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'I know how far away yez are from the loikes of me and will forgit me to-morry, but I'm glad yez come, for it gave me a breath of the joy of the great world outside. Here hearts be breaking continually, for our lives are narrowed down to a mere fight for food. It's jist slavery from the cradle ter ther grave, and slavery over which there shines no star of hope.
Suddenly a voice came from within. "What in the devil's name do ye want here, at this time of the darkness?" "It air Tess, Ma Moll. I wants yer fortune pot." "Go home and come agin to-morry." "Won't," Tess sent back defiantly, "air goin' to see ye to-night. I air goin' to give ye somethin' for yer luck pot." A scramble, a hurrying sound from within, and the door was dragged open.
"'The Doc don't allow he'll come trailin' in ag'in, says Dan Boggs, 'ontil day after to-morry. Which this female dooel will be plumb over by then, an' most likely the camp a wrack. "While we-all stands thar gazin' on each other, enable to su'gest anything to meet the emergency, Texas Thompson's pony is brought up from the corral, saddled an' bridled, an' ready for the trail.
Then, looking up with a smile after a moment's thought, he finished: "No, I believe with you, that it is impossible for him to harm one of us if we have faith in God." "So, I can help ye to-morry if ye ain't in Daddy's fix?" Then Frederick understood that she would have saved him, even if he had been in danger of his life.
Thar's a half-formed thought in the public bosom that if anybody sees your trail to-morry, all hands'll turn in an' arrange you for the grave. "'Never mind about arrangin' nothin', says Shotgun; 'I quits you after the next drink; which libation I takes alone. An' Shotgun rides away. "What is the matter with Shotgun?
"If ye don't shut up, I takes the brat to Ma Moll.... Now, then, drink this tea, and eat this bread. To-morry ye has to go home, ye know." "But my baby, Tess! What shall I do about my baby?" The nervous whining in Teola's voice brought Tess over to her. The squatter forced the soiled blanket over the young shoulders.
You tell Dan Jordan, then, to-morrow what you have told me. You see the banquet takes place to-morrow night." "Yep, I tells him, so I will. I goes to town early to-morry and up to your house.... Come and eat now!" The next morning at eight o'clock Tessibel walked eastward up the long hill toward the college. The "Cranium" fellows were yet asleep.
"Let's put out to-morry morning early. Let's go in the skiff; we can row and cordelle it up the river again, though it is a job." Bright and early, the boys started down the river, rowing easily with the strong, steady current of the Ohio, holding their way to Judge Kane's, whose house was over against Port William. This Judge Kane was an intelligent and wealthy farmer, liked by everybody.
At last he says to Black Cloud: "'To show how my medicine is stronger than yours, to-morry I'll make your red-eyed big medicine bronco go lame in his off hind laig. "Black Cloud grins scornful at this; he allows that no sport can make his white pony go lame.
I might crib some more if I could. Every time I steals up to yer house, I thinks yer woman'll see me; and yer Pappy and Mammy comes home to-morry." Teola nodded. "If yer Pappy catched me swipin' milk, he'd knock the head offen me. I steals it just the same.... I air afraid of yer Pappy, though." "No wonder," replied Teola, and she lapsed into silence.
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