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"`Fire! sez the captain; and, in a moment, the whole starboard broadside was fired off, point blank across the water, in a line with the deck, as Captain Manter had ordered us to depress the guns, the old Amphitrite rocking to her keel with the explosion.
He muttered sunthin' about thinkin' what he wuz a mindter. And I turned to Arvilly and sez, to git her mind off: "See that native, Arvilly, standin' up on that board!" For as our good ship bore us onward we see crowds of natives standin' up on little tottlin' boards, dartin' through the water every which way, risin' and fallin' on the waves. I couldn't done it to save my life.
Whethen now, you don't suppose I've been payin' you full wages, that hasn't done a stroke of work worth namin' this half-dozen year? That'ill have to contint you till Ned's back agin. "And Barney sez my father had ne'er a word out of him, but just went home dazed like. And me wife sez when he come in, he sits down on the form be the door, and niver opens his lips.
Howsumever," sez I, "I don't say but what that power is powerful, to the ones that have it, only I wuz merely observin' that it never wuz my way to lay speechless or holler much not that I consider hollerin' wrong, if you holler from principle, but I never seemed to have a call to." "You would be far better if you did," sez Trueman's wife, "far better. But you hain't good enough."
"But," sez she, after she had got all through with the rest of her complaints "if the white stripes wuz where the black wuz, and the black where the white wuz, she should like it quite well." And there it wuz, even check, two and two. Wall, that wuz a sample of her doin's. If anybody had a Roman nose she wanted a Greecy one. And if the nose wuz Greece, why then she wanted Rome.
Mudd-Weakdew will stand no impudence; he builds up a wall of separation between himself and them that can't be broke down, just as he has a right to." Sez I, "Mebby it can't be broke down, but the wrongs and sufferin's of one class is apt to react on the other."
But served him right, sez I, for trying to beat his outfitter, after eating his grub for two years!" "But didn't he receive anything?" inquired Mrs. Campbell. "That seems to me pretty sharp practice." She was a prim little woman, with honest blue eyes that sometimes made men think of their sins, and when Dusty Rhodes perceived that he had gone a bit too far he endeavored to justify his spleen.
"Ez how? you sez," said Bill, catching at the hook. "I drives up yer some night, and you sez to me, 'Bill, hev you got two seats over to the Divide for me and aunty out on a pasear. And I sez, 'I happen to hev one inside and one on the box with me. And you hands out yer traps and any vallybles ye don't want ter leave, and you puts your aunt inside, and gets up on the box with me.
Well, we had a good deal more of jest such profitable and interestin' talk as two such great wimmen would naterally, and we parted away from each other with a cordial hand shake and mutual good feelin'. But she called me back and sez she: "I want to give you one word of solemn warnin' before we part," and I stopped stun still and listened. "I don't know," sez she, "as you'll ever be a queen."
Hev you enny objection to give him a lift on the box beside you? I sez, 'No; put him up. When I came to go and get up on that box beside him, that man, Tommy, that man sittin' there, quiet and peaceable, was Johnson! "He didn't know me, my boy," Yuba Bill continued, rising and putting his hands on Tommy's shoulders, "he didn't know me.
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