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He seized the lapel of my coat and held me prisoner, pouring forth his confessions with a faith in my interest by which I was at once-amazed and touched. "You see it's this way," he said, "it's this way, Mister. We're home folks, me an' Esmeraldy, an' we're a long way from home, an' it sorter seems like we didn't get no useder to it than we was at first. We're not like mother.

She slid down to the floor and cried something awful. Gents, that was sure the real distress, nothing soft and sloppy, but hard, wrenchy, deep ones, like you hear at a melodrayma. 'Twas only back in '99 that I seen an awful crying match, though both of the ladies had been drinking, so I felt like I was useder to emotion than the balance of the boys, and it was up to me to take a holt.

You've had more schoolin' an' you'll be more at home than we should. You're useder to city ways, havin' lived in 'Lizabethville. But it only vexed her. People in town had been talking to her about traveling and letting me learn things, and she'd set her mind on it." She was very simple and unsophisticated. To the memory of her former truly singular life she clung with unshaken fidelity.

"Did yer see them little fingers uv hern a-holdin' out that pan? did yer see her, fellers?" inquired an excited miner. "Yes, an' the way she made that dirt git, ez though she was useder to washin' than wallopin'," said another. "Wallopin'!" echoed a staid miner. "I'd gie my claim, an' throw in my pile to boot, to be a young 'un an' git walloped by them playthings of han's."