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Updated: May 31, 2025
At last the voice was very near. Presently a figure appeared ahead, staggering towards her. "Qui va la? Who is it?" she asked. "Ba'tiste Caron," was the reply in English, in a faint voice. She was beside him in an instant. "What has happened? Why are you off the trail?" she said, and supported him. "My Injun stoled my dogs and run off," he replied. "I run after.
At last the voice was very near. Presently a figure appeared ahead, staggering towards her. "Qui va la? Who is it?" she asked. "Ba'tiste Caron," was the reply in English, in a faint voice. She was beside him in an instant. "What has happened? Why are you off the trail?" she said, and supported him. "My Injun stoled my dogs and run off," he replied. "I run after.
At length he made shift to reach out his hand to the bridle, though deeply blushing, and said, "Dear me now! well la! what will mammy think, and the children, when they come to see me, riding up here on this famous horse, and all these fine things! I know well enough how mammy will have a hearty cry, that's what she will; for she will think I STOLED him.
The negro withdrew, but a minute later a board was dropped on the opening of the cracker-box, and the den with its tenants, dead and alive, was lifted into the bird-cellar. "Say, boss, look a-hyar hyar's where de little Rabbit got to wot we lost. Yo' sho t'ought Ah stoled him for de 'tater-bake."
But then children are also imitative, and fearful of the older intellect. It struck Johnny that his mother might be right, and that to her it really meant the same thing. So, after a moment's silence he replied more confidently, "I suppose I stoled it." But he was utterly unprepared for the darkening change in his mother's face, and her furious accents. "You stole it? you STOLE it, you limb!
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