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After a time the reconnoitring party came back. "Nothin' stirrin'," said the leader tersely. "I misdoubts," muttered another, casting a look of deep suspicion on Rick. "Thar air men out thar, I'm a-thinkin', hid somewhar." "They air furder 'n a mile off, ennyhow," returned the first speaker. "We never lef' so much ez a bush 'thout sarchin' of it."
Yis, my good woman, I'm John Norton, and this is Wild Bill, and we've come over the mountain to wish ye a merry Christmas, ye and yer leetle uns, and help ye keep the day; and, ye see, we've been stirrin' a leetle in yer absence, and breakfast be waitin'. Wild Bill and me will jest go out and cut a leetle more wood, while ye warm and wash yerself; and when ye be ready to eat, ye may call us, and we'll see which can git into the house fust."
There was no one stirring except a woman, the landlord's wife, who was lighting the fire in order to prepare breakfast. She regarded the two with surprise, and perhaps a little distrust. "You're stirrin' early, strangers," she said. "Yes," answered Melville, courteously, "we are going to take a little walk before breakfast; it may sharpen our appetites." "Humph!" said the woman; "that's curious.
"Now the question is, what's to be done?" "Yes," she admitted, and the tremor of the lips told him that she depended upon him to work out the problem. His heart swelled with glad pride at the thought. "That man who jus' passed is my friend," he told her. "He's trailin' that duck Shorty. Like as not we'll find out what's stirrin'."
As we comes up, I observes the old Magdalena projectin' about the main door of the casa, stirrin' up some lazy peonies to their daily toil which, to use the word "toil," however, in connection with a Greaser, is plumb sarcastic. The padre leads us into the cases, an' the bitter-lookin' Magdalena hustles us some grub; after which we-all smokes a bit. Then the padre gets up an' leads the way.
"Come, Lucy Ann, the boy ought to be stirrin'!" exclaimed the old sailor, without the least show of sympathy. "He's got to be ready when John Sykes comes, an' he ain't so quick as some lads." The mother rose with a sigh, and went into the house.
Steve Hawn met him at the station with a rattle-trap buggy and, stared at him long and hard. "I'd hardly knowed ye you've growed like a weed." "How's the folks?" asked Jason. "Stirrin'." Silently they rattled down the street, each side of which was lined with big wagons loaded with tobacco and covered with cotton cloth there seemed to be hundreds of them.
I guess I kind of mixed you up, didn't I? You see, what I meant was, could I make Stefana's birthday cake over here to your house where she can't hear me stirrin'?" "Oh, Stefana's birthday! That is why she was 'born to-morrow." "Yes'm, in a thunder storm. I've heard Mother tellin'. It will have to be a graham cake." "A what kind of cake, Evangeline?
He went drivin' cattle for Vale the butcher, and he had to have the boots for the poison ivy is that bad, and because the sugar o' lead is all done and anyway ma don't like to keep it in the house, for wee Danny might eat it he's that stirrin' and me not there to watch him now." "Lord! what a tongue you have! Put down your things and go out and pick up chips to light the fire with in the morning."
I was goin' away, but I gave it up when they told me that things were beginnin' to look black against Ol Ostrander; that a woman had come into town who was a- stirrin' up things generally about that old murder for which a feller had already been 'lectrocuted, and knowin' somethin' myself about that murder and Ol Ostrander, I well, I stayed."
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