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Well, as I tell ye, I seen a boot, likewise a leg, an' theer were this 'ere wanderin' man o' the roads a-danglin' be'ind th' door from a stapil look ye!" he exclaimed, rising with some little difficulty, and hobbling into the hut, "theer be th' very stapil, so it be!" and he pointed up to a rusty iron staple that had been driven deep into the beam above the door.
"I don't want a governess," said Mary sharply. "But mother says you ought to be learnin' your book by this time an' you ought to have a woman to look after you, an' she says: 'Now, Martha, you just think how you'd feel yourself, in a big place like that, wanderin' about all alone, an' no mother. You do your best to cheer her up, she says, an' I said I would." Mary gave her a long, steady look.
There were some wicked people wanderin' about there, and they not killed them, you know, but went to the judge. We shall see what they did to them. I tell you this to make you understand. Now the story begins but I must think a little. Ernest, let's sing 'Since first I saw your face.
He never interfered with the acts of his fellow-servants, except in so far as those acts affected his master's comfort; and he paid no attention to their words except where they affected himself. "When you think it's a ghost, it's only Krool wanderin' w'ere he ain't got no business," was the angry remark of the upper-housemaid, whom his sudden appearance had startled in a dim passage one day.
It was a beautiful sort o' submarine garden, so to speak, an' long Tom Skinclip was so fond o' flowers an' gardens nat'rally, that he forgot hisself, an' went wanderin' about what he called the `submarine groves' till they thought he must have gone mad. They could see him quite plain, you see, from the boat, an' they watched him while he wandered about.
After hobblin' an' throwin' loose my team, I lugs out the grub-box all sorrowful an' goes into camp. "Which I should allers have played the Colonel for dead, if it ain't that years later he one day comes wanderin' into Wolfville. He ain't tender now; he's as hard as moss-agates, an' as worthless.
Yis, it's thirty years agone sence I hefted the fust trout from this pool, and br'iled him on the bank there, and a toothsome supper he made for me, too. Lord-a-massy, boy," exclaimed the old man, half turning toward his companion, "what a thing memory be! Thirty year! and I've seed some wanderin' sence then, but I remember as though I'd eat him last night jest how that trout tasted.
But, yer see, when I got him he was a broken-down cow hoss what hed been ridden ter death an' fed on sand an' alkali water so long thet he wa'n't much good nohow." "Jest picked him up wanderin'?" "Not eggsactly. Yer see, it wuz this way: I was coming ercross Noo Mexico about a month back, when I runs foul o' a hombre what is all in.
It was she that was screaming so!" "I should say it was. I tried to cotch her " "And that scared her more, I suppose." "Huh! Be I so scareful to look at?" the stranger demanded. "Or, mebbe you ain't loony, lady?" "I should hope not," rejoined Ruth, beginning to laugh. "Then how in tarnation," demanded the bearded man, "do you explain your wanderin' about these woods in this storm?"
"Oh, yes, I remember. It was jist whar Redmond had settled down among the Injuns. Me mind was wanderin' a bit, due, no doubt, to old age. Well, Redmond tried to find peace an' contentment in the little village. From the loopholes of retreat he did watch the ways of civilization, an' the more he watched, the more dissatisfied he became.
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