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"We mus' turn sharp to the left here, or we'll no' get back. It's a tarrible windin' headin'." But Conway had discovered tracks, faintly discernible, leading across into a passage used by men and mules to shorten the distance to the inner workings. "He's a-goin' stret back," said Billy, sorrowfully, as they slowly followed these traces, "he's a-goin' stret back to whaur he cam' through."
I've no fears about a income I'm well aware Mr. Jerome 'ud niver leave me stret for that; but I should like to hev a thousand or two at my own disposial; it makes a widow a deal more looked on.
"Quit, Forester quit, I say quit, now consarn the hide on you" shouted the fat man, now in great tribulation, and apprehending a second edition of the tumble "quit foolin', or by h l I'll put a grist of shot, or one of they green cartridges into you stret away I will, by the Etarnal!" and as he spoke he dropped the muzzle of his gun, and put his thumb upon the cock.
You may fish, though, if you will, Forester," he added, turning to me, "and I do reckon the big yellow pearch will bite the darndest, this cold morning, arter the sun gits fairly up but soon as ever you hear the hounds holler, or one of them chaps shoot, then look you out right stret away for business!
You, Garry, keep stret down the old road with ten dogs and all the plunder we'll meet at night, I reckon. "No sooner said than done! the parties were sent off with the relays. This was on Monday morning Tom and I, and some thirteen others, with eight couple of the best dogs, stuck to his slot on foot.
"Twenty acres, I guess not over twenty-five, no how." "And the house?" "Well, that wants fixin' some; and the bridge over the crick's putty bad, too, it will want putty nigh a new one. Why, the house is a story and a half like; and it's jist an entry stret through the middle, and a parlor on one side on't, and a kitchen on the t'other; and a chamber behind both on 'em."
Well, boys, I upped gun and tuck sight stret away, but just as I was drawin', I kind o' thought I'd got two little charges of number eight, and that to shoot at ducks at fifteen rod wasn't nauthen.
"Come here, darn you," were the first words I heard, from the mouth of what speaker it need not be said "come here, you lazy, snortin, snoozin Decker lend a hand here right stret away, will you? We've got more perch than all of us can carry and Archer's got six wood-duck."
"Hurt him some skeart him considerable, though. I guess he's quit shootin' pretty much. But come here we be, boys. I'll keep along the outside, where the walkin's good. You git next me, and Archer next with the dogs, and A inside of all. Keep right close to the cedars, A ; all the birds 'at you flushes will come stret out this aways. They never flies into the cedar swamp.
An' then it helves my thoughts as slick, ez stret grained hickory does a hetchet." On one occasion I heard Lowell tell a story in which he surrendered himself fully to the rustic heredity that was in him, flinging aside the accretions of culture. "It is strange," he said, "how even the moral sense of men may become warped.
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