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Abel is like Sarah, only his generation is different." "Do you really think he's like his mother?" asked Molly a little wistfully. "As haw is like haw. They're both bent on doin' the Lord's job over again an' doin' it better, an' thar manner of goin' to work would be to melt up human natur an' pour it all into the same pattern.
He did not recognize the men, but his own face, name, and business were familiar to everybody for fifty miles along the stage-road. "Well, you can settle a bet for us, I reckon. Bill Dacre thar bet me five dollars and the drinks that a young gal we met at the edge of the Carquinez Woods, dressed in a long brown duster and half muffled up in a hood, was the daughter of Father Wynn of Excelsior.
All right now; I 've got a-hold of 'em. That you, Arthur; how de do?" "How do you do, Mr. Barlow?" responded Arthur. "Hitch yer hosses ter that tree thar. I 'll send Joe out ter tend to 'em. Ye 'll find the girls round the side in a hammock. Here 's Pert a-comin' now."
I've had a month of it. I'm goin' back up th' gulch." "No!" cried Kate, instinctively reaching out her hands toward him. "Why not? I guess you don't know me. I knew that somewhere I'd find a friend. I found that friend; an' now I'm alone again. It's pretty quiet up thar in the gulch; but I'll try it." "No, no. Go to Europe; go to see your mother." "I thought about that a good deal, a while ago.
He had a rich uncle thar', that took a shine to him, and kind o' 'dopted him and eddicated him, but Godfrey, he took a shine to a poor girl thar', dreadfully handsome, she was, but yet they was both of 'em young, and it didn't suit the old uncle, so he left him to shift for himself.
"Mill'cent," said the old woman in the shed-room, as they washed and wiped the dishes after the cozy breakfast of venison and corn-dodgers and honey and milk, "that thar man hev run agin the law, sure's ye air born."
He stared at it scarce believing, imagining a delusion, and then sent his cracked voice back in a shout on the wind. "We 're thar, 'Brick'! My God, lad, here 's the Cimarron!" He wheeled about, shading his mouth, so as to make the words carry through the storm. "Do you hear? We're within a half mile o' the river. Stir Carroll up! Beat the life inter him! There 's shelter and fire comin'!"
"It looks very much like it," and Reynolds laughed. "Wall, that's jist the way with many other things. It's allus the unexpected that happens, an' thar are surprises on every trail, as ye'll larn if ye haven't done so already. Meetin' me here is one of 'em, an' my movements are jist as unsartin an' mysterious as were them of that bird which is now sizzlin' over this fire."
Thar wuz better times in this 'ere province o' Massachusetts Bay, under the pine tree flag, than this dum Continental striped rag hez ever fetched, or ever will, I reckon." The dismay which the news of the extent and apparent irresistibleness of the rebellion produced among those attached to the court party in Stockbridge, corresponded to the exultation to which the people gave themselves up.
Sech a play would be onelegant an' no delicacy to it; an' I now returns to gyard ag'in it. "As soon as Peets is started for the Red Light, Tutt ag'in turns to the Signal party, who's settin' thar lookin' he'pless an' worried, like he's a prairie dog who's come back from visitin' some other dog, an' finds a rattlesnake's done pitched camp in the mouth of his hole.
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