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"Listen at me because ye knows in yore heart I hain't lyin'. I'm tellin' ther whole truth thet I was afeared ter tell afore. I let him take ther blame because I was skeered an' because ther baby was goin' ter be borned. I hain't nuver been no liar, Will, an' I hain't one now!"
Be keerful ter say frequently thet the yankees is awful sick o' their job o' holdin' Nashville; that their new Dutch Gineral is a mean brute, an' a coward beside, thet he's skeered 'bout out'n his wits half the time, an' he's buildin' the biggest kind o' forts to hide behind, an' thet he won't dar show his nose outside o' them leastways not this 'ere Winter.
"'Cos I hadn't got any more bullets," was the frank answer; and on examination of his powder pouch, we found such to be the case. "What have you done with your ammunition?" "Vell, I had to live on something, so I used to shoot into flocks of parrots; but I've skeered 'em all hoff, I believe." "And why did you not try to get hold of a sheep?
"I ain't afeared o' the devil fur sech ez that. I wouldn't be skeered a mite ef he war ter ter ter speak right out now agin it, an' I'll be bound ez all o' you uns would. I I look yander look!" He had thrown himself into a posture of amazed intentness and was pointing upward at the overhanging boughs of a tree above their heads. A squirrel was poised thereon, gazing down motionless.
"Look hyah, Koku," he went on when he got to the kitchen. "Quit stuffin' dat 'ar pie an' go out an' see ef Massa Tom all right. He ought t' have bin in de house long sence. I'se skeered mebbe some villains mought've cotched him!" "Whoo!" growled the giant, jumping up so quickly that his big, specially-built chair crashed over. "Where um war-club? Me fixum!"
"The look in her eyes and the sound of her voice skeered me, and I saw that the quicker I got her out o' the old cabin the better. I put my hand on her shoulder, and says I, 'Hush, Mary. Get up and come back to the house; but don't let the children hear you takin' on so. You might skeer little Harvey.
"At last the Delawareans marched on Johnson's Cross-roads an' cleaned his Pangymonum thar out, an' guarded him, and sixteen pore niggers in chains he'd kidnapped, to Georgetown jail. Young John M. Clayton was paid by the Phildelfy Quakers to git him convicted. Johnson was strong in the county we're in it now, Sussex an' if Clayton hadn't skeered the jury almost to death, it would have disagreed.
Did you ever see his beat to go swimmin'? He's always in splashin'! Been at it all his life. I used to be skeered when he was a little tyke. He soaked so much 'peared like he'd wash all the substance out of him, but it only made him strong." "Has he ever been ill?" "Not that I know of, and I reckon I'd knowed it if he had. Well what a clothespress! I never saw so many dresses at once.
Keep that woman here! It's too late to send her back." The boy-major saluted, then turned to the girl again: "Who are you?" he asked, vexed. She seemed unable to reply. A cannoneer said respectfully: "Reckon the li'l gal's jes' natch'ally skeered o' we-uns, Major, seein' how the caval'y ketched her paw down thar in the crick."
But them Chinks was the gratefullest gang yer ever seen. They brought us presents; things ter eat fruit, poultry, eggs, an' all sorts of chow, some of it mighty funny lookin', but it tasted all right; we lived high, we three. The other fellers was wild ter know how we woiked it. An' I tell yer I ain't never been skeered o' ghosts sence that is, not ter speak of much!"
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