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"'Well, sez he. "'An' ye remember how the children used to watch ye an' wonder what ye was makin'! "'Sartinly, sez he. "'An' how they used to pick up the shavin's ye planed off, an' brung them inter the house. "He kalkerlated he did. "'Well then, sez I, 'John, them children didn't understan' what ye was makin', but they could pick up the shavin's an' make use of 'em.
"Would you give my compliments, and ask would they allow me, under the present peculiar circumstances, to join them? and in the meantime, send somebody down the road to take the cushions out of my gig; for there is no use in attempting to get the gig out till morning." "Sartinly, Misther Murphy, we'll send for the cushions; but as for the gentlemen, they are all on the other side."
"Sartinly I know, an' that's why I'm talkin' jist as I am. I don't very often git roused up, but when I do it takes more'n you to stop me. An' I am roused at the way ye've treated that gal ye call yer daughter. Ye've been buyin' an sellin' so long that yer heart is nuthin' more'n a bank account. An' ye weren't satisfied with tradin' in lumber, but ye even want to sell yer only daughter.
"You have killed a man." The stranger looked steadily back into the trapper's face, and answered as simply, "Yes, I am a murderer." Herbert started a trifle. The girl gave a slight exclamation and lifted her hand as if in protest. The trapper alone made reply, "Ye sartinly don't look like a murderer, friend." "He is none! he is none!" exclaimed the girl.
But tell your wife she shan't lose anything, and the next time I go to town I'll leave that settin' of eggs she wanted. Now, Jonathan, honor bright, do you feel able to walk home if I give you fifty cents extra?" "Why, sartinly! S'pose I'd take yer away on sich a 'casion? My wife wouldn't let me in if she knowed it."
Three miles from heah the blue-coats are swarmin' thicker'n bees in a field o' buckwheat." "Three miles from here! Is our army within three miles of here?" "Hit sartinly is, an' the Lord-awfullest crowd o' men an' guns an' hosses thet ever tromped down the grass o' this ere airth. Why, hit jest dazed my eyes ter look at 'em. Come ter this other winder.
No one suspected who he was, an' so he used to come an' go in a most mysterious manner, to their way of thinkin'." "What did he call himself?" Reynolds asked. "I'll come to that later, young man," and Samson slyly tipped him a warning wink. "We'll jist call him Redmond fer the present. He sartinly did have a great time of it, an' no one was the wiser.
In de mean while, my man, McDermot, shall keep de house in his eye, an' mus' hab de liberty of lodgment. "Den Mr. Bainrofe he say, 'Oh, sartinly your man, McDermot, am welcome to his bite an' sup, an' all he kin fine out' an' he laughed, an' dey parted, mighty pleasant-like, and den he called Mrs. Raymun' and Mass' Gregory, an' I listened again. Dat's our colored way for reformation, child.
"An' so ye was over thar, young man? Wall, that's sartinly interestin'. Fer how long?" "Nearly four years. I enlisted at the beginning of the war." "An' come through all right?" "Look," and Reynolds bared his left arm, showing a great scar. "I have several more on my body, some worse than that." "Ye don't tell! My, I'm glad I've met ye. Got some medals, I s'pose."
"Well, it is getting dark, old Tommy, sartinly," he said apologetically. "Dark as Davy Jones's locker," growled Tom. "I wants to find Muster Leigh as much as anybody, but you can't look if you can't see." "That's a true word anyhow," said one of the men.
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