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Updated: May 14, 2025
'Look here, folks! said Uncle Eb, after awhile, as he got his flute, 'my feelin's hev been teched hard. If I don't hev some jollification I'll bust. Bill Brower, limber up yer leather a leetle bit. Nehemiah, whom I had known as John Trumbull, sat a long time between his father and mother, holding a hand of each, and talking in a low tone, while Hope and I were in the kitchen with Uncle Eb.
"So we scrimmaged round here and there till there was only one closet in the cabin left. "'I saved it till the last it's the most likely, says William. 'Shine a light on our departing hopes, Ezekiel. "He put his hand very careful toward the back. 'E. G. W., says he, 'my fingers have teched something cold and smooth, just like a bottle pull hard, Ezekiel. "I took a long breath and pulled hard.
What people want is fur to have their hearts teched deep, and I don't know how fur tu du it. I could tell stories about what liquor has done, that orter set every one of ye a snivellin powerful, but I reckon you'd ruther hear something funny.
The shop is now the one architectural blemish in a long row of handsome stores. Miles of streets have been built up around it. The old soldier used to sit in an antique armchair in the rear of his shop, smoking, from meal to meal. "I l'arnt the habit in the army," he would say. "I never teched tobacker till I went to the war." People would look inquiringly at his empty sleeve.
Says I, 'Neighbor G., I wouldn't hev thought you would ever hev teched another mite of liquor after what we see last night. Says he, 'Mr. Roarer, I ken control my appetite. I know jest when fur tu stop. I shall go hum and kiss my wife and children and not drive 'em out of doors as Scotch Billy did.
"I 'clare to goodness, Miss Sally, I never teched it!" Miss Sally directed a critical glance at her handmaiden's red-coifed head. "No," she said to herself softly, "it felt nicer than wool, anyway!" In spite of the awkward termination of his visit, or perhaps BECAUSE of it, Courtland called again at the plantation within the week.
Sin ner shame hain't nuver teched hit yit. They hain't nuver ergoin' ter. Ther bright sun an' ther clean wind air goin' ter come ter hit an' find hit like hit's always been. God's breath is goin' ter stir in hit ther same es hit's always done."
"Poor old Miriam, she's teched up here," one of the girls explained, tapping her forehead. "They say it was the old sweat-shops put her out of her mind, and I guess it's so, all right. My mother knows two ladies that was made crazy sewing pants up to Sternberg's. But that was long ago, when they used to treat the girls so bad.
Rufe was roused to defend himself. "Hain't teched 'em, now!" he cried, acrimoniously. "Waal, sometimes ye air sorter loose-jointed in yer jaw, an' ain't partic'lar what ye say," rejoined his mother, politely. "I'll waste a leetle yerb-tea on ye, ennyhow." She started back into the room, and Rufe rose at once. This cruelty should not be practiced upon him, whatever might betide him at the tanyard.
"I ain't begun to do it jestice yet," he apologized. "I ain't more'n jest teched on a good many things that needs to be gone into a trifle. Jest a trifle! It'll take weeks and weeks to do that. But as I was a-sayin' I got there! I got there just when I was needed almighty bad.
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