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I save myself, sp'ose, for stahvation." "Wait till you come down to my condition," faltered the proprietor, making emphasis with his meagre finger "I have been my own enemy; the Yankees will but finish what is almost consummated now. I tell you, boys, I expect to die in this room; I shall never quit this bed. I have no fortitude; I am afraid of death!"
The thunder, no longer a mutter, became one terrific peal after another, and the lightning burned across the great stream in flash after flash. "I sp'ose it's jest the same ez bein' at sea," said Sol between crashes. "I don't know much choice between bein' drowned in the Mississippi, which I know is muddy, an' the sea, which they say is salt."
"Good Lord!" he said a little later, "it you fellers will talk one at a time, p'r'aps I can make out what's happened. Now, Sammy, sp'ose you do the speaking?" Whereupon Sammy faithfully chronicled the events of the day.
That, as they all knew by inheritance from the "shooings" which their forefathers had suffered, meant that they would no longer be allowed in the kitchen to pick up crumbs. At last Mrs. Gammit spoke but with difficulty, for it came hard to her to ask advice of any one. "I sp'ose now, mebbe, Mr. Barron, you know more about the woods critters'n what I do?" she inquired, hopefully but doubtfully.
"Oh, I sp'ose I'd rilly ought to hev an introduction before I jump up an' down, hadn't I?" "No need in the world, Calliope," he told her; "come on. I'll jump, too." And that was an added joy that he had read and re-read that one Friendship letter of mine, written on the night of Delia More's return, until it was as if he, too, knew Calliope.
Them poor little things 'way past their supper hour. "'An' none of 'em got mothers, says Mis' Sturgis, 'just left 'round with lockets on, I sp'ose, an' wrecked an' hungry.... "'An' one o' 'em lame, Mame Holcomb puts in, down on her knees tryin' to sort out her overshoes. The Sodality never could tell its own overshoes.
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