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But we all took a world of comfort; and what was pleasanter work than putting up log heaps and brush heaps in the cool of the night, and seeing them blaze again on our clean sweet fallows?" "A feast on bear's meat and metheglin, at Aunt Polly's," cried Colwell. "Picking bushels of wild strawberries, big as your thumb," added Mrs. Colwell. "And going four miles to raisins," added Thomas Teezle.
"I am not homesick; I was just thinking how she chased me, and how narrowly I escaped." "It was much as ever," said Teezle, "much as ever that the critter didn't mutton you. She skipped like a painter, and whet up her teeth for a whalin' bite. But don't think on it now. Here, who'll tell a good story, and cheer up Fabens a little? Uncle Walt, tell one of your painter stories.
If I could hope to improve him any, I would invite and visit him often. We do mean to visit his family, and ask them to our house." "He's havin' the sulks the natteral way," said Colwell. "He's mad as a March hare, and says, he axes no odds o' Mat Fabens," added Teezle. "Speak low," said Wilson, "I'll warrant, he's near us this very minute; he's olers spookin' about, and eaves-droppin'."
"Gracious alive! what's comin' to pass? Good! good! good! if it's Clintie but, O, I fear now, that Tillson's in fault I fear!" exclaimed Mrs. Troffater, seeming to be shocked with some new suspicion of her husband. "Bring water! bring water! Mrs. Fabens is faint!" cried Mrs. Teezle, and Mrs.
"And five miles to weddins, once in a while," added Mrs. Teezle. "To those very times we are indebted," said Fabens; "to its tugging labors and hard privations, its trials, and griefs, we are indebted for much of the fulness of heart, and breadth of character we now possess, and the comforts we are taking on our handsome farms.
The news flew around as fast as distance would permit; and by nine o'clock the whole neighborhood were together with throbbing hearts and anxious looks. "I fetched my horn and cow-bell," said Mr. Waldron; "I made a noise on the way. Horns will scare off painters, and wolves don't like tootin' or clatter a mite." "And I brought mine," added Uncle Walter. "And I mine," added Teezle.
Then we come to Uncle Walter Mowry's, and hear he is off on a hunt in the woods, while Aunt Huldah excuses the soap and sand on her hands, and welcomes us in with joy. Then we give Teezle a visit; then we see Wilson, and enter the shop on the stream, where he makes chairs, shoes, and carpenter-work on a rainy day; and he reminds us of the bear hunt.
He was cross-examined, with considerable tact and much severity by C. Fox Faddle, Esq.; but he stood the trial with remarkable composure and consistency, making no variation of the facts testified, although he gave them in different connections and words. 'Becca Ann Teezle was next introduced.
Teezle told a story about the Indians and Tories "that cut up such didoes in the revolution down there in the Diliway." Colwell repeated the story of Milo Dale, the money-digger. Then Squire Fabens told a story of a man who was caught in his neighbor's granary borrowing wheat, and who was given a bag full and his supper in the bargain, and sent home, promising he'd never do the like again.
A stranger would have thought her a real firer of a scold; but she was never in a passion; and Uncle Walter used to say, he found her the best, if anything, when seeming to scold the hardest, and she had that way of expressing her interest in him, and making her work go on more briskly. There were Thomas Teezle and his wife, who were valued acquisitions to the settlement.
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