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Why, you dashed off like a girl in a red sweater with a bull on her heels." "I tole you ther ponies ran away," said Summers, shifting his little eyes. Somehow he couldn't look Bellew in the face. "Yes, and I guess what made 'em run was suthin' like this " A quizzical look stole over Bellew's lean, handsome features.
Not until Tole had covered everything else did he say casually: "Colina Gaviller rides all around on her yellow horse. She is proud now. Never speaks to the people." That was all. Ambrose's heart stirred with compassion for the one, who by her loyalty was forced to embrace the wrong cause. Another time Tole remarked: "Gordon Strange run the store all summer." "So!" said Ambrose.
The old woman broke in and said: "Missus, I thort dat de gemman who axed me what I was doin' wid de baby in my lap, was a doctor, an' some kin to de man what made de Godfrey's cordial, but he tole me dat he was not. He like de way dat I doctered de chile, an' sed dat he would rite about it. He sed dat he had tried sum of de juice hisself an' dat it was good for babies.
She said folks of'n 'dopted children to be their very own, and that mebbe some time somebody'd 'dopt me; and I tole her then I didn' want anybody to 'dopt me, but I'd like you to 'dopt me, Jane. Couldn't you?" with great earnestness. "Of course not, Polly. Folks who adopt children are older 'n I am, and have money to take care of 'em.
'Ere am I; I seen 'is picture, 'eard 'is name since I was a kid in frocks. Prince Karl Albert! And if any one 'ad tole me I was going to blow 'im to smithereens there! I shouldn't 'ave believed it, Kitty. "That chap at Margit ought to 'ave tole me about it. All 'e tole me was that I got a weak chess. "That other chap, 'e ain't going to do much. Wonder what I ought to do about 'im?"
I watched you, and you came along like an ice wagon after a day's work on the Fourth of July. You were going fast, but moving slow." "I 'spects we was, Massa Tom," was the colored man's answer. "But Boomerang done better dan I 'spected he would. I done tole him yo'd be in a hurry t' git yo' telephone, an' he sho' did trot along." "My telephone?" repeated Tom, wonderingly.
"If you wants sumfin to do, capting," said she, "jes' fasten dat doah above yer head." "How came it open?" he asked, as he hastily complied, still unable to comprehend what had taken place. "Habent I jes' tole yer dat I's been out on de roof?" "I heard her there," said the wife, "and was on my way to learn what it meant, when the crash came."
How I wish you could see my man, for he's so sure they'll cotch us. I don't know whar he is, for we's scattered among de good people. O, what a time I had wid 'im to git 'im started. I loaded an' unloaded four times afore he'd come. At las' a pore white man tole me he hear missus say she gwine to sell us all to de firs' trader come along.
"There wasn't no sense, so I tole 'em, in 'totin' us way off here in the dead o' winter. I'se kotched a misery in my back, and got the shivers all over me. I'se too old any way to leave my cabin thar in Floridy, and I'd a heap sight rather of stayed and died on de old plantation.
Instantly, as if by the starting of a piece of machinery a chain of bags was started ashore from hand to hand. Ambrose and Tole, who was to be engineer, climbed the bank to reconnoiter. So far no word had been spoken. Above, along the edge of the bank, were three small buildings in a line, close together.
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