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"Why but it's all water underneath!" she exclaimed at last. "Ef we was to fall now, we'd be drowned!" "Now don't you be a mite skeert," said Droop, with reassuring politeness. "We've ben scootin' along like this all night an' an' the fact is, I've got the kettle on p'raps it's b'iled over." Rebecca turned from the window at once and made for the kitchen.
'Twas hard to make out anythin', for the water was all a white, bilin' churn, and the spray flyin' fit to blind you; but bimeby I co't sight of her comin' swashin' along, now up on top of a big roarer, and then scootin' down into the holler, and then up agin. I crep' out on the rocks, grippin' 'em for all I was wuth, with the boat-hook under my arm.
My man come up for a wrench, and 'Who do you think's a scootin' around down on the Bay? says he. 'Wall, it's Dave Rollin, says he; 'in the purtiest little craft, that runs jest like a picter, and he said they couldn't see but two men aboard of her then; he guessed they wan't many.
He's jest hankerin' fur a cow pony to round him up and send him scootin' back to the bunch. Dang my hide! jest look at that tail of his'n a-wavin'. Never knowed a steer to wave his tail any other way, dang my hide ef I did."
He's a bug about so long" he stuck out a finger "and he's got jaws like a crab and a long limber tail a with reg'lar needle in the end, and inside him is a roll o' tough silk tough as spider web. And he's death on liars. Any time a feller tells a lie he's got to look out, or all to oncet one o' them bugs'll come scootin' at him and grab him by the nose with them jaws.
"Amarilly, we air agoin' to live in the country!" "Let me explain," said the Boarder, usually slow and easy going, but now alert and enthusiastic of mien and speech. "We've got a chance, Amarilly, to sell this place and make quite a profit. That new factory that's agoin' up acrost the alley has sent real estate scootin'. With what we git fer it, we kin make a big payment on a farm.
"As I's a comin' in f'om a huntin' I tuck notice 'at somepin' was up. I see a lot o' boats on the river an' some fellers wi' guns a scootin' around, so I jes' slipped by 'em all an' come in the back way. They's plenty of 'em, I tell you what! I can't shoot much, but I tuck one chance at a buck Indian out yander and jes' happened to hit 'im in the lef' eye.
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