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I should think Bill or Jack Kelso could look after the store for a few days," said the Doctor. "I promised to take Mr. Traylor over to Jack Kelso's to-night. Couldn't you come along?" "Good! We'll have a story-tellin' and get Jack to unlimber his guns," said Abe. It was a cool evening with a promise of frost in the air.
"But I was tellin' ye about th' reunion. They was lashins iv dhrink an' story-tellin', an' Felix's boy Aloysius histed a banner he had made with 'Dooley aboo' painted on it. But, afther th' night got along, some iv us begun to raymimber that most iv us hadn't been frinds f'r long. Mrs.
I told 'em you started for Olathe there's where they've gone with the two tramps. "My, but I did have a time of it! I ain't much good at story-tellin' but I reckon I told more stories this arternoon than I ever tole before in all my life. I told 'em that they was two of you, an' that the biggest one hed red hair, an' the little one was all pock-marked.
I'm an old chromo, be I? Yes! that's nice talk, ain't it, to a woman old enough to be that is er er 'most as old as you be! You sneakin', story-tellin', little, fat THING, you! You oh, I can't lay my tongue to words to tell you WHAT you are." "You're doin' pretty well, seems to me," observed Captain Cy dryly. "I wouldn't be discouraged if I was you."
At last the thing which had long been a subject of talk and argument in the stores and houses of New Salem was about to come to pass a trial of strength and agility between the two great lions of Sangamon County. Either of them would have given a month's work to avoid it. "I reckon we better begin our story-tellin'," said Abe. "I think so too," Samson declared. "It's purty dusk now."
"Them's the stories for me," Daniel McCoy was wont to say, when commenting on this subject. "Truth is all very well in its way, you know, but it's a great bother when you've got to stick to it; of course I mean when story-tellin'."
When I see that, I clear forgot the church wasn't dedicated, an' I thanked God they was there, safe an' by a good fire, with somebody 'tendin' to 'em. "The bed-makin' an' the story-tellin' an' the palace-buildin' went on, an' I kep' gettin' exciteder every minute. When the door opened, I couldn't tell which was in my mouth, my heart or my tongue.
We'll just tell 'em it's a he party come over for a story-tellin' an' a rassle. I reckon we'll have some fun. Ride on over and take supper with 'em. They're worth knowing." In a few minutes the minister mounted his horse and rode away followed by his big dog. "If I was you I wouldn't go," said Berry. "Why not?" "It'll hurt trade. Let the rest of Traylor's friends go over. There's enough of 'em."
"I don't mind what Indians, grislies, buffaloes, trappers it's all one to me; only begin quick and go ahead strong." "Well, I ain't great at story-tellin'! P'r'aps it would be more to the p'int if I was to tell ye about what I heer'd tell of on my last trip to the Mountains. Did I ever tell ye about the feller as the trappers that goes to the far North calls the `Wild Man o' the West'?"
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