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Someone suggested that Sal's own boat, the Indefatigable Woman, would be lying off Runnell's Yard; and down to the waterside they all ran, Pengelly gripping the tailor by the arm. They found the gig moored there on a frape, dragged her to shore, and tumbled in. Half a dozen men seized and shipped the oars: the tailor pitched forward and driven to take the bow oar.
Pinky raised her hand to her swollen cheek. "Does it look very bad?" she asked. "Spoils your beauty some." "Will it get black?" "Shouldn't wonder. But what can't be helped, can't. You'll mind your own business next time, and keep out of Sal's way. She's dangerous. What's the matter?" "Got a sort of chill," replied the girl, who from nervous reaction was beginning to shiver.
"I don't know," says Sal, "that I've any complaints to make, except that I was born a woman. That I went on to marry that pea-green tailor yonder is my own fault, and we'll say no more about it." By this time all the women on the tender were following Sal's example and unshredding their back-hair.
I saw now the same light pass over Sal's face that I had often seen in William's, yet they could not agree about their one Heavenly Father.
"Oh oh well rowed all!" and letting the delight run out of them in little sobs of laughter. The crowd ashore, too, was laughing and shouting itself hoarse. I'm sorry to say a few of them jeered at the Nonpareil as she crawled home: but, on the whole, the men of Saltash took their beating handsome. This don't include Sal's husband, though.
He, therefore, trailed us to Rochester and dropped it into Nyoda's pocket when she sat in the restaurant eating lunch. Of course, we did not find out everyone of these facts in the police station that day, although I am telling them as if we did. One of Sal's companions later turned state's evidence and it was from her statement that we got the whole story.
New windows, new steps, new everything!" She was helped gently down, and Rose was there to greet her. How happy Rose looked! And there was Sal's mother in the background, and then came Dinney and Hunkie. "Ain't it fine!" cried Dinney. Gloria looked at the boy and laughed. "Look at the new stairs!" They took her here and there, then made her rest a moment in Rose's room.
Uncle Peter fiddled, Patsy nodded and laughed, the girl with crooked feet by way of increasing the bedlam would sometimes draw a file across the stove-pipe, while Miss Grundy scolded, and declared "she could not and would not have such a noise." "Shut your head, madam, and there'll be less," was Sal's ready rejoinder, as at the end of a verse she paused for breath.
The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement was an ass. There was some conjecture as to fitness, but the experiment was tried. It was less problematical than the ancient treatment of Romulus and Remus, and apparently as successful.
"'I'll do de foolin', sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'ef you'll do de gamin', sezee. "'How you gwine do it? sez Brer Fox, sezee. "'You run 'long home, en git on de bed, en make like you dead, en don't you say nothin' twel Brer Rabbit come en put his han's onter you, sez Brer Wolf, sezee, 'en ef we don't git 'im fer supper, Joe's dead en Sal's a widder, sezee.
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