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"Within ten minutes I saw all them cows going lickety-split for the brook on the lower side o' the parster, and some of 'em were in such a hurry that they had their tails right up straight in the air! "Ef you will believe it," Uncle Solon concluded, "not one of them cows teched an oak acorn afterward." Another laugh went round; but an interruption occurred.
"Now, ef you done teched de five-dollar notch an' can't git down, we'll git somebody ter loan'd yer a greenback bill ter fetch up, an' whils' de congergation is meditatin' on dey sins I'll gi'e you back fo' dollars an' ninety-five cents."
Here he lay in a helpless heap until they carted him off to the hospital, where for a day or two he flickered between life and death. "Foh God," said Pennington, "I barely teched him." This same bully threatened that when a certain mountain man came to town he would "finish him." The mountain man came.
We watched him git on he hoss an' ride up de road out o' sight, an' we wuz out in de field a-slidin' an' a-slidin', when up comes ole marster. We started to run; but he hed done see us, an' he called us to come back; an' sich a whoppin' ez he did gi' us! "Fust he took Marse Chan, an' den he teched me up.
Guess day wuz lookin' fer sum slave er sum one fum 'nother plantation widout dere marster's pass." "I se'd a lot ob sta'rs fall one time but dey neber teched de groun'. En I members seein' a comet wid a long bright shinin' tail." "Atter freedom all de slaves lef' de plantation but I stayed dere a long time.
"'Well, then, sez I, 'One was pelted with sticks an' stones all summer, an' even hed some of its branches broken, while t'other was not teched. Why was that? "'Cause it hed plenty of good fruit on it, sez he. "'Jist so, sez I. 'Cause it hed good fruit. An' that's why so often the Lord's good people er pelted with vile words cause they're loaded down with good deeds.
I'll tell ye what ails him though ye mustn't let on ter him he air teched in the head!" He winked at them with a confidential intention as he roared this out, forgetting in his excitement that mental infirmity does not impair the sense of hearing. This folly on his part was a salutary thing for Stephen Ryder. It calmed him instantly. He felt that he had need for caution.
There was a man with her and he let it out. She had knifed two young half-breed widows, as fair and beautiful a two girls as ever I see and she et 'em, yes, ma'am! And nobody teched her; they warn't no police in them days. She lives to the Lake at this day!" "Good Law! Mr. Smiley!" cried Nell with an uneasy glance at the grinning half-breed on the tail-step. "Keep cool, old gal!" growled Nick.
An' mighty fond of each other was all three of 'em." The old man turned pale and his voice trembled so with excitement he could hardly say: "Where is he, Jack? My God Cap'n Tom he's been here all this time too an' me awonderin' " "Right here, Bishop kind an' quiet and teched in his head, where the sword-hilt crushed his skull.
"Nope, I never teched her," replied the squatter; "but I will beat her, if she don't do what I tell her. No matter how she kicks ag'in' my notions, she has to do 'em, Granny!" "Yep, I know that; but I asked ye what she was a blubberin' about." "'Cause I says as how on Saturday she's got to go and be Lem's woman that's what I says." "Lem's woman! Do ye mean that she's got to go away?"
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