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Show 4G TilE ADT'1~~"f'URE8 OJ., IIUCJ{LEBERR1~ Ji'I.Y~\~ an<l iL. ee1nrd tcrribl ~still. lie was laying over by th0. corner. By-and-by he raised np, part way, and listened, with hi~ head to one side. lie ·nys very low: " Tramp-tnnnp- tnunp; that's the d ad; trarnp-tramp -tnunp; they·recolning after 1ne; huL I \von't go- ()h, they're h rr! don't touch 1ne-don 't! hands off-th<_\y'rc cold ; ] <'L go- Oh, let a poor devil alon ! " Thrn hr went down on all four: and erawlrd off begging tl1 m to ]eL hi1n alone, ancl he rollrd hims If np in his blanket and wallowed in undrr the ol<l pin table, still a-begging; and 1 hen he went to crying. 1 could hear him through the hlan kct. Hy-nnd-hy he rolled out au<l jLunpecl np on his feet looking wild, m1d he ce 1nc an<l W(•nt for 1ne. 1 [e chas \d me round and rouud i11r plac \rilh a cla. p-knife, calling n1e th Angel of Death, and :aying he wonlcl kill1n e, ancl then I coul<ln·t come for l1in1 no 1nor . I heggecl, and told l1 i1n I ''"as only II uck, but he lang heel snch a .'Cr cchy laugh, and rnared and cu sed, and kept on <'ha. ing rne up. Once when I turned . hort and dodged under his arrrl he n1ade a grab nncl got 1n by the jacket. bcLwcen my shoulders, and I thought I \ras gone; bni I slid ont of t lte jack t quick a· lightning, nnd saved myself. Pretty soon he was all tirrd out, and <lropp('d down with his back again ... t thP door, and said h \ronlcl rest a 1ninute and then kill 111 c . He put hi. knife under hitn, antl .·aid he woull .-1 cp ancl geL ·trong. an<l th n he would see who was who. So he dozed off, pretty . oon. By-ancl-by I got thc old ·plitboltOin chair and clumb up, as ea.'y a I could, not to 1nake any noise, and got down the gun. I slipped i.he ramrod clown it to make sure it wa.-· loaded, and then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wail for him to stir. And how slow and :till the time dicl clrng aloug. iiAPTER 0 --- " (:11' u I' ... " Bonu,body tried to g<'t. in, . ·o I "\\~lty di<ln t you ron. t 111 ouL ( '' up; \rhat you 'bout ~ '' I opened my y< ·s and look cl a.ro1u1d, i rying to n1akr ont \vh ere I \YH.'. IL wa~ n fter sun-up, and I h:ul be ·n .. ouncl as] P]>. J>np 'ras ,·t£lnding O\ ' <'l. l\1C, looking sourand ick, too. lf<~ ::;~1Yf-l- ' \rhat you doiH~ with t ltis gun?~, I juclgcd hr didn't know noll1ing aboni ·what h had hcen doing, so I , ay. : \ras lnying f r hitn.' ' \V('ll, I t rircl to, but I conldn ·t ; I coulun't btHlgc you.'' "\Yell, all right. Don't tand there pala\'ering all day, but out with you and s e if there's a fi. h on the lines for brcakfa .. t. rn b..., along in a nlinute." |