass's lesson, pretty well."
"No; but he said turn west on the first road we came to," counseled Bobaday. "And this is the first, I counted," said aunt Corinne. "I wish we could see the cover ahead of us. We don't want to resk gettin' separated," said Grandma Padgett. Yet she turned the horses westward with a degree of confidence, and drove up into a hilly country which soon hid the sun.
Yis, I knowed 'twould be a close shave ef ye got 'em, and I feared ye would run a resk that ye oughtn't to run, in yer love for the dogs." "I didn't propose to leave the dogs to die," responded the young man; "I think I should have heard their cries in my ears for a year, had they been burned to death in the shanty where we left them." "Ye speak with right feelin', Herbert," replied the trapper.
"That's good sporting blood," nodded Bearover. "I don't suppose you ever bet?" "Oh, I don't go raound lookin' for bets. I 'low it ain't jest good sense for anybody to resk money on onsartinties. Speckerlation and gamblin' has ruined lots of folks." "But a little wager on a baseball game, or any game of chance or skill, adds spice to it," suggested the manager of the Rovers.
Well, I just believe he fell in, and he was afeared he was drowndin' and that's why he hollered out. Don't you, mother?" "Yes, I do, Joey." "And you think I done right, don't you, to try to help him, even if it was some resk?" "Oh, yes." "I knowed it was some resk, but I didn't believe it was much, and I kind of thought you'd want me to." "Oh, yes, yes," his mother said. "You did right, Joey.
Yis, the smoke thickens; ef I didn't know that the boy would act with jedgment, and that he's onusually sarcumspect, I would sartinly feel worried about him. I hope he won't do anything resky for the sake of the pups. Ef he can't git 'em, he can't; and I trust he won't resk the life of a man for a couple of dogs." With these words the trapper relapsed into silence.
"'I'll take a chance on a bowie knife, says Moon to Dan Boggs, Dan, bein' a sympathetic gent an' takin' nacherally to folks in trouble, has Moon's confidence from the jump; 'I'll take a chance on a bowie knife; an' as for a gun, I simply courts the resk.
But he screwed his courage to the sticking place, not by quoting to himself the adage, "Faint heart never won fair lady," which, indeed, he had never heard, but by reminding himself that "ef you don't resk notin' you'll never git nothin'." So, when the spelling-school had adjourned, he sidled up to her, and, looking dreadfully solemn and a little foolish, he said: "Kin I see you safe home?"
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