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I were a fine young chap in them days, summat o' your figure only bigger ah! a sight bigger an' I were sweet on several lassies, an' won't say as they wer'n't sweet on me three on 'em most especially so. One was a tall, bouncin' wench wi' blue eyes, an' golden 'air like sunshine it were, but it wer'n't meant as I should buckle up wi' 'er." "Why not?"
But it never should have been done, lad; it wer'n't becoming like." "Thou art reet, Mary, it wer'n't the thing to do; for in getting rid o' the things nowt wur left to bring tender memories back to 'em o' him, and so, having no common sorrow, their hearts grew narrow as wur to be expected and they began to misunderstand each other and drift apart.
Nex' mawnin' w'en ole Brer Rabbit come slippin' 'long en crope thoo de crack, de loop-knot kotch 'im behime de fo'legs, en de saplin' flew'd up, en dar he wuz 'twix' de heavens en de yeth. Dar he swung, en he fear'd he gwineter fall, en he fear'd he wer'n't gwineter fall.
"No indelicate language, if you please, sir," interrupted the widow, "I won't put up with it in my house, I can tell you ho, ho, Mr Vanslyperken," continued the widow, working herself into a rage, "that won't do here, Mr Vanslyperken." "Why, you audacious you double-faced " "Double-faced! it's a pity you wer'n't double-faced, as you call it, with that snivelling nose and crooked chin of yours.
"Ye see, yer Aunt Lois was knowin' to all this 'ere about Ruth, so there wer'n't no gettin' away from it; and it's about as remarkable a providence as any o' them of Mister Cotton Marther's 'Magnilly. So if you'll come up in the barn-chamber this arternoon, where I've got a lot o' flax to hatchel out, I'll tell ye all about it."
"Return, my good fellow! this is the first syllable you have said about the matter!" "Concern on your account has caused me to forget myself. To be frank with you, Captain Truck, and if I wer'n't your very best friend I should be silent, there is considerable excitement getting up about this matter." "Excitement! what is that like? a sort of moral head-sea, do you mean?"
There wer'n't nothin' a stirrin' or goin' on; and so we was all took aback, when 'bout four o'clock in the arternoon there come a boat alongside, with a tall, elegant lady in it, all dressed in deep mournin'. She rared up sort o' princess-like, and come aboard our ship, and wanted to speak to Cap'n Tucker.
There wer'n't no Great Road there, so when I heard as how they called this the Great Road, I just stuck to it." It was a long speech. The boy had none of the half-stupid stolidity of the country-bred, and yet lacked something of the garrulity of the cute street lad. His voice too was a surprise. The broad vowels seemed acquired and uncertain and jarred on the hearer with a sense of misfit.
Old Jervis repeated the signal to prepare for action, but he might have saved the wear and tear of the bunting, for we were all ready, bulkheads down, screens up, guns shotted, tackles rove, yards slung, powder filled, shot on deck, and fire out and what's more, Mr Simple, I'll be damned if we wer'n't all willing too.
Poteet remarked after it was all over, "They wer'n't a bobble frum beginnin' to en';" and when the wedding party started down the mountain in the early hours of the morning to take conveyances at Gullettsville for the railroad station, thirty miles away, Uncle Jake Norris was sober enough to stand squarely on his feet as he held Sis's hand. "Ez St. Paul says, I prophesy in perportion to my faith.
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