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So saying, he carried Rosco through several winding passages until he gained a cavern so large and high, that the torch was unable to reveal either its extent or its roof. "Wonderful! why did you not tell us of this place before, Ebony?" "'Cause I on'y just diskiver him, 'bout a week past. I t'ink him splendid place for hide our wimen an childers in, if we's iver 'tacked by savages.
He's all the time on the lookout to capture white wimen to take to his Injun teepee. Simon Girty and his pals, McKee and Elliott, deserted from that thar fort right afore yer eyes. They're now livin' among the redskins down Fort Henry way, raisin' as much hell fer the settlers as they kin." "Is Fort Henry near the Indian towns?" asked Joe.
"Well, sir, I'm deuced glad I didn't let on to Melindy, for like all wimen she'd be a peekin' to see what it was. It's terrible queer that not one of 'em is better than another. Still we can't get along without 'em, nohow." Here Mr. Spriggins emphasized the remark by a shrug of his herculean shoulders, and allowed himself to think what a blank this world would be without Melindy.
"Then it's my opinion, cap'n, an' I tell it you to your face, that you ought to be ashamed of yourself to put honest men an' wimen in places like this neither light, nor hair, nor nothink in the way of hornament to " "Captain Bream! are you there, sir?" cried the voice of his friend the missionary at that moment down the companion-hatch. "Ay, ay, I'm here." "I've found her at last, sir."
"Well, I ken soon tell you that I'm down on this wimen bizness, and allers have been; and it is mean, low, dirty work this steelin' poor things any way you ken fix it, and I've told you so often. I don't believe any good will come of it in the end, either; ef I could have my way, there shouldn't, that's certain. Ef you will go ahead, why, go; but I tell you no good will come of it at last.
And then dern my skin! but a man's voice joined in jest belching outer that cabin! and I sorter lifted myself up and kem away. "That voice, gentlemen," said Mosby, lingering artistically as he took up a glass and professionally eyed it before wiping it with his towel, "that voice, cumf'bly fixed thar in thet cabin among them wimen folks, was Bulger's!"
Lots of wimen said that for anybody who lived right on the side of a canal, and had two good, cisterns on the place, and a well, they didn't see why I should feel in a sufferin' condition for any more water; and if I did, why didn't I ketch rain water?
Treatin' is treatin', hospitality is hospitality; ef you and me was squattin' out on the prairie I'd let you fill your skin with that pizen and wrap ye up in yer blankets afterwards. But here at Big Flume, the Stage Kempenny and the wimen and children passengers hez their rights." He paused a moment, and added, "And so I reckon hez Mrs.
That night she says t' me, 'Jamie, says she, 'I don't care s' much fur fishers ov men as I do for th' plowman. 'Why? says I. "'Because, says she, 'a gey good voice an' nice clothes will catch men, an' wimen too, but it takes brains t' plow up th' superstitions ov th' ignorant. "'There's somethin' in that, says I.
And she oh, my she looked as if she thought the world and all of him." "Well," exclaimed her mother and her sister again. "Sho!" said the old man. "You wimen leave William alone and quit your gabbling." The three women made a combined assault upon him. "Well, we ain't a-hurting him, are we, pa? You needn't be so snifty. I guess we ain't a-hurting him much." "Well," said the old man.
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