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An' in watchin' him, of course, I couldn't see the three men go fer their guns. An' though I was lookin' right at Lassiter lookin' hard I couldn't see how he drawed. He was quicker 'n eyesight thet's all. But I seen the red spurtin' of his guns, en' heard his shots jest the very littlest instant before I heard the shots of the riders.
"Why, that's the nature of this machine," he replied. "Ye see, it runs on the rocket principle by spurtin' out gases. Ef we want to go up off the ground we squirt out under the machine an' that gives us a h'ist. Then, when we get 'way up high, we spread out a pair o' big wings like and start the propeller at the stern end o' the thing.
What makes you grin so, you backwoods koonisquat?" "Wall, stranger, if you will insist on knowin'," said he, "It's sympathy that makes me grin. I do like to see human natur' out of its go-to-meetin' togs, with its saddle off, an' no bridal on, spurtin' around in gushin' simplicity. But you're wrong, stranger," continued the driver, with a grave look, "quite wrong in callin' me a koonisquat.
Hearing the hum of the old negro's tuneful spirit, she called him and he came to the door. "Kintchin, they have taken Jasper." "Yas'm, an' da've tuck Lije Peters, too." "Why, Jasper said he wasn't goin'." "He ain't he's gone. I was a hidin' in de bushes an' I seed Peters wid his knife, an' I seed er man way up an' den er man way down wid blood spurtin' up.
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