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"There, there now, Doctor, I won't, doggone me ef I will," Nichol protested anxiously. Mr. Kemble met them at the door, and the captain recognized him instantly. "Why, yere's that sensible ole feller what didn't want to ast no questions," he exclaimed. "You are right, Captain Nichol, I have no questions to ask." "Well, ef folks wuz all like you I'd have a comf't'ble time"
The only response Oliver had made to either of his warnings had been a smothered yawn and a protest at being called at daylight. On his third visit Malachi was more insistent, the hall-clock by that time having struck nine. "Ain't you out'en dat bed yit, Marse Oliver? Dis yere's de third time I been yere. Better git up; yo' ma's gittin' onres'less." "Coming, Mally.
"I fear there's some extraordinary mistake here," said Mr. Peaseley, with a chilling Christian smile. "Not a bit of it. He's got a letter from Sam for one of ye. Yere, Charley what's your name! Com yere. Yere's all yer three bosses waiting for ye." And the supposed expressman and late narrator of amusing stories came forward and presented his credentials as the assistant teacher of Pine Clearing.
"Well, I'm doggoned," the little man remarked, "I'd orter thought er thet. This yere's Delisleville, 'n' I reckerlect hearin' when fust he come to Hamlin thet he was some kin to some big bugs down ter D'lisleville, 'n' his father was a Jedge doggoned ef I didn't!" Rupert De Willoughby was lying upon the grass in the garden under the shade of a tree.
"I reckon yere's where you takes a hand," remarked Alfred simply, and, riding alongside, he released the other's arms by a single slash of his knife. The man slipped from his horse and stretched his arms wide apart and up over his head in order to loosen his muscles. Alfred likewise dismounted.
"Which this yere is almighty flatterin' to Mace as a shot, an' it plumb tickles the boy's sire. He allows he's lived in Arkansaw, an' shorely knows good shootin', an' this yere's speshul good. An' then he corrals the Greaser's skelp to take back with him.
Ef I don't get a doctor, why she'll die like my little comrade died when his leg wor broke. You set nigh her, Maurice, and yere's a bit of bread." Then Joe, going up to the sick child and kneeling down by her, took one of the burning hands in his. "Missie, Missie, dear," he said, "I know as yer desperate ill, and you can't understand me.
"'Same yere, says Doc Peets, also shakin' of the Signal party's hand, which is sort o' limp an' cheerless. "However, we rips off his hobbles, an' then the outfit steers over to the Red Light to be regaled after all our hard work. "'Yere's hopin' luck an' long acquaintance, stranger, says Texas, holdin' up his glass to the Signal party, who is likewise p'lite, but feeble.
"You won't make a complaint agin' me?" "I will not." "Well, den, yere's his card wot he give me." The ruffian fumbled in his pocket and took out a card, which he passed to Frank, who eagerly grasped it. "Here's a match, me boy," said the man. "I had a pocketful w'en I braced yer for one."
"Do you mean," he asked, and his lips remained parted breathlessly upon the question, "do you mean this yere's for me?" Caleb thought of the "injine" the "steam injine." "I mean just that, if you'll have it," he replied. The boy slipped his little body into the garment and wheeled to survey himself in a mirror. In comparison with the dismembered swallowtail it was the purple of a Solomon.
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