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"I seen her fo' the first time as I was warmin' the trail within a mile of old man Rhett's. She was carrying a grist of co'n down to the mill in her father's ox cart. When I clapped eyes on her I says, 'I'll marry that lady. I'll make her the Countess of Lambeth she'll shore do fo' the peerage any day! That was yo' mommy, sneezic's!" Mr.
Got any 'jections ter weuns warmin' up a little by dat fiah? Gittin' powful cold, boss, an' it jes' happens we ain't got nary a match in our clo's, dat's a fack," said the leader, advancing eagerly and holding out his hands toward the blaze. "Why, of course not, boys; make yourselves at home. I was just going aboard anyway, and the fire's yours," remarked Maurice, rising.
He accompanied the words by a spring of triumph from the ground, and surveyed the already senseless turnkey with exultation. In a moment, however, he was secured, for the purpose of being put into strong irons. "To the devil's warmin' pan wid ye all," he continued, "you may do your worst. I defy you. Ha! by the heavens above me, you'll suffer for this, my fine gintleman.
You're a-going to bolt, are you? Come to the pollis, you young warmin, come to the pollis! 'You give me my money back, if you please, said I, very much frightened; 'and leave me alone. 'Come to the pollis! said the young man. 'You shall prove it yourn to the pollis. 'Give me my box and money, will you, I cried, bursting into tears.
"Henry, you shorely hev a great head," said Sol, "an' this looks to me like payin' back to a man what belongs to him. That harelipped scoundrel and his fellows warmed by our fire in the Council House, and now we'll jest give 'em notice that thar's another warmin'."
'Well, said Hope, 'You tell us a lot o' things we could buy. 'Less see! said Uncle Eb, looking very serious. 'There's bootjacks an' there's warmin' pans 'n' mustard plasters 'n' liver pads 'n' all them kind o' things. We both shook our heads very doubtfully. 'Then, he added, 'there are jimmyjacks 'n' silver no nuthin's. There were many other suggestions but none of them were decisive.
I had my mind made up what to do, but I got to shootin' off my gab instead of my gun. I called him Nez Perce an' I throwed all thet talk in his face about old Gass Isbel sendin' fer him -an' I told him he'd git run out of the Tonto. Reckon I was jest warmin' up.... But then it all happened. He slugged Lorenzo jest one. An' Lorenzo slid peaceful-like to bed behind the counter.
When the autumn weather began to grow wintry, little Katty Patman, "perishin' about out there in the freezin' win'," became a spectacle which was viewed with indignant sympathy from dark doorways whence she received many an invitation to step in and be warmin' herself.
All of them also put fur flaps on their raccoon-skin caps, and Shif'less Sol even managed to fashion an imitation of gloves out of deerskin. "I wouldn't advise you to try to use your hands much with these gloves on," he said; "leastways, not to shoot at anything till you took 'em off; but I do say that so long ez your hands are idle, they'll be pow'ful warmin' to the fingers."
"I don't care how soon I begin caperin' ahead with that load again." "Well, it'll be warmin', anyway," returned the Colonel, "and I can't say as much for your fire." It was luck that the first forty miles of the trail had already been traversed by the Boy. He kept recognising this and that in the landscape, with an effect of good cheer on both of them.
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