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"Oh, I guess your blood is good enough," the old lady replied, laughing. Silence for a time followed that last appeal. Halstead seemed to have resigned himself to his task. Addison's pencil ciphered away; and I grew absorbed in Colter's flight from the Indians. Before long, however, a pungent odor, as of fat on a hot stove, began to pervade the house. Addison looked up and sniffed.
But when she turned back to see what damages her adored fish had suffered, she beheld Halstead, perched over the jar, also fishing in it. "My senses! You here, too!" she cried. "Can't a boy see a fish without wanting to catch it?" When she hurried back in a flurry of anxiety after chasing him to the carriage house, she found me there, too, pretending to yank one out.
In reply to our questions he at last gave us some information about his project and boasted that within three weeks he would have a turkey four pounds heavier than any other in the flock; but he would not tell us how to make his kind of dough. Addison scoffed at the scheme; but to show how well it was working, Halstead took us downstairs and had us "heft" the turkey.
First, however, I went to Northampton, and put the previous body on the car. Then the road I took was by Huntingdon, Cambridge, Halstead, and Colchester in all, about one hundred and seventy miles. The night was dark, but the roads were in fairly good condition, therefore I went at as high a speed as I dared, full of wonder as to what had really happened.
Touching the sectional question, which was then the burning issue of the time, I made the mock Halstead say: "The 'bloody shirt' is only a kind of Pickwickian battle cry. It is convenient during political campaigns and on election day. Perhaps you do not know that I am myself of dyed-in-the-wool Southern and secession stock.
After the General had mentioned that the left did so well the other day Halstead said in the Mess: 'Yes, our left flank was fine, thanks to Floyd; he managed it like a general! That is, of course exaggeration in the opposite direction; I make no claim to any talents of that kind: but it is encouraging for one's company commander to talk like that, more encouraging than the way the second-in-command, Giffin, behaves.
The white birches there were from a foot up to twenty-two inches in diameter, having long, straight trunks, clear of limbs from thirty to forty feet in length. These clear trunks only were used for bolts. Plying their axes, Halstead, Addison, Thomas and Willis felled upward of forty trees that night, and these were all sawn by dark.
The old Aztalan circuit was organized at the session of the Illinois Conference of 1837, and embraced all the settled portion of the Territory east of Madison and west of the Lake Shore Missions. The first preachers were Rev. Samuel Pillsbury and Rev. Jesse Halstead, and the year was one of extended travels and great exposure.
Halstead cried out, but the old Squire made him keep his eye closed; then the old gentleman bandaged it, and made him lie down. But after all, I am unable to report definitely as to the efficacy of the eyestone, for shortly after five o'clock, when the stone had been in Halstead's eye a little more than an hour, Doctor Green came.
Cousin Irene has been very conscientious in trying to make a lady of me, but that was a part of her bargain, wasn't it?" Mrs. Halstead glared, but made no comment, and after a moment the girl went on wistfully: "Of course, if we could have grown fond of each other it would have made things easier, but I'm so different from you-all that I guess you couldn't really like me.
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