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Then he fastened a head martingale on, and buckled it to the girths atwixt his fore legs. Says I, 'Father, what on airth are you at? I vow I feel ashamed to be seen with such a catamaran as that, and colt looks like old Satan himself no soul would know him. 'I guess I warn't born yesterday, Sam, says he, 'let me be, I know what I am at.
I'll ha' nothing to do wi' the likes o' you as goes about takin' poor folks's childer from 'em. There's my poor Glory's been an' took atwixt you an' grannie, and shet up in a formatory as you calls it; an' I should like to know what right you've got to go about that way arter poor girls as has mothers to help." "I assure you I had nothing to do with it," said my father.
"It is a man!" exclaimed the trapper, rising. "It is a man, if I am a judge of the creatur's ways. There is but little said atwixt the hound and me, but we seldom mistake each other's meaning!" Paul Hover sprang to his feet like lightning; and, throwing forward his rifle, he cried in a voice of menace "Come forward, if a friend; if an enemy, stand ready for the worst!"
"When a man consort much with a people," continued Hawkeye, "if they were honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.
You have not yet answered my question: what is our distance from the main army at Edward?" "It seems that may depend on who is your guide. One would think such a horse as that might get over a good deal of ground atwixt sun-up and sun-down."
"Hoot!" shouted the scout, who did not spare his open laughter, though, instantly checking the dangerous sounds, he indulged his merriment at less risk of being overheard by any lurking enemies. "You are as much off the scent as a hound would be, with Horican atwixt him and the deer!
But Grettir said that he had no words to make atwixt and atween of his going thence. "Oft have I so said," says he, "and no need there is for thee to talk to me thereon; ye must even do as ye will, but here will I abide, whatso may come to hand." Now Thorbiorn deemed, that this time also his errand was come to nought, and he said,
'Say you the word, quoth I, 'and I'll wed him." "Poor Luke!" "Prithee, why poor Luke?" "To be bandied about so, atwixt yea and nay." "Why, Reicht, you have not ever been so simple as to cast an eye of affection on the boy, that you take his part?" "Me?" said Reicht, with a toss of the head. "Oh, I ask your pardon. Well, then, you can do me a good turn."
"Hurt, man!" said Nimbus, impatiently. "Dar ain't much difference atwixt him an' a dead man, now. "Good God! Nimbus, you don't mean that. He seems to sleep well," said Hesden, bending over the prostrate form. "Sleep! Marse Hesden, I'se kerried him tree miles sence he's been a-sleepin' like dat; an' de blood's been a runnin' down on my hans an' a-breakin' my holt ebbery now an' den, tu!"
"Oi dunno if she did, Oi didn't hear her." "What else?" "Thin Oi heard the front dure slam." "Did you see anybody come in or go out?" "Sure, an' Oi did not." "What time was this, as near as you can remember?" "Atwixt tin an' eliven o'clock." "Did you hear anything after the slamming of the front door?" "Oi did not, fer Oi wint down to the barn directly afterwards."
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