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Lowering himself stiffly until he was seated upon the dead grass before her, he pointed eloquently into his wide-open mouth. Dallas understood. "Hungry," she said. He nodded again. She had never heard a scoffing white declare that the red man is, above all, a beggar, so she did not delay answering his mute petition. She stooped to examine again the cuts and bruises on his feet.
"That's Dallas," she agreed. He passaged in cavalry fashion until he was between her and the shack. Then he assumed a front that was cautiously humble. "Lounsbury's had the best of it," he complained. "He's known you right from the start. And this is the first chance I've ever had to know you." She stopped toeing. "But I don't know you," she returned. "Mr. Lounsbury's never told me "
Beggars and tramps were unknown. Judged by the facts of life the system of slavery and large proprietors was not so bad as it appeared; and as the South came into full self-consciousness, say with the inauguration of Polk and Dallas, the problems of adjustment of the different economic groups, of providing better educational facilities for the poorer classes, and of meeting certain religious and social requirements of the slaves themselves, were fully recognized by the masters, and beginnings of improvement in all these matters were already making.
"People who do that kind of thing always get into trouble. She might miss her train. She's almost certain to miss her train." "You're temporizing," Dallas said sternly. "We won't let her miss her train; you can be sure of that." "Jim," Anne broke in suddenly, "hasn't she a picture of Bella? There's not the faintest resemblance between Bella and Kit." Jim became downcast again.
He wore the same buckskin suit when he appeared in Washington as the delegate to Congress from Oregon. It was at the time of Polk and Dallas, and not a person in Washington probably knew him when he made his appearance at the Congressional Hotel. The people at the hotel stared at him as the children did now. He went into the great dining-room with the other Congressmen, but alone and unknown.
"Here's someone coming," she announced, inwardly glad at the possibility of diversion. Dallas hurriedly joined her. "Who can it be?" she asked. The door was unbolted, the other window not fastened. Yet so far were her thoughts from molestation that she left them so. "Going to ask him in?" questioned Marylyn. "Not till I find out who he is." They fell silent, conjecturing.
"The last time Mr. Lounsbury was here," she said, hesitatingly, "it was the 6th, and to-day is " "Ah c'n git it," the section-boss interrupted. After a moment's tallying on his fingers, he sat back and clapped his knees in excitement. "W'y, Dallas!" he cried, "th' day after t'-morrow's the end o' thet man's six months!" Dallas released Marylyn.
On May 28th McPherson was ordered to prepare for moving to the extreme left, continuing the extension of our line toward the railroad. Suspecting this, the Confederates made a fierce attack upon the position in front of Dallas, but were repulsed with heavy loss.
We thus have from Confederate authorities the proof that the army was nearly 80,000 strong on June 10th, after the first month of the campaign had closed, including the engagements at Dalton, Resaca, New Hope Church, Dallas, and Pickett's Mill.
"Governor Dallas and myself made various opportunities of meeting members of the present and of the late Government of Canada, and of talking over the subject of the North-west, and of its organization and government; and I feel convinced that these unofficial discussions were of considerable use, and may help to prevent antagonism and territorial claims on the part of Canada, which, in my opinion, might be very embarrassing, and ought to be foreseen and avoided.
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