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Mebbe you think, sittin' up thar on the box seat, you are. Mebbe you think you kin see round corners with that thar eye, and kin pull up for teams round corners, on down grades, a mile ahead?" But here Thatcher, who, with something of Lancelot's concern for Modred, had a noble pity for all infirmities, interfered so sternly that Yuba Bill stopped.
"At the lower fort of Kentucky, and from the man himself," said Nathan. "He had warned the settlers at Lexington " "That's piper's news," interrupted one of the young men. "Captain Ralph told us all about that; but he said thar war nobody at Lexington believed the story." "Then," said Nathan, meekly, "it may be that the man was mistaken.
"Shore enuff," was Jordan's answer. "I war once down at the bottom of ther Colorado Cañon. It war terrible. I never seen a place so desolate and wild; but, Jim, I looked up along the walls hundreds of feet overhead, and thar in ther daylight, away off in ther infinite sky, some stars war shinin'."
I do." "I kin lay awake nights," said Samson, "an' see them hills and mists an' colors the same es ef they was thar in front of my eyes an' I kin seem ter hear 'em as well as see 'em." The painter nodded, and his voice fell into low quotation: "'The scarlet of the maple can shake me like the cry "Of bugles going by." The boy's eyes deepened.
They stopped once in an oak opening, and Shif'less Sol shivered slightly. "Henry," he said, "I feel all through me that somethin' terrible is comin'. That woman back thar has clean give me the shivers. I'm more afraid of her than I am of Timmendiquas or Thayendanegea. Do you think she is a witch?" "There are no such things as witches, but she was uncanny.
Thar used to be jest sech a mendacious party who camps 'round Wolfville for a while if I don't misrecollect, he gets plugged standin' up a through stage, final who is wont to lie that a-way; we calls him 'Lyin' Amos. But they're only meant to entertain you; them stories be. Amos is never really out to put you on a wrong trail to your ondoin'.
Hit's mighty good to feel that ye believe me, 'n' I want ye to know that I been stayin' over thar fer nothin' on earth but jes to see you ag'in; 'n' I want ye to know that I was a-sorrowin' fer ye when y'u was sick, 'n' a-pinin' to see ye, 'n' a-hopin' some day y'u mought kinder git over yer hate fer me."
"Lord, I hope when my time comes I kin slip into heaven on Marse Robert's coat-tails." "If you don't, you won't never git thar!" jeered the second. Then they settled themselves again, and listened with sombre faces and twitching lips. It was during this winter that Dan learned how one man's influence may fuse individual and opposing wills into a single supreme endeavour.
"Well," said Jimmy, "if this ain't Pangymonum, I reckon I'll find it at Johnson's Cross-roads! Git up thar, gal, an' let me see what ails you." The woman rose mechanically, still singing in the shrill, cracked, weary drone, and, as she rose, the baby awoke and began to cry, and she stooped and took it up, and, patting it with her hands, sang on, as if she would fall asleep singing, but could not.
Again, she nodded in silent assent, and the boy began speaking in a slow, careful voice, which gradually mounted into tense emotion. "Sally, thet thar gun was my pap's. When he lay a-dyin', he gave hit ter me, an' he gave me a job ter do with hit. When I was a little feller, I used ter set up 'most all day, polishin' thet gun an' gittin' hit ready.
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