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Updated: June 19, 2025
They belong ter me. The other childern is my half-brothers, bein' my mother war married twice. Ye kin steal this gear from me, ef that will make ye feel easier." "But what will yer gran'dad say ter me?" "He won't know who ye be; he will jes 'low ye air one o' the boys who air always foolin' away thar time visitin' me an' makin' tallow-dips skeerce."
"Gran'dad," she observed, never looking up, and speaking with her mouth full of pins, "Barton Smith say he kin set me down at Aunt Drusina's house. Ye know she be ailin', an' sent for me this evenin'; but I hed no way ter go."
I can never make you understand, my dears, how the sight of this helpless waif appearing thus unaccountably in the heart of the great forest mellowed and softened me. 'Twas a little maid, not above three or four years old, and with a face that Master Raphael might have taken as a pattern for one of his seraphs. "What know you of the king, little one?" I asked. "Gran'dad told me," she lisped.
Silas Creyshaw stood amazed, for Old Daddy had not mounted a horse for twenty years. "Studyin' 'bout'n the harnt so much hev teched him in the head," the small boy concluded. Then he made an excuse, for he knew his grandfather was too old and feeble to safely undertake a solitary jaunt on horse-back. "I war tole not ter leave ye fur a minit, gran'dad. I war ter stay nigh ye an' mind yer bid."
"Don't say it, Miss Ann! We won't never be called on ter depart from Buck Hill 'til we's good an' ready not whilst Marse Bob Bucknor's prodigy is livin', an' Mr. Jeff the spitin' image of his gran'dad.
"But then," said the warlike Timothy, not willing to lose sight of reprisal even in vague reminiscence, "he hed only one hand ter rob with arter that, fur I hev hearn ez how when gran'dad got through with him the doctor hed ter take his arm off." "Sartainly, sartainly," admitted the old man, in quiet assent.
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