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"Land sakes! Cap'n Abe gone away? Don't seem possible." "There's a hull lot of seemin' impossible things in this world that come to pass just the same," the substitute storekeeper made answer, with some tartness. "Here's the needle drawer. Find what you want, ma'am." Louise was frankly spying. She saw that the customer was a lanky young woman in a sunbonnet.
They ain't; but Jule who esteems said gesture in the nacher of a caress seemin' to favour the idee, I lets my arm stay 'round. A moment later an' this yere villain Dobbin bolts the third time, an' as I've sort o' got my one arm tangled up with Jule, he lams into a oak tree. "'It's then, when we're plumb to a halt, I does hear a flutter. At that I gets down to investigate.
In the door is standin' a most ornery seemin' gent, with long, tangled ha'r an' beard, an' his clothes looks like he's shorely witnessed times. The hands of this ha'ry gent is in his pockets, an' he exhibits a mighty soopercilious air. Bill pulls up his cayouse for a powwow. "How far is it to a place where I can camp down for the night? asks Bill.
"'Now! says Mis' Merriman, rill triumphant. "'Land, land! s'I, seein' how it rilly was. "Timothy an' Silas, they both pitched in an' talked at once an' bent down, technical, lookin' for tracks. But Eb, he just begun seemin' peculiar an' then he slipped off somewheres, though we never missed him, till, in a minute, he come runnin' back. "'Come here! he says.
You have only to call him in your own way, and he will come at once." "What wad ye hae me perswaud him till, sir? To onything 'at's richt, Gibbie wants nae perswaudin'; an' for this 'at's atween ye, the laddies are jist verra brithers, an' I hae no richt to interfere wi' what the tane wad for the tither, the thing seemin' to me rizon eneuch." "What sort of lad is this son of yours?
An' when I set here an' look at it, an' consider its propensities, it's got five limbs that seem thess constructed to hold swings, maybe it's 'cause I was raised Presbyterian an' sort o' can't git shet o' the doctrine o' predestination, but I can't help seemin' to fo'-see them friendly family limbs all fulfillin' their promises.
Aimlessly, yet seemin' to have a hidden purpose as though wreathin' the figures of some Boreal dance, it come near us and fell back; moved away an' threatened again; then swept upon us till its icy breathin' gripped our throats, an' our hearts stood still. "An' in the silence, one dog whined.
"Then he goes upstairs, leaning on the balusters, and gets his four ten-dollar bills that had been folded away all neat at the bottom of his trunk, and before I could think of anythin' wholesome to say I was that scandalised they was goin' off across the street to the Horseshoe Gamin' Parlour, this feller Hoover seemin' very sanguine and asking Bernal whether he was sure they was a party in town could do it up right after they'd went and won the money for it.
'Thank you, said the doctor. 'I will make a note of it. 'It wants nerve, seemin' to me. Roger Olver rubbed his chin. 'That is understood. 'For my part, if it happened I had a stick, I'd slash out at the beggar's forelegs so an' keep slashin' same as if I was mowin' grass. Or, if I hadn' a stick, I'd kick straight for his forelegs an' chest; he's easy to cripple there, an' he knows it.
"'Tis a cruel thing to order," said he, "and my limbs be old; but seemin' to me I might manage it." He began to climb laboriously, rope in hand. As his eyes drew level with the wall's coping he saw to his joy Trevarthen's troop returning along the road, though not from the direction he had expected. Better still, the next moment they saw him on the bough, dark against the red sky.
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