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"It shore otter turn out big tew pay us for all this work," and Ham's glance slowly wandered over the huge piles of rocks and dirt that their shovels and strong arms had reared, "but thar's no countin' on what it'll do. 'Twouldn't s'prise me none, if we took out a wagon load of gold; an', ag'in, 'twouldn't s'prise me none, if we didn't take out a thimble load.
But Beriah didn't shake. Just stood still. "I've got a s'prise for you, shipmate," goes on Eben. "Who did you say that lady was?" Beriah didn't answer. I begun to think that some of the wet had soaked through the assistant prophet's skull and had give him water on the brain. "You called her Mis' Kelly, didn't you?" gurgled Eben. "Wall, that ain't her name.
"These I call my best things, dear," she said. "You'd laugh to see how we enjoy 'em Sunday nights in winter: we have a real company tea 'stead o' livin' right along just the same, an' I make somethin' good for a s'prise an' put on some o' my preserves, an' we get a'talkin' together an' have real pleasant times." Mrs. Todd laughed indulgently, and looked to see what I thought of such childishness.
"Oh," begged the girl, eagerly, "may n't I take it to him?" "Dat yo' may, honey," acceded the black, yielding to the spell of the lass. "Massa allus radder see a pooty face dan black ole Billy's. Jus' yo' run along with it, chile, an' s'prise him." Catching up the waiter, the maiden carried it to the parlour, which she entered after knocking, in response to Washington's behest.
It ain't so awful far f'm what these boys say. We'll have to foot it, anyway, for quite some distance, if we want to s'prise 'em." When the place where the wood-road turned off was reached the sheriff decided to leave the horses. "One o' you boys stay here now with the deputy an' help guard these horses," instructed the sheriff. "Which'll it be?"
Then, darting out at him from the corner where she had been hiding: "S'prise! S'prise!" His plump blond face, flushed with the unwonted heat, went darkly red. He dropped his hat. His arms gathered her in. Her fresh young cheek was pressed against his dear prickly one. So they stood for a long minute close. "Need a shave, dad." "Well, gosh, how did I know my best girl was coming!" He held her off.
"Aw, that's because Shunky Cheestely chased him all the way up from the corral a minute ago," Happy Jack explained the phenomenon. "I betcher he swaps ends some uh these times and gives that dog the s'prise of his life. He come purty near makin' a stand t'night."
I heard it as I came back. You're quite a famous character in Dawson to- night, 'Poleon dear, what with this and with Frenchman's Hill." "Ho! Dat Frenchman' Hill," the man broke out, hurriedly. "It's beeg s'prise for us, eh? Pierce told you 'bout dat?" "Pierce?" The girl shook her head vaguely. "You 'member I stake two claim', one for you, one for me. By golly! ma soeur, you're millionaire."
"Just for fun," said Micky. "It would have been a very agreeable s'prise if it had hit me," said Dick. "S'posin' I fire a rock at you jest for fun." "Don't!" exclaimed Micky, in alarm. "It seems you don't like agreeable s'prises," said Dick, "any more'n the man did what got hooked by a cow one mornin', before breakfast. It didn't improve his appetite much."
"Why, of course! He's too valuable to leave anywheres. Leave a Best Baby! That's the s'prise! He's a prize baby, Elly Precious is! I've got it in my pocket!" "I've got to take him home an' bed him down!" Horsey little Evangeline! "Then I'll come back an' show it to you. Isn't it puffectly elegant that he took a prize! We've had the best time!"
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