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His visitor stopped chuckling and scowled instead. Jed beamed gratification. "That's it," he said. "Now you look more natural. Feelin' a little better . . . eh?" The Babbitt chin beard bristled. Its wearer leaned forward. "Shut up," he commanded. "I ain't takin' any of your sass this afternoon, Shavin's, and I ain't cal'latin' to waste much time on you, neither. You know where I'm bound now?
And there'd been a pile of shavin's there, too, and there'd been kerosene on 'em. Who smashed the bottle over in the field, hey?" Captain Eri seemed to be thinking. "Web" evidently set his own interpretation on this silence, for he went on, raising his voice as he did so. "Did you think I was fool enough not to know who set that fire? I knew the night she burned, and when I met Dr.
I would have known better if I'd been anybody but Shavin's Winslow. HE ain't responsible." "Hush, Jed, hush! But why did you say you had kept it?" "Eh? Oh, that was Sam's doin's. He commenced to ask questions, and, the first thing I knew, he had me on the spider fryin' over a hot fire. The more I sizzled and sputtered and tried to get out of that spider, the more he poked up the fire.
Besides, if you knew so much why have you been waitin' all this time before you told it? If you found out all this this pack of rubbish in January why did you wait till March before you told it? Humph! That's pretty thin, I " Phineas interrupted. "Shut up!" he ordered. "Why did I wait? Well, now, Shavin's, seein' it's you and I love you so, I'll tell you.
Sometimes dey'd pull up at de sho' en take a res' b'fo' dey started acrost, so by de talk I got to know all 'bout de killin'. I 'uz powerful sorry you's killed, Huck, but I ain't no mo' now. "I laid dah under de shavin's all day.
"'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.
John, sez I, 'hasn't the parson been droppin' shavin's fer over thirty years, an' not allus in the pulpit either, an' haven't we ben helped 'cause we picked 'em up an' made 'em our own? John said I was right, an' he knows, dear soul." "That may be all very well fer you an' John," replied Mrs.
"'Whose side-saddle is this? "'Slim Sall Dowdie's. "'Shift it on to the deacon's beast, and put his on to her'n and tie the two critters together by the tail. This is old Mother Pitcher's waggon; her hoss kicks like a grasshopper. Lengthen the breechin', and when aunty starts, he'll make all fly agin into shavin's, like a plane. Who is that a comin' along full split there a horseback?
"And I'll jest be tellin' him that 'bout twelve, to-morrow. I sure wisht Billy was here. He'd sure be glad to know his ole pal was cookin' for his brother. Me for the shavin's. And say, thanks, pardner. Reckon they ain't all jokers in Arizona." "No. There are a few that can't make or take one," said Corliss. "Hope you'll make the ranch all right." "I'm there!
"'Whose side-saddle is this? "'Slim Sall Dowdie's. "'Shift it on to the deacon's beast, and put his on to her'n and tie the two critters together by the tail. This is old Mother Pitcher's waggon; her hoss kicks like a grasshopper. Lengthen the breechin', and when aunty starts, he'll make all fly agin into shavin's, like a plane. Who is that a comin' along full split there a horseback?
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