Then, besides, up there they could see for miles, and Coe had kedged the schooner acrost the fairway so that Afiola might reckonize his relations in the rigging.
He ran acrost her first when he was ashore doctoring some of his native friends, and handing out pain-killer and salts unstinted.
He an' two more used to row a boat acrost the river every day to go to ole Niles's school.
He bes a grand lad in his own way, an' ginerous an' fair wid his friends--but Saint Peter help the man who hauls acrost his bows!
They come ashore in their boats, sir, an' left the ship acrost a rock wid a hole in her bows bigger nor this house.
Granfather Fortner killed an Injun chief acrost the Maumee River at the battle of Fallen Timbers with a bullet thet Granmother hed run fur him an' markt with a little cross.
Just then a whistle sounded rithe away acrost the Weald.
Ten minutes a'terwards he was dying acrost my knees on the spar-deck of the Don.
But on my nigh side, only a little ways acrost from us sot the ponderous man I remembered on my journey thither who wanted to be a fly.
But I went on andacrost to a balcony, and after I went in, a gate snapped shet behind me and I couldn't git back.
Faith's sweet face, for she had come back and set down acrost the room.
Eyes that look acrost the coffee pot at you every mornin' never ketched sight on 'em, nor the ones that walk up and down in them hidden gardens.
Only a little way acrost from Alexandria Bay is Westminster Park, a handsome little village, with a big hotel set back under its green trees and lots of cottages round it.
Walk right along down this here crick," I says, "till you get to where it comes out'n the woods and runs acrost the road in under an iron bridge.
That is riding the rods down underneath the cars, with a piece of board put acrost 'em to lay yourself on.
I throwed up my arm, and it cut meacrost the knuckles.
Well, I thinks to myself, here is where Daniel puts one acrostthe plate.
And they sent me scooting acrost town to get him quick.
So I eases off my shoes, careful-like, and I eases acrost the floor to them sliding doors, and I puts my eye down to the little crack.
He stopped in the road right in front of me, and wheeled his hoss acrost the road and stood up in his stirrups and took a long look at that blaze.
And then it struck a plank bridge somewheres, and come acrost it with a clatter.
Under his brown skin, where his shirt was torn open acrost his chest, you could see that nigger's heart a-beating.
The next town we come to there was a county fair, and the doctor run acrost an old pal of his'n who had a show on the grounds and wanted to hire him fur what he called a ballyhoo man.
Looey says he was born nigh there, and was prowling around town the day before and run acrost an old aunt of his'n he had forgot all about.
I run acrost a couple I knowed out there the first thing--it was Watty and the snake-charmer woman.
So we got a rig the next morning and drove acrost the country.
But as he looked at us they come a sudden change acrost his face--he must of seen the doctor before, and with a sob he throwed himself on his knees in the road and clasped his hands and held 'em out toward Doctor Kirby.
That fare to be my train," I says to myself, and drinks my beer as quick as I can and goos acrost to the station again.
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