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Updated: June 10, 2025
Den she 'mence' ter figger back, en sho' 'nuff, dey wuz two er th'ee times in de las' week w'en she'd be'n he'p'n de ladies wid dey dressin' en udder fixin's in de ebenin', en Jeff mought 'a' gone down ter de swamp widout her knowin' 'bout it at all. En den she 'mence' ter 'member little things w'at she hadn' tuk no notice of befo', en w'at 'u'd make it 'pear lak Jeff had sump'n on his min'.
A fellow 'u'd think that they had niver seen a dog-pit afore. I must be d d good-looking to have so many fellows looking at me. Inside, the exhortations were kept up to fever heat.
"Um!... Lived here quite a spell, hain't you, Marvin? Quite a spell?" "Born here, Scattergood." "Know lots of folks, don't ye? Got acquainted consid'able in town and the surroundin' country?" "A feller 'u'd be apt to in fifty-five year." "Call to mind the Meggses that used to live here?" "Place next to the Newton farm. Recollect 'em well." "Lived next to Ol' Man Newton, eh? Forgot that."
"Any answer?" he asked at length. "No; that is, none that 'u'd do the matter justice," Albert said, studying the telegram. "Hartley friend o' yours?" "Yes; know him?" "Yes; he boarded where I did in Warsaw." When he came back again, the brakeman said to Albert, in a hesitating way: "Ain't going t' stop off long, I s'pose?" "May an' may not; depends on Hartley. Why?"
Ef he had come f'om roun' yere I 'd be skeered ter keep 'im, fer de w'ite folks 'u'd prob'ly be lookin' fer 'im. But I knows ev'ybody w'at's be'n conscripted fer ten miles 'roun', an' dis yere boy don' b'long in dis neighborhood. W'en 'e gits so 'e kin he'p 'isse'f we 'll put 'im up in de lof an' hide 'im till de Yankees come.
When we couldn't see no more, we went home by the high road, because we knowed the brook 'u'd be out acrost the medders, an' we wasn't goin' to hunt for Jim's little rotten old bridge in that dark an' rainin' Heavens' hard, too. I was middlin' pleased to see light an' vittles again when we got home. Jim he pressed me to come insides for a drink.
Dan said nothing, but threw his fish over again. "Guess it's best to be on the safe side," he murmured at last. "I'd give a month's pay if this fog 'u'd lift. Things go abaout in a fog that ye don't see in clear weather yo-hoes an' hollerers and such like. I'm sorter relieved he come the way he did instid o' walkin'. He might ha' walked." "Don't, Dan! We're right on top of him now.
Ef that's all, that 'u'd be all right!" she said, with relief. "You could take up a collection. The boys would be real generous. They always are when any show comes along. They'd appreciate it, you know, and I'd like fer Miss Earle here to hear you preach. It 'u'd be a real treat to her, her being a preacher's daughter and all."
And as for ghosts, I have more than a lurking sympathy with the farrier in "Silas Marner." "'If ghos'es want me to believe in 'em, let 'em leave off skulking i' the dark and i' lone places let 'em come where there's company and candles! "'As if ghos'es 'u'd want to be believed in by anybody so ignorant! said Mr.
"I let on I needed money, and told him if he'd gimme two hunderd dollars I'd destroy the evidence and let the old man go. He says he didn't have the money, and I says he had the organ money. He didn't say nothin' for a spell, and then he says, kind of low, and wonderin', 'Which 'u'd be the worst?
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