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Updated: June 21, 2025
They were all so surprised at the idea of freedom that they could hardly credit the fact until their own people confirmed what I had told them. Rations were given to that hungry company at once. I told them this did not look like killing off colored people. "No, missus, dis 'pears like makin' alive, instead of killin'. God bless sich people as dese, if dis be Yankees."
Didn't I see 'im kneelin' by my little Bennie's bed, twenty years ago come next June, with the tears runnin' down his cheeks as he axed the Good Lord to spare the little lad to us a while longer. Mark my word, Stevie, them people who are tellin' sich stories about that man 'ill come to no good. 'Henry, says she, 'the parson is the Lord's anointed.
"We are able to live barely able to live," she exclaimed; "an' thanks be to God we have our health; but the Daltons oh! they'll never get through what they're sufferin'; an' that girl oh! mother, sich a girl as that is how little does the world know of the heart that beautiful craythur has. May the mercy of God rest upon her!
An' he was about Jim Soolivan's size, an' dhressed out exactly the same, wid a ridin' coat an' new corderhoys; so they carried him home, an' they were all as sure as daylight it was Jim Soolivan himself, an' they were wondhering he'd do sich a dirty turn as to go kill himself for spite.
She's a gittin' them same kind o' sorter interestin' high-flowed ways why, she used to be just like the rest of 'em jest sich a rompin', roarin' thing as Drussilly Weir is now." "Goodness gracious, ma!" Madeline put in again, sharply. "What good is it going to do Beck Weir to put on airs?
"The rest of the mutinous ones were not quite sich fools when it came to the last pinch, an' I'm allowin' we're well rid of those who have gone, save that they can carry information to St. Leger of a kind he'll be glad to receive."
"What post would suit you?" inquired the visitor. "The diocese of New York?" "No, no," said the father. "I'm not ayqual to sich a risponsebility; that is, not at wanst, ye ondherstand. I'd like best to come up to sich a place as that gintly an' by degrays.
"O morther! then may I niver sleep on a bed made o' sich feathers!" cried O'Riley, capering up to Green, the carpenter's mate, and throwing a mass of snow in his face. The frost rendered it impossible to form the snow into balls, but the men made up for this by throwing it about each other's eyes and ears in handfuls.
Then, why must fo'ks raise sich a cavortment 'bout lovin' God hollahin' an' whoopin' an' sprawlin' 'roun' on the ground lak Sal Fox did thet las' time I wuz et the camp?
"This is unfortunate," muttered Jacques, as the party landed and endeavoured to wring some of the water from their dripping clothes; "an' the worst of it is that our guns are useless after sich a duckin', an' the varmint knows that, an' will be down on us in a twinklin'." "But we are four to one," exclaimed Harry. "Surely we don't need to fear much from a single enemy."
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