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"Well, by dogs, we've had a tough 'bout of it, boys; and, hark'ye, strannger, gi' us your hand. I don't know what we should have done without you, for I never seed man handle a little poleaxe as you did that same affair of your'n. You must have spent, I reckon, a pretty smart time at the use of it, now, didn't ye?"
I didn't hear much from him from 10 P.M. to 5 A.M., only once I heard him murmer in his sleep, "buzz saw mill." But every time I would come out into the settin' room where he sot and roust him up to get sunthin' for me, he would say, almost warmly "Samantha, that last remark of your'n wuz very powerful."
I guess he ain't your'n, and so you won't mind if I touch him up a little; I want to see how well you can sit on a horse." Passing his arm through the bridle as he said these words, Mr. Saunders led the pony down to the side of the road where grew a clump of high bushes, and, with some trouble, cut off a long, stout sapling.
Then he began grumbling again: "With your flying into the face of your own wittles and drink! I don't know how scarce you mayn't make the wittles and drink here, by your flopping tricks and your unfeeling conduct. Look at your boy: he is your'n, ain't he? He's as thin as a lath. Do you call yourself a mother, and not know that a mother's first duty is to blow her boy out?"
By speakin', I don't mean chatterin', howsever; for most of them will do that by the hour; but comm' out with their honest, deepest feelin's in proper words. And now, Judith, having got the answer of a red-skin girl, it is fit I should get that of a pale-face, if, indeed, a countenance that is as blooming as your'n can in any wise so be tarmed.
"Stow yer gab, Jarge," retorted Surly, more surly than ever, "you be a sight too fond o' usin' that theer voice o' your'n!" saying which he turned to Barnabas: "Did ye see ever a desprit, poachin' wagabone run down this 'ere lane, sir?" he inquired. "No," answered Barnabas. "Well, did ye see ever a thievin' wastrel run oop this 'ere lane?" demanded Stentor. "No," answered Barnabas.
But he answered, as sharply as he knew how: "I's goin' a-fishin'. Any ob youah business?" "Where'd you learn to fish?" the stranger asked. "Down South? Didn't know they had any there." "Nebbah was down Souf," was the surly reply. "Father run away, did he?" "He nebber was down dar, nudder." "Nor his father?" "'T aint no business o' your'n," said Dick; "but we's allers lived right heah on dis bay."
Murphy knew this last, savage though he was; and had duly delivered to him, on many a previous occasion, that strange message of his that compelled the most savage to let him pass free. "Oh! he can come: I likes that dog o' your'n," called Job, ordering Scot to his place beneath the bleached and weather-worn hut on wheels, in which all the miscellaneous articles of a shepherd's craft lay stored.
"That may be true, Moses: but I cannot handle the law, even with your powerful aid; nor should I wish to, if I could. I am bound to gaol, my friends, having no bail, so " "Bail! Why I'll be your bail; and, if you want two, there's Neb." "I fancy the gentleman don't much understand being taken on a writ," the attorney simpered. "I not understand it! That's a bloody poor guess of your'n, my friend.
I tell you what, when the crop went to town, the old 'squire must have had a mighty smart chance to pay; for, whatever people might say of old Eben, he knew how to calculate from your pocket into his with monstrous sartainty. Well, as I was saying, 'squire, I shouldn't be afraid to go you a a little bet that old Ralph Colleton is some kin of your'n. You're both of the same stock, I reckon."
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