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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I'm not much given to compliments, as yo' know, but yo're a wonderful man, and if yo've got something to show me, it's bound to be wonderful too, and if it's anything as wonderful as t' lies I've b'n telling those newspaper chaps about t' cannon, I reckon it'll make me open my eyes as wide as they've ever been, for sure. Good-bye."
He washed down his mouthful. "Coom, Ally, and open door t' 'er." But Ally did not come. She had her year-old baby on her knees and was feeding him. At the door of the old kitchen Jim grasped his sister-in-law by the hand. "Thot's right," he said. "Yo've joost coom in time for a cup o' tae. T' misses is in there wi' t' lil uns." He jerked his thumb toward his dining-room and led the way there.
"Did he shoot him?" asked Mr. Bellmore. "Th' horse? yes!" said Pete sententiously. "That's all we can do for a horse when he breaks a leg. He ain't no good to anybody. That's the law of th' range. Yo've got t' make good or quit!" "Poor Star," murmured Dave. "He was a good horse." "While he lasted," added Pete.
He stood before her, one hand on the chair-back on either side. She sat thus, caged between his arms, with drooping eyes and heightened color. "Not so close, David, please," she begged, fidgeting uneasily; but the request was unheeded. "Do'ee move away a wee," she implored. "Not till yo've showed me," he said, relentless. "I canna, Davie," she cried with laughing, petulance. "Yes, yo' can, lass."
"Yo've heard it afore, have yo', Sam'l Todd?" he asked sharply. "And what have yo' heard afore?" "Yo' stories, owd lad yo' stories o' Rex son o' Rally." "Which on' em "All on 'em, Tammas, all on 'em mony a time. I'm fair sick on 'em, Tammas, I welly am," he pleaded. The old man gasped. He brought down his mallet with a vicious smack.
Be'n runnin' my traps down the bank, yeah, an' along of the chute, gettin' rats. Yo' trappin'?" "No, just tripping," Terabon replied. "I was down to New Madrid this morning." "I'm just up from there. Ho law! Theh's one man I'd hate to be down below. I expect yo've hearn tell of them Despard riveh pirates? No!
Letty meanwhile had approached the boy and looked at him curiously. "Do you work in the pits too?" she asked him. The boy stared at her. "Yes," he said. "Do you like it?" He gave a rough laugh. "I reckon yo've got to like it," he said. And turning his back on his questioner, he went back to his almanac.
"Yo've had that board long enough." He calmly possessed himself of Val's drawing equipment. "Time to rest." "Yes, grandfather," his cousin assented meekly. Ricky slapped at a fly. "It seems to get hotter and hotter," she said. From the breast pocket of her sport dress she produced a handkerchief and mopped her face. Then she looked at the handkerchief in surprise. "What's the matter?
"So am I." She sighed. "Wall then yo must end it." "How can I end it?" "Yo knaw how." "Oh Jim darling haven't I told you?" "Yo've toald mae noothin' that makes a hap'orth o' difference to mae. Yo've coom to mae. Thot's all I keer for." He put his hand on her shoulder and turned her toward the house-place. "Let me shaw yo t' house now you've coom." His voice pleaded and persuaded.
However, they kept up the forms of their old friendship, though their hearts had drifted far apart. They sat hand in hand while each looked at the other with eyes inquisitive as to the changes which time had made. Molly was the first to speak. 'Well, to be sure! how thin and pale yo've grown, Sylvia! Matrimony hasn't agreed wi' yo' as well as it's done wi me.
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