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Updated: June 21, 2025
Catching sight of her grief-stricken face in the cracked looking glass that hung at the head of the bed, she started up suddenly. "What am I bleatin' for?" she said to herself, wiping her eyes on her little patched apron. "Ye'd think to look at me that I'd been caught stealin' the cat's milk" she laughed through her tears "I haven't stolen anything and what for need I cry?
Now if it was me that was stealin' these hawses say, s'posin' I was aimin' to sell 'em over across the line I'd aim to take the best I could git holt of, because I'd be wanting 'em for good, all-round, tough saddle hawses. Them greasers, the way they're hellin' around over the country shootin' and fightin', they got to have good hawses under 'em. Er they want good hawses, if they can git 'em.
"There was a lad o' that name was hanged at Inveraray i' '68 for stealin' twae hens and a wether." "The man I mean is long and lean, and his head is as red as fire. He gave me your name, so you must know him." His eyes showed no recognition. He repeated the name to himself, mumbling it toothlessly. "It sticks i' my memory," he said, "but when and where I canna tell.
Why, it wasn't more'n a week ago that we run Skoonly out of town for stealin'! So, I reckon, 'tain't more'n good hoss-sense for you tew be some cautious now that you are gittin' a fortune in gold. Not that thar's any harm in a-tellin' old friends like us, 'cause we knows enough tew keep mum 'bout it," and Ham glanced warningly around the circle of interested faces.
And I sez, "I wouldn't harrer up the minds of the rich men on board with thoughts of taxes," sez I, "when lots of 'em are goin' away to get rid on 'em." "Well," sez he, "I could tell the hull of Robert Kidd." And I sez, "Well, I wouldn't harrer up their feelin's talkin' about hullsale stealin'; they have enough of that to hum in the big cities." So gradual I got him off from the idee.
'Caught a man stealin' carbines, sir, said the corporal. 'Leastways 'e was crawlin' towards the barricks, sir, past the main road sentries, an' the sentry 'e sez, sir The limp heap of rags upheld by the three men groaned. Never was seen so destitute and demoralised an Afghan. He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
We'uns air Babtists ourselves, but, thank the Lord, not o' your kind. Babtists air honest people. Babtists don't go about the country robbin' and murderin' and stealin' folks' corn. Don't tell me you air a Babtist, for I know you air a-lyin', and that's the next thing to killin' and stealin'."
But, dere is too much stealin' going on here, and you and I, Missus, must be more ticklar. You is too dulgent altogether. "'I didn't mean that, Sorrow, she said, 'I don't mean stealin'. "'Well, Missus, I's glad to hear dat, if you will let me ab permission den, I will drink you good helf. "'Why didn't you do it half an hour ago? she said.
"What gien I dinna tell ye, Grizzie?" he returned, willing to rouse her with a little teazing. "That's as ye see proper, sir," she answered. "Naebody has a richt to say til anither 'Whaur got ye that? 'cep' they doobt ye hae been stealin'." It was a somewhat strange answer, but there was no end to the strange things Grizzie would say: it was one of her charms!
That d d Blake that d d Gully! Stealin' my hawss away'f me an' gittin' me fined! I'll git back at somebody fur this! Pleece! yes! yeh kin holler 'Pleece! Let me get th' drop on th' red-coated, yelluh-laigged sons of ! Ah-hh!" His eyes glittered with his insane passion, "Here they come! Now! watch th' s try an' arrest me!"
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