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Updated: September 7, 2025
He's gittin' kind o' old, an' ain't as handy as he used to be. Say, he never told you 'bout that temperator feller, Tresler, did he?" Tresler shook his head, and paused in his work to relight his pipe. "It kind o' minds me to tell you sence we're talkin' o' Joe. It likely shows my meanin' when I sez he's that soft an' honest, an' yet crazy fer drink. You see, it wus this a-ways.
I stared blankly at the fellow, a thousand questions in my mind, and a dim perception of what he meant permeating my brain. "Do you mean," I asked, horrified, "that he will compel her to marry him?" "Sum smart little guesser, ain't yer? I reckon she's in a right smart way ter do it, et thet." "And wus this the cause of the quarrel between Kirby and Kennedy?"
After I got my work all done up below, she offerin' to help me, and a not lettin' her lift her finger, I went up into her room, where there wus a bright fire on the hearth, and every thing looked cozy and snug.
And those who came to criticize generally remained to admire; for Flanagan was the kind of sailor fast disappearing from the waters, a man who had learned his seamanship before the mast. "Captain, how long will it take us to reach Funchal in the Madieras?" "Well, Commodore, give us a decent sea an' we can make 'er in fourteen days. But I thought we wus goin' t' th' Banks, sir?" "Changed my plans.
Never onct thought thar might be Injuns down yere, an' never kept no guard. Them Injuns jumped 'em at daybreak, an' not a soul knew they wus thar, till they yelled. 'Twan't no fight, just a massacre. This feller he got away, just as he sed he did, by a hidin' in the bush. I reckon he wan't even seed at all, but he wus so blame close thet he heerd 'bout all thet went on, an' even seed a bit ov it.
"No, unless you refer to 'Black Sanchez. I 've heard of him; were you ever in his hands?" "Wus I!" he laughed grimly. "I hed eight months of it, mate, and a greater demon never sailed. The things I saw done ye 'd never believe no human bein' could do. If ever thar wus two people in one skin, sir, it's thet Black Sanchez.
"O nothin'. I wus jess a-listenin' ef that soun' was buggy wheels, but I know that don't make no diff'ence to you, yo' courage is so vas'. I'm the bravess o' the brave, myseff, an' yit jess to think o' takin' yo' place fills me as full o' cole shivehs as a pup und' a pump. "Seh?
But agin I thought of what it said, "No drunkard shall inherit eternal life." And agin I didn't know what to say, and I hurried him off to bed. But, after he had gone, I spoke out entirely unbeknown to myself, and says, "I can't see through it." "You can't see through what?" says Josiah, who wus jest a comin' in.
"Yes," says he benignantly, "I will tend to your machine; and speakin' of machines, that makes me think of another thing uncle Nate and I wus talkin' about." "Machine politics, I sha'n't favor 'em. What under the sun do they want machines to make politics with, when there is plenty of men willin', and more than willin', to make 'em? And it is as expensive agin. Machines cost so much.
They listened to her respectful, stood with their hats in their' hands, answerin' her soft, and went soft out of her presence and voted license to a man. You see, they wus all willin' to give her love and courtesy and kindness, but not the right to do as her heaven-learnt sense of right and wrong wanted her to.
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