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There ain't a mountain man that ain't felt it, some of 'em often, others of 'em once and so scairt that time they won't take the risk again. It comes down suddint, like a darkness then everything round that was so good and fine, the sound of the pines and the bubble of the spring and the wind blowing over the grass, seems like they'd set you crazy.
Thar's been nothin' pertickler ag'in ye so fer, 'cept fer breakin' that confederatin' statute 'bout bandin' fightin' men together; 'n' nobody was very anxious to git hol' o' ye jes fer that, but now" the old man stopped a moment, for Rome's eyes were kindling "they say that ye killed Jas Lew allen, 'n' that ye air a murderer; 'n' hit air powerful strange how all of a suddint folks seem to be gittin' down on a man as kills his fellow-creetur; 'n' now they means to hunt ye til they ketch ye."
But mebbe ye doesn't get the same kind o' newspapers which we poor folks gets reg'ler weekly penny lists o' murders, soocides, railway haccidents, burgul'ries, fires, droppin's down dead suddint, struck by lightnin' and collapsis, with remedies pervided for all in the advertisements invigoratin' to both old and young, bone and sinew, brain and body, whether it be pills, potions, tonics, lotions, ointment or min'ral waters.
An' he tuk off his hat an' say, 'Thank the Lord, this will heal the breach an' make ye frien's! An' I say, 'Edzacly, pa'son, ef it air Abs'lom's deathbed; but them Kittredges air so smilin' an' deceiv-in' I be powerful feared he'll cheat the King o' Terrors himself. I'll forgive 'em ennything over his grave?" "Pa'son war tuk toler'ble suddint in his temper," said the literal Steve.
"Your Pa's gone to Sydney." "Sydney!" "Yes, my dears. A tallygrum came for him something about some valuable cattle to be sold, as he wants." "Oh," said Jim, "those shorthorns he was talking about?" "Very like, Master Jim. Very sorry, your Pa were, he said, to go so suddint, and not to see you again, and the other young gentlemen likewise, seein' you go away on Monday.
You see I's in de back kishen at de time an' hear ebery word. `Well, ses massa, awful slow an' unwillin' like, `I cannot deny that Rosco is in the island, but I do assure you, sir, that he is quite unable to do any furder mischief to any one, for an massa stop all of a suddint. "`Well, ses de cappin, `why you not go on? "`Has you a description of him? he asked.
"'Whisht, whisht, Paddy, says the captain, 'don't be talking bad of any one, says he; 'you don't know how soon you may want a good word put in for yourself, if you should be called to quarthers in th' other world all of a suddint," says he.
"Sho now! that's too bad," said the rag-man, his foot still on the shaft, and his big face wrinkled perplexedly. "Beats all, how suddint they're took. Now you better give 'em a dose o' pep'mint, marm, both on 'em." But Polly shook her head as she ran back up the grassy slope again. So Mr.
"There's a good deal of iniquity that never comes to light. I once know'd a woman that killed her husband with the tongs, and nobody ever surmised it; though everybody thought it strange that he should disappear so suddint. Well, this woman on her death-bed owned up to the tongs in a crazy fit that she had.
Then all of a suddint we saw somefin' come a-wamblin' outer the shadder o' the wood, and run along by th' edge of ut. We couldn't make out a' furst what it moight be, thow for sure we got a rare fright. For my part, I thowt it might a' been ole Black Shuck, thow th' night didn't seem windy enough for un." "Stop a bit," said Colwyn. "What do you mean by Black Shuck? Oh, I remember.
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