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"'Wall, if it takes two to do his sleepin' mebbe I better be the one that suffers. Ain't she a likely womern? "Of course I agreed, for it was evident that she was likely, sometime, to make him an excellent wife and the thought of that made me happy."
"But," said Ma Fewkes, repeating her speech of three years ago, "it's so fur, Fewkes!" "Fur!" he scornfully shouted, just as he had before. "Fur!" this time letting his voice fall in contempt for the distance, for any one that spoke of the distance, and for things in general in Iowa. "Why, Lord-heavens, womern, it hain't more'n fifteen hundred mile!"
The hull world's broke loose this spring. There's five thousand Mormons on ahead, praisin' God every jump an' eatin' the grass below the roots. Womern an' children so many of 'em, so many! I kain't talk about hit! Women don't belong out here! An' now here you come bringin' a thousand more! "There's a woman an' a baby layin' dead in oar camp now," he concluded. "Died last night.
He only said ef I ever got any mail to send it ter the Judge in the Willamette settlements." "He does expect to come back to Oregon!" "How can I tell? My belief, he'd better jump in the Percific Ocean. He's a damn fool, Miss Molly. Ef a man loves a womern, that's somethin' that never orto wait.
Pretty soon she turned the blanket back, and there lay the baby, red and ugly and wrinkled. "Ain't he purty?" said she, her face glowing with love. "Oh, Jake, I thank God I didn't find the pond before you found me. I didn't know very well what I was doin'. I'll have something to love an' work fur, now. I wonder if they'll let me be a good womern.
Keeps swappin' firewater fer land an' no idee o' the danger." They left the woman in tears. "It's awful lonesome here. I'll never see ye ag'in," she declared as she stood wiping her eyes with her apron. "Here now you behave!" Solomon exclaimed. "I'll toddle up to your door some time next summer." "Mirandy is a likely womern I tell ye," Solomon whispered as they went away. "He is a mean devil!
No, sir, I couldn't never marry no other womern not if she was a queen covered with dimon's never. I 'member her so. Some folks it's easy to fergit an' some it ain't. That's the way o' it." Mr. and Mrs. Irons respected the scout, pitying his lonely plight and loving his cheerful company. He never spoke of his troubles unless some thoughtless person had put him to it.
Sam Woodhull was among those who came, and him Jackson watched narrowly every moment, his own weapon handy, as he now described the events that had brought him hither. "Our train come inter the Sweetwater two days back o' you all," he said. "We seed you'd had a fight but had went on. We knowed some was hurt, fer we picked up some womern fixin's tattin', hit were with blood on hit.
"He lighted his pipe and smoked a few whiffs and added: 'Knit seventy pair o' socks fer my regiment this fall. "'Have you asked her to marry you? I inquired. "'No. 'Tain't likely she'd have me, he answered. 'She's had troubles enough. I wouldn't ask no womern to marry me till the war is fit out. I'm liable to git all shot up any day. I did think I'd ask her but I didn't.
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