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"Ah, Reub, Ben, and Will," she said, "when will you be such good boys as Patsy and Geny? You can't say the Lord's Prayer yet." "I can tell," said Reub, blushing, "more than Pat can. I know how old Mathusalem was, who was the wife of Abraham, and who was the mother of Solomon, and the wife of Putiphar."
"And drawn and quartered," amended the doctor, grimly. "That is the penalty for treason, I believe." "Perhaps," said Perez. "We shall see. There will be fighting before hanging. At any rate, if I'm hung, it will be as long as it's short, for Reub would have died if I hadn't got him out of jail." The doctor gathered up the reins. "I want to thank you for coming," said Perez.
By this time I had learned that my horse Tall Bull was a remarkably fast runner, and therefore when Lieutenant Mason, who was quite a sport and owned a racer, challenged me to a race, I immediately accepted it. We were to run our horses a single dash of half a mile for one hundred dollars a side. Several of the officers, and also Reub.
By and by Straw-top comes down again, and I crossed the street to meet him, for I had my ideas. Yes, sir, when I got close I could see where he overdone it. He was Reub all right as far as his blue jeans and cowhide boots went, but he had a matinee actor's hands, and the rye straw stuck over his ear looked like it belonged to the property man of the Old Homestead Co.
They seems kinder slimpsy; hain't got no grit." During this talk, Elnathan had risen and gone feebly out. "Elnathan seems tew take it tew heart baout leavin the ole place. I hearn ez how Solomon Gleason's goin ter sell him aout pooty soon," Abner remarked. "I guess t'ain't so much that as 'tis the bad news he's heerd baout Reub daown tew Barrington jail," said Obadiah Weeks.
"'Gladly, says I; 'I am a silent man by birth and training, and my thoughts is jewels, but for you, I'll scatter them at large, and you can take your pick. Now, this salmon business ain't what it's cracked up to be, after all. It's a smelly proposition, no matter how you take it, and a fisherman ain't much better than a Reub; ask any wise guy.
Had I been able to recall the next sentence, I should have prompted him. "It is sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France," said the orator, rapidly. And down deep back among the men came a voice, "Well, I guess it must be, Reub." This snapped the tension. I saw Reuben's boots march away; Mr.
"He picked her up not twenty furlongs from Hell-deeps after she had missed the Little Meadows by the skin of her teeth." "How in the name of good Providence she got near enough to miss it, being where she was, is the marvel to me," said another. "She did, anyway," said the coxswain; "for Reub himself called down the news to me in so many words."
The invalid looked at her a moment without replying, and just then the door of the kitchen opened, and Young Camp came in and began to gather some food from the table on a plate. "Why don't you bring him to the table, Reub?" his sister called to him. "Oh, he says he'd rather not come in, as long as we have company. He says he isn't dressed for dinner; left his spike-tail in the city."
'Tis a wine-hogshead; the best port-wine in the commonwealth have been in that there cask; and you shall have en for ten shillens, Reub, 'a said, says he 'he's worth twenty, ay, five-and-twenty, if he's worth one; and an iron hoop or two put round en among the wood ones will make en worth thirty shillens of any man's money, if "
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