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“Sartin,” said Sam, “dat’s de idee. Mas’r Haley hits de thing right in de mid- dle. Now, der’s two roads to de river,- de dirt road and der pike,- which Mas’r mean to take?” Andy looked up innocently at Sam, surprised at hearing this new geographical fact, but instantly confirmed what he said by a vehement reiteration. “’Cause,” said Sam, “I’d rather be ‘clined to ‘magine that ‘Lizy’d take de dirt road, bein’ it’s the least travelled.” Haley, notwithstanding that he was a very old bird, and naturally inclined to be suspicious of chaff, was rather brought up by this view of the case. “If yer warn’t both on yer such cussed liars, now!” he said, contemplatively, as he pondered a moment. The pensive, reflective tone in which this was spoken appeared to amuse Andy prodigiously, and he drew a little behind, and shook so as apparently to run a great risk of falling off his horse, while Sam’s face was immovably composed into the most doleful gravity. “Course,” said Sam. “Mas’r can do as he’d ruthur; go de straight road, if Mas’r thinks best,- it’s all one to us. Now, when I study ‘pon it, I think de straight road de best, deridedly.” “She would naturally go a lonesome way,” said Haley, thinking aloud, and not minding Sam’s remark. |
