is meeting at the camp (meeting au camp) he comes to bet regularly for

the curé Walker, which he judged to be the best predicator of the

neighborhood (prédicateur des environs) and which he was in effect, and a

brave man. He would encounter a bug of wood in the road, whom he will

bet upon the time which he shall take to go where she would go--and if

you him have take at the word, he will follow the bug as far as Mexique,

without himself caring to go so far; neither of the time which he there

lost. One time the woman of the cure Walker is very sick during long

time, it seemed that one not her saved not; but one morning the cure

arrives, and Smiley him demanded how she goes, and he said that she is

well better, grace to the infinite misery (lui demande comment elle va,

et il dit qu'elle est bien mieux, grâce a l'infinie miséricorde) so much

better that with the benediction of the Providence she herself of it

would pull out (elle s'en tirerait); and behold that without there

thinking Smiley responds: "Well, I gage two-and-half that she will die

all of same."

This Smiley had an animal which the boys called the nag of the quarter of

hour, but solely for pleasantry, you comprehend, because, well

understand, she was more fast as that! [Now why that exclamation?--M. T.]

And it was custom of to gain of the silver with this beast,

notwithstanding she was poussive, cornarde, always taken of asthma, of

colics or of consumption, or something of approaching. One him would

give two or three hundred yards at the departure, then one him passed

without pain; but never at the last she not fail of herself échauffer,

of herself exasperate, and she arrives herself écartant, se defendant,

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