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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Seen! stranger, we've seed nothin', but we've hear'd a sight, we have, I calc'late. We hear'd the imps o' darkness talkin' as plain as I hear you. At first I thought it was somebody at the foot o' the hill, but all of a suddent the imps took to larfin' as if they'd split, jist under my feet, so I yelled out to my mate here to come an' yoke the beasts and git away as slick as we could.
"Purty soon Nellie got fussin' roun' the room, over nigh to where the yaller chap was a-settin', an' he spoke to her, saft-like, so ez we couldn't hear what he was a-gittin' at. Nellie she jest sniffed kinder scornful; an' then, what would yez suppose that chap done? He reached out suddent, grabbed her leetle wrist so hard 'at she cried out, an' slapped her yes, slapped her right across the mouth.
One day him an' his two sons was a workin' in the field an' all of a suddent they heard a drum and fife over in the road.
Then all of a suddent somepin' popped up on the graveyard wall about a hundred yards away somepin' all blue-gray against the hook o' the moon an' began walkin' up an' down an' hollerin'. I knew it was sayin' words, but I was so far to the bad I didn't know nothin' an' couldn't make it out.
She possessed a thin and aquiline nose, however, the nostrils fairly quivering with eagerness and curiosity. "Land sakes!" she was saying. "I know Cap'n Abe's been talkin' of goin' away the longest spell! But so suddent 'twixt night and mornin' as ye might say " "Exactly," said Cap'n Amazon dryly, and went on counting the pins from the box into a paper sack. "What 'bout the girl that's come here?
"That's a point o' voo," he admitted, and added guardedly, "I don't say as I agree: but I'd like to know how, comin' upon all of us so suddent, it strikes a man like you, dwellin' in these out-o'-the-way parts. My wife declares she've seen matters workin' up to it for years." "I never thought about it, one way or t'other, an' I don't want to think about it now. Who in the world wants war?
And one day he'd jest come to live in them parts he looked out of his winder, and he see, standin' out plain ag'in the sky, he see that Stony Head. It looked real ha'sh and hard and stony and dark, and all of a suddent the man thought it was God. "Yes," he says to hisself, "that's jest the way I 'most knowed he looked, ha'sh and hard and stony and dark, and that's him."
"This came somewhat suddent on owld Tom, but he wor noways put out. "`Well, you do see, Cap'n Rowe, says he, `I do it apurpose, for I do look at the thing in two lights." "`How so? asked the captain. "`Why, the people of St. Just only think of the berryin', but I do think of the resurrection; the consekince is that they do dig too deep, an' afore the St.
And the pore half-sharp thing took to me, an' I took to she, an' I thinks to myself, "She's a purty gal, if she's ever so stupid, an' she'll get 'er livin' a-sellin' flowers o' fine days, an' a-doin' the rainy-night dodge with baskets when it's wet "; an' so I took 'er in, an' in the street she'd all of a suddent bust out a-singin' songs about Snowdon an' sich like, just as if she was a-singin' in a dream, and folk used to like to 'ear 'er an' gev 'er money; an' I was a good mother to 'er, I was, an' them as sez I worn't is cussed liars.
All iv a suddent he give a cry iv rage, an' jumped feet foremost into th' pile. 'Down! says th' impire. 'Faith, they are all iv that, says I, 'Will iver they get up? 'They will, says ol' man Dorgan. 'Ye can't stop thim, says he. "It took some time f'r to pry thim off. Near ivry man iv th' Saint Aloysiuses was tied in a knot around wan iv th' Christyan Brothers.
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