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'May o' got faint er sumthin'. Ol' hoss brought 'im right here been here s' often with 'in'. He took the lantern and went out a moment. The door creaked upon its frosty hinges when he opened it. 'Thirty below zero, he whispered as he came in. 'Win's gone down a leetle bit, mebbe. Uncanny noises broke in upon the stillness of the old house.
"We di'n't ought to have set off before dinner," said the squire with after-the-event wisdom. "We ought to have waited till after dinner." "You ought to have brought sumthin'," said William severely. "You're the squire. You're not much of a squire not to have brought sumthin' for me to eat." "An' me," put in Ginger. "If I'd brought any I'd have brought it for me more'n for you."
'Taint 'cos Grump wanted to do him a good turn, fur 'tain't his style. Cons'kently, thar's sumthin' wrong. Tom, I reckon I take you along." And Tom and the colonel departed.
"I ain't seen 'im for over a week, so I s'pose 'e's gone on the drink, like the rest of 'em, but I've put sumthin' in the paper as 'ill pull him up pretty sharp, and let 'im know I ain't a carpet to be trod on, an' if you're a friend of 'im, you can tell 'im from me 'e's a brute, an' it's no more but what I expected of 'im, 'e bein' a male."
The hunt was to be on foot, and Johnny insisted that Dick carry the rifle, while he made up a light pack for himself of axe, frying-pan, forks and a little bacon, corn meal, bait and matches. When Dick saw Johnny's pack, he said to him: "Won't we get back to-night?" "Mebbe so, but you can't allers tell. We might get to follerin' sumthin and be gone two or three days.
'Shucks! said Uncle Eb, 'he ain' no fool if he is a good speller not by a dum sight! 'Tip, said David, 'you'll find a box in the sleigh 'at come by express. I wish ye'd go'n git it. We all stood looking while Tip brought it in and pried off the top boards with a hatchet. 'Careful, now! Uncle Eb cautioned him. 'Might spile sumthin'. The top off, Uncle Eb removed a layer of pasteboard.
When I got home one night the fire was out, and she was just laying acrost the hearth; the room was awful cold, and there warn't no food neither I 'spect that helped it. I'd bin away three or four days, and the food give out quicker than I thought, and the firin'. I arst a doctor here wot it was, and he said it was sincough or sumthin'." "Syncope?" suggested Katrine.
He looked longingly at the water a moment 'If I don't go hum, said he, 'an' keep my mouth shet I'll say sumthin' I'll be sorry fer. He was never quite the same after that. He told often of his struggle with this unseen, mysterious fish and I imagined he was a bit more given to reflection. He had had hold of the 'ol' settler of Deep Hole' a fish of great influence and renown there in Faraway.
"Playing tournament, Riley," came back the voice from under the bed. "It's a splendid game. Do you want to learn it some time?" "'Tis mesel' has sumthin' to learn ye," he retorted. "Come out o' there, I say." "I couldn't think of it. I'm tired." "Well, ye oughter be smashin' up th' furnichure, an' makin' a noise like a wake. Wait 'til I gits hold iv ye."
Where are the men?" "Forrard, sir, a hangin' over the starboard rail. Thar's somethin' cursedly strange a happenin' in that damn fog. Harwood was the first ter hear the clatter ov en oar slippin' in a rowlock. I thought the feller wus crazy, till I heerd sumthin' also, an' then, sir, while we wus still a listenin' we both caught sound ov a Spanish oath, spoke as plain as if the buck was aboard."
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