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Besides, even if I'd dared, I should have had no chance to straighten matters out; for though the flag-episode was after all no fault of Slaney's, there were a few little things which had escaped even his Napoleonic memory; and it was only by combining the feats of an acrobat with those of a juggler that I saved my reputation during the next half hour.
'Serve you right if she chucks you now, said Jinny. 'I'll bet it's right about Annie Nixon an' you. 'Tha bets so much, said Harry. 'Yi but you can't deny it, said Jinny. 'I can if I've a mind. His father looked at him inquiringly. 'It's no more mine than it is Bill Bower's, or Ted Slaney's, or six or seven on 'em, said Harry to his father. And the father nodded silently.
Biggs's, and past Lee's garden, leaving old Slaney's stacks on your right hand, and so cutting on till you come to Grants's meadow, when you'll see old Madhunter a brick-field staring of you in the face; and, arter that " "Peace peace! you shall yourself conduct me.
"The last o' Slaney's kids 'passed in' last night. Guess we're goin' to bury her." Buck nodded. He had no words. But he carefully avoided looking in the direction of Slaney Dick, who sat in a far corner smoking his pipe and hugging his great knees. Beasley went on in the same half-mocking tone "Guess it's up to me to read the service over her." "You!" Buck could not help the ejaculation.
Slaney, who was using a line as thick as signal-halliards, was the first to haul his fish over the side, and drop him, kicking and thrashing like a young porpoise, into the boat; the rest of us, whose tackle was much thinner, were a long way behind him, and Slaney's line was over the side again before our fish were laid beside the first arrival.
He glanced round for approval and found it in every eye except Slaney's. The bereaved father seemed utterly indifferent to anything except his own thoughts, which were of the little waxen face he had watched grow paler and paler in his arms only yesterday morning, until he had laid the poor little dead body in his weeping woman's lap. Buck felt the time had come for him to interpose.
"The Padre buried the others?" he said questioningly. It was Dick's partner, Abe Allinson, who took it upon himself to answer. "Y' see the Padre's done a heap. Slaney's missis didn't guess we'd orter worrit him. That's how she said." Buck suddenly swung round on Beasley. "Fix it for to-morrow, an' the Padre'll be right along." He looked the ex-Churchman squarely in the eye.
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