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CHAPTER IX.—THE VAUDEVILLE SHOW.,“Oh, I s’pose she can, only a fellow doesn’t expect it of her. How came you out here? I thought you’d be watching for refugees.”,Supper over and dishes hurried out of sight, the floor was once more cleared and the real business of the evening was resumed.,“A new kind of hen,” retorted Moses.,CHAPTER IX RED GOOSE FLESH,“My poor lamb, my little darling,” she said, speaking with difficulty, “There are so many lynxes in the woods, and he’s so afraid of them. If he meets one he’ll die of fright.”,“Larst Tuesday,” she continued, “two p’licemen went ridin’ along the trail jist as we were comin’ home from school, an’ they had the beautifulest horses. Moses can ride any horse, no matter how ornery.” Betty’s eyes shone with pride.,It took some time to focus her intellect on the proper placing of mirthful youngsters, but at last, after singing “Like a little candle burning in the night,” all were in readiness to imbibe biblical learning.,How sweet and dear they all were! How peaceful it looked in there,—too peaceful, clean, for a dirty, fighting brute like himself. What could he do? He shivered in the cold, and the pain in his eyes increased. Would he fall? Would they find him, have Doctor Carter, learn the disgraceful truth? If the world had looked dark that afternoon, it was now Egyptian blackness.,“But the Lord hed his eye on Joner an’ put an orful wind on the sea.”,“I hope my breakfast won’t be quite so—”,As he reached for his cap a door opposite the one through which he had passed opened, and the grey head of the sexton appeared..