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"We don't need your money, Ma'am, we can support ourselves in other ways; my girls can braid straw, and bind shoes, but they a'n't going to be slaves to anybody."
Ye never see a woman't didn't get married for dooty yet; there a'n't nary one on 'em darst to say they wanted ter." "Oh! Mister Long!" exclaimed Sally. "Well, Sally, it's nigh about so; you han't lived a hunderd year. Some o' these days you'll get to know yer dooty." Sally turned red, and the three young men sniggered.
It seemed to Bud, as he walked home mortified, disgraced, disappointed, hopeless, that all the world had gone down in a whirlpool of despair. "Might a knowed it," he said to himself. "Of course, a smart gal like Martha a'n't agoin' to take a big, blunderin' fool that can't spell in two syllables. What's the use of tryin'? A Flat Cricker Is a Flat Cricker.
There's been a talk about our havin' a celebration in the Parnassian Grove, and I think I could work in what your folks don't want and make myself whole by chargin' a small sum for tickets. Broken meats, of course, a'n't of the same valoo as fresh provisions; so I think you might be willin' to trade reasonable." Mr. Peckham paused and rested on his proposal.
So that's over, and I a'n't sorry; it's as bad as reading the 'Diary of a Physician. The boy will be all right now, and the lesson won't hurt him, though it has been a rough one. But no more metaphysics for him, Ned Blount! And, boys, let this be a warning to you. He's too brittle a toy to be handled in your rough fashion." "You needn't tell us that, Thorne," said Mac, drawing a long breath.
Sure, a'n't I the man that patronizes your Melodies? He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron. When I said that Mr.
At the same time I presented my case filled with choice Cabañas, smuggled. My limited means oblige me to employ these judicious economies. Mr. Mellasys took a cigar, lighted, whiffed, looked at me, whiffed again, "Sir," says he, "dashed if that a'n't the best cigar I've smoked sence I quit Bayou La Farouche!"
"My husband has already spoken" "Wat! t' ole Ransom? Wy, he a'n't got nothin' but a weelbarry." And Caleb, returning at the same moment with a somewhat perplexed air, corroborated this statement by saying, "This man has no carriage, but will get us one in a short time." "But this boy," retorted Mysie, "says he has a carriage, and will carry us to Gay Head for two dollars."
A soldier likes his own comfort, although very apt to destroy that of other folks; and it a'n't very likely he would go and make a good report of an island that had neither women nor rum, and where he was no better than a prisoner.
"Where is he?" asked Sally in another whisper. "He's to the tavern there in Lexin'ton. There a'n't nobody along with him, cause his father's gone to Bostin to see 'bout not gettin' scomfishkated, or arter a protection, or sumthin." "And his mother is dead," said Sally, slowly. "Long! I must go to Lexington to-night, on the pillion, and you must go with me.
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