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But killing all them folk that's got no quarrel, and burnin' their houses and farms, and tramplin' down all that good corn and all them brave men dead what can never live again its scandalous, I say." This at the outset.
In the daylight it's none so hard to keep the black thoughts under; themselves they're not so daresome; and there's one's pipe, and the haver o' the young fry. But night's the time! Then they come tramplin' along, a whole army of 'em, carryin' banners with letters a dozen feet high, so's you shan't miss rememberin' what you'd give your soul to forget.
If you don't, stay here, because I can get it in time, and don't want no one tramplin' over the ground. I was a scout for five years, and well, I worked in the Geronimo raid." Dick and Bill looked at him with a new admiration, marveling that the man had never before betrayed that much of his variegated and hard career. "You're right! I believe you're right," the superintendent exclaimed.
Jonas wakened a little from his mental swoon. Life seemed warmer, more tangible, again. "Law, do go," said the mother soothingly. "She don't want the whole township tramplin' up there to eye over her chiny. Make her as nervous as a witch. Here's the ha'-bushel basket, an' some paper to put between 'em. You go, Jonas, an' I'll clear off the shelves."
Jonas wakened a little from his mental swoon. Life seemed warmer, more tangible, again. "Law, do go," said the mother soothingly. "She don't want the whole township tramplin' up there to eye over her chiny. Make her as nervous as a witch. Here's the ha'-bushel basket, an' some paper to put between 'em. You go, Jonas, an' I'll clear off the shelves."
And right acrost from 'em wuz some of our old 4 mothers, in a rude, log hut, not strong enough to keep out the cold, or the Injuns. One wuz a cardin' wools, one of 'em wuz a spinnin' 'em, a tryin' to make clothes to cover the starved, half-naked old 4 fathers who wuz a tramplin' round in the snow with bare feet and shiverin' lims. And one of 'em had a gun in her hand.
Stan's to reason that when they found theirselves onable to steer clear o' that there spout they'd go below and shut theirselves up as best they could, knowin' as nothin' livin' could surwive a waterspout tramplin' over 'em, as one may say; but where be them there chaps now? If they was all right they'd be out on deck by this time wouldn't they? lookin' roun' to see the extent o' the damage.
"Samson South done that thar with his rifle-gun," he enlightened. "He's a funny sort of feller, is Samson South." "How?" she asked. "Wall, he licked us, an' he licked us so plumb damn hard we was skeered ter fight ag'in, an' then, 'stid of tramplin' on us, he turned right 'round, an' made me a deputy. My brother's a corporal in this hyar newfangled milishy.
They're comin' on mad for feed, tramplin' and bawlin', and they'll hit your place first mos' likely tho' they may turn south at Beckers better phone Beckers and see." "All right!" said Pearl, in a steady voice, "all right, and thank you."
"Openin', and blowin', and tramplin'," sez I dreamily. "Yes," sez the man, "that's what it duz." And agin Josiah shawed loud. And agin I kep' calm, and sez I, "I'd give a cent to see it." And sez I, "Do you suppose it would blow out and trample if we should go in?" But Josiah grasped holt of my arm and sez, "'Taint safe! my dear Samantha! don't le's go near the house." "Why?
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