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He sat down, took up a lap-board, and upon it began to cut a piece of leather; but leaving off the work, gave himself up to deep thought. "Shot fo' and stobbed three," he said, his mind on the story paper. "Ah, it may not be true, but it sounds mighty natchul. I wonder how it all is goin' to end. Don't want to think about it; wush I could think of somethin' else. Margaret's got her heart set.
Here was a theme for a sermon from the patriarch, who now leaned upon his hoe and shook his head with a slow ruminative motion, as if he hoped by this action to disengage from it some profound moral reflections, and then began to enumerate how many of these good people he had helped to bury; but before he had well begun this discourse we had turned away and were about leaving the place, when he recalled us by saying, "I have got one tombstone yet to show you, as soon as I can clear it off with the hoe: it belongs to old Master Rousby, who was stobbed aboard ship, and is, besides that, the grandest tombstone here."
And while the people rocked back and forth with laughter, an usher led the excited German out, declaring all the way that "A blay vas a blay, but somedings might be dangerous even in a blay! unt dat ting vat he saw should be stobbed alreaty!" Meantime I had quite a little rest on my bed before quiet could be restored and the play proceed.
'cause Aunty told me so. When I was thist a baby onc't I falled out of the bed An' got 'The Curv'ture of the Spine' 'at's what the Doctor said. I never had no Mother nen fer my Pa runned away An' dassn't come back here no more 'cause he was drunk one day An' stobbed a man in thish-ere town, an' couldn't pay his fine! An' nen my Ma she died an' I got 'Curv'ture of the Spine'!"
I'm goin' down the road a piece an' will drap in on my way back," and as he passed out he looked back and added: "Thinkin' ought to make a man wise." The old man stood looking through the window, at Peters as he ambled along the road, and turning away he muttered, "Shot fo' an' stobbed three," his mind flying back to the story paper. Mrs.
Sometimes the old man's face would light up and then it would darken. "Shot fo' an' stobbed three," he read. "Hold on, he's about to git another one. Got him! Oh, you bet he's got him foul. Wait a minit."
Them Sarver boys ez triflin' a lot ez ever lived had him down when I rid up on a hoss. An' the fust thing they know'd I stobbed one of 'em between the shoulder blades an' they thought he never would git well." "An' they killed Spencer right there," said Margaret. "That's true enough, but they'd a killed him quicker if I hadn't got there. Ah, laws a massy, the meanness of this world.
"Wall, how did it happen, any way?" Starbuck inquired, biting an apple. "Wall, Bill he war settin' thar on a log, lookin' out over the new ground, not a thinkin' about bein' stobbed nur nuthin', an' this feller jest slipped up an' stobbed him." There came a hoarse cry from without. "Somebody's a hollerin' helloa," said Margaret, grinding her coffee by the fire-place. Jasper went to the door.
You told me not to darken yo' door ag'in, and I hain't. Don't overlook that fact. And I wouldn't be here, but my app'intment has come." "Wall." "An' I go on duty day atter to-morrer. Do you know what that means?" "I told you not long ago what it mout mean." "But it mout not turn out that way." "Shot fo' an' stobbed three," muttered the old man, his mind reverting to the story paper.
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