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"'The fleetest hound in all the North, an' I'm durned if I jist likes ther way you uns makes yerselves et hum in this yere cabin." "Shet up, Jed Bungay," cut in his better-half, sharply, and as she spoke she caught the little man unceremoniously by one arm, and thrusting him roughly to one side strode heavily forward until she paused in the centre of the room, facing us with her arms akimbo.
"O! go long, will ye?" said the mother, giving now and then a kick, in a kind of general way, under the table, when the movement became too obstreperous. "Can't ye be decent when white folks comes to see ye? Stop dat ar, now, will ye? Better mind yerselves, or I'll take ye down a button-hole lower, when Mas'r George is gone!"
The old man's done for, this time, ez I allow spang in the innards. Ease me down and get off for yerselves, if so be ye can, im me jit " The wagging jaw dropped and the keen old eyes went dim and sightless. Dick's oath was more a sob than an imprecation; and now it was I who said: "Come on the living before the dead!" and so we made the well-nigh hopeless dash for the horses.
"Or mayhap an ex-president of the United States, or forby the senator from Oklahoma. Belike he was once minister to Borneo, an' came home in a hurry an' forgot who he was. But John Merrick will be wanting me." He escaped and opened the door. Then, with his hand on the knob, he turned and added: "Why don't ye come in, me journalistic investigators, and see the fun for yerselves?
'Of all the ould lazy-boots I ever see, ye're the biggest, apostrophizing the silent stoical Indians as he passed where they lounged; 'ye've a good right to be ashamed of yerselves, so ye have, for a set of idle spalpeens. The eldest of the trio removed his pipe for an instant and uttered the two words 'I savage. Andy's rhetoric had been totally incomprehensible.
Ye're welcome to the village, and good sport ye can promise yerselves if ye'll go the right way about it." "Then we must hope," put in a second of the students, "that some of you who know will not be above giving us a word of advice." "The Lord forbid," ejaculated old Bentley in a most serious tone. "And the very best spot in the country is the spot we were talkin' of as ye came along.
Have some tea, sir?" and he held the tea-pot over the Governor's cup. "Not too strong, eh? That's good. Ye'll find cream and sugar right there. Help yerselves, now, and don't be backward." "Well, that's the best meal I've had in a long time," the Senator remarked, as he finished, and drew forth his cigar case and passed it around. "You didn't do all this yourself, did you, captain?"
She got back into bed, exclaiming to herself with great emphasis: "There, now, fight it out among yerselves." "Mary!" he almost shouted, hardly believing his senses. He recovered himself instantly, and explained his errand, but the pallor of his face was unmistakable.
They're tired 'nough ter stand, an' there ain't anything fer 'em to graze on. Then we kin hoof it over ter the place I'm tellin' yer about, an' yer kin sorter size it up fer yerselves. That's fair, ain't it?"
At this instant Tim O'Rooney came opposite them. He merely glanced up, puffed harder than ever and was passing on, when both burst out in a loud laugh. "Be the powers! what's the mather with ye spalpeens?" he angrily demanded. "Can't a dacent man be passing the sthrats widout being insulted Howly mother! is it yerselves or is it your grandfathers?"
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