"No!--an' thank 'E's marcy, I'm sittun by my own room. 'E tooked me
off; but 't was a dreadful sight,--it's no use,--ef a body'd let
'e'sself think! I sid a great black bear, an' hard un growl; an' 't
was feelun, like, to hear un so bold an' so stout, among all they
dreadful things, an' bumby the time 'ould come when 'e could n' save
'e'sself, do what 'e woul'.
"An' more times 't was all still: on'y swiles bawlun, all over. Ef it
had n' a-been for they poor swiles, how could I stan' it? Many's the
one I'd a-ketched, daytime, an' talked to un, an' patted un on the head,
as ef they'd a-been dogs by the door, like; an' they'd oose to shut
their eyes, an' draw their poor foolish faces together. It seemed
neighbor-like to have some live thing.
"So I kep' awake, sayun an' singun, an' it was n' very cold; an'
so,--first thing I knowed, I started, an' there I was lyun in a heap;
an' I must have been asleep, an' did n' know how 't was, nor how long
I'd a-been so: an' some sort o' baste started away, an' 'e must have
waked me up; I could n' rightly see what 't was, wi' sleepiness: an'
then I hard a sound, sounded like breakers; an' that waked me fairly.
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