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"Yes, cleared out, within a fortnight, bag and baggage; all on account of that deuced little spree we had here the other night. By-the-by, Mr. Wilkins, I believe you have had a finger in this pie. How could you treat a fellow so?" "I told you I would report you." "Well, 'twasn't hardly fair, I vum. I didn't do more than the rest, but I suffer all alone.
Here it is broad daylight, and that fire not built. I vum, sir, you need a thrashin', the whole kit an bilun' of ye; yessir! Come, come, come! hustle now, stir your boots! hustle y'r boots ha! ha! ha!" It was of no use to plead cold weather and damp chips. "What has that got to do with it, sir? I vum, sir, when I was your age, I could make a fire of green red-oak; yessir!
"I vum!" he ejaculated, with more interest than before. "I must ha' cracked my head some. Why was it I didn't drown?" "This little missy, here," said the black-eyed youth, quickly. "She saved you, Mister. She held your head above water till I come." "Why why Niece Ruth! you did that?" "Oh, it was nothing, Uncle Jabez! I am so glad you are not hurt worse. This boy really saved you.
Wal, ef I don't e'en a'most vum it's the same one! ef ye ha'n't been nigh abeout a hull year a-knittin' one pair uv socks!" "How do you know they're the same pair?" asked I. "By a mark I see you sot in 'em ter the top, ef ye want ter know, afore I thought it would be hangin' by the eyelids the rest uv yer days.
He stood in the pen and shrieked with laughter while the hired men went rolling, one after the other, upon the ground, or were bruised against the fence by the rush of the burly swine. "You're a fine lot," he laughed. "Now, then, sir, grab 'im! Why don't ye nail 'im? I vum, sir, if I couldn't do better'n that, sir, I'd sell out; I would, sir, by gol! Get out o' the way!"
"I vum!" she exclaimed, sitting down for the first time in years "at the first table." "If this don't beat Crawberry and them boarders, I'm crazy as a loon. Pour the coffee, Sister and don't be stingy with the milk. Milk's only five cents a quart here, and it's eight in town. But, gracious, child! sugar don't cost no less." Old Lem Camp sat beside Hiram, as he had at the boarding-house table.
"Hello!" said he, "Sandy, I vum! That means 't Benny ain't fur off. You don't ketch that feller to stir a peg from Benny 'f he c'n help himself." 'Bijah gave Sandy some milk, feeling sure that if Benny was on earth, Sandy would go straight back again to where he had left him.
They easily got across the river in the storekeeper's lighter boat, and Ruth displayed her oarsmanship to better advantage, for the oars were lighter. The miller noted her work and grunted his approval. "I vum! they did teach ye suthin' at thet school 'sides folderrols, didn't they?" he said. Ruth asked the store clerk if he knew anything about the Gypsies. "Why, yes, Miss.
"Well, I vum!" drawled the expressman, at length recovering speech. "I hope Huldy'll be satisfied." But Cap'n Joab Beecher was not. He stood up and pointed his stick at the heap of rubbish on the floor and his voice quavered as he shrilly asked: "Then, where's Cap'n Abe?" They all turned to stare again at Cap'n Amazon. That hardy mariner seemed to be quite as self-possessed as usual.
"Did Tom Baldwin tell you that?" demanded the old lady abruptly, looking deeply incensed. "Yes, he did." "Well, he's the ungratefullest cub that I ever sot eyes on," exclaimed his indignant grandmother. "Arter all I've done for him. I'm knittin' a pair of socks for him this blessed minute. But he sha'n't have 'em. I'll give 'em to the soldiers, I vum. Did he say anything else?"
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