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"Every time Dick took a drink, which I must say waren't often, of course he invited me to jine, but when I said no, that was enough and he let me alone. Oh, he was shrewd, and was playing his cards like a boss of the game. "Wal, we had only one brush with the Injins, and we got to the place we had fixed on without any harm, and with most of the whiskey still in the keg.
You couldn't be ashamed of being in our regiment. I know what it was you ran away from home?" "It was no longer home to me, Punch." "Why, didn't you live there?" "Yes; but it didn't seem like home any longer. It was like this, Punch. My father and mother had died." "Oh," said the boy softly, "that's bad. Very good uns, waren't they?" Pen bowed his head. "Then it waren't your home any longer?"
"My eye," said Jack, "it waren't me, I wish it had a been." "So petrified by fear was she, that she had only time to creep half out of the bed, and to utter one cry of alarm, when the strange visitor seized her in his grasp." "D n my pig tail," said Jack, "what a squall there must have been, to be sure." "Do you see this bottle?" roared the admiral.
"I hope it was only a dream, Punch," said Pen; "but I had no business to go to sleep like that." "Why not? You waren't on sentry-go; and there was nothing to do." "I ought to have kept awake." "No, you oughtn't. I was jolly glad to see you sleep; and I lay here and thought of what a lot of times you must have kept awake and watched over me when I was so bad, and Here, whatcher going to do?"
"Well," he said, "I wouldn't care to have it known, but if you can keep a secret " "Hee-hee!" tittered the other. "Now that's right smart, that be. Waren't expectin' nobody to meet you, was you? I ain't heerd of none of the folks lookin' for visitors." "No," said Madison. "But there's a hotel in the town, isn't there?" "Two of 'em," said the other.
"'Lishus, wasn't it?" "Yes, delicious," said Pen. "Only one thing agin it," said Punch. "One thing against it," said Pen, looking up, "Why, it could not have been better." "Yes," said the boy sadly. "It waren't half enough." "Hark! Listen!" said Pen, holding up his hand. "Guns firing!" exclaimed Punch in a whisper. "Think that's in the little valley that leads up to the old mine?"
They lay there two months loadin' on account o' th' war having blocked th' nitrate beds. "Wan day O'Toole saw an old woman come limpin' along th' dock where th' Starbuck lay. She hobbled on to th' gang-plank an' started aboard, an' O'Toole began to chaff Garnett. He waren't half bad as a joker.
Fix bayonets, and at them!" "Why, Punch," said Pen, laughing, "don't you tell me again that you are not getting better!" "I waren't going to now. This warms a fellow up a bit. I say, your uncle is a bad un, and no mistake. There, forward!" "But I have nearly told all, Punch.
"'She had an accident, by yer lave, 'bout a month ago. How was it ye niver hearn tell? Waren't ye here whin th' old man brought her ashore? "'I come from 'Frisco, says she. "'Well, I s'pose ye might as well know now as niver, O'Toole blurted out; 'she's dead, owld woman. Been dead a month gone.
He paused, and then continued in the same strain: "'Tis the same at Boonesboro and up thar at the Falls settlement. The critters is everywhar, robbin' men of their claims. Davy," said Mr. Boone, earnestly, "you know that I come into Kaintuckee when it waren't nothin' but wilderness, and resked my life time and again. Them varmints is wuss'n redskins, they've robbed me already of half my claims."
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