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Is you really gone an' died an' lef' your poor ole Aunt Dinah behind as lubbed you like de apple of her eye! What did you do it for, honey? You know your ole Aunt Dinah wasn't a-goin' to look down on you for nothin' as is happened of," whined the old woman, stooping and weeping over the corpse. Then she accidentally touched the sleeping babe, and started up in dismay, crying: "What dis?
In a few moments, and while he was still talking to Big Jerry, Rose joined them on the stoop. A quick glance at her flowerlike face told Donald that her childish but none the less real grief was banished, for a smile of victory curved her lips. "Ef ye haint a-goin' ter the city right away, doctor," said his host, "we would be downright pleased ter hev ye come up ergin.
But if you ain't a-goin' to tell me about the runaway I'll just leave my eggs and step over and see Miss Puss Jenkins. Miss Puss will talk to anybody, anywhere, day or night. All you got to do is to ask your first question and take your seat. If 'n you ain't got nothin' to say " "How can I say it if you don't let a word get in noway, nohow?" Mr. Blick was huffy.
On October 2, 1912, eleven heads of greater bird of paradise, with plumes attached, were offered for sale within one hundred feet of the headquarters of the Fourth National Conservation Congress. The prices ranged from $35 to $47.50; and while we looked, two ladies came up, one of whom pointed to a bird-of-paradise corpse and said: "There! I want one o' them, an' I'm a-goin' to have it, too!"
They are always in love or in liquor, or else in a row; they are the merriest shavers I ever seed. Judge Beler I dare say you have heerd tell of him; he's a funny feller he put a notice over his factory gate at Lowell, 'no cigars or Irishmen admitted within these walls; for, said he, 'The one will set a flame a-goin' among my cottons, and t'other among my gals.
What kind be they?" "English pippins, ma'am." "Dew tell! be you a-goin to hev one, Sally?" "No, Aunt Poll! I don't want any thin' English 'round!" The three young men grinned and chuckled. George Tucker turned red. "Hooray for you, Sally!" sung out old Snapps. "You're a three-decker, ef ever there was 'un!"
He has never been baptized. If he died now, he wouldn't go to Heaven!" "Aw! shut up. He air a-goin' in faster'n any of them. Don't you worry yer head over that. God ain't that kind of a bloke that He wouldn't take in a sick brat what ain't never done no harm." Tess had risen, and was standing over the child, Teola having placed him back in the bed. "But you don't understand, Tess dear!
Mose uncovered a sandy head, face and beard, and remarked: "I don't want to put on airs in this here crowd, but ef nobody else ken say a word to the Lord about Billy Bent, I'm a-goin' to do it myself. It's a bizness I've never bin in, but ther's nothin' like tryin'. This meetin' 'll cum to order to wunst." "Hats off in church, gentlemen!" commanded Pentecost.
"Why, it's two days before Christmas yet," said Polly, laughing; "how they'll look hanging there so long." "I don't care," said Joel, giving a last thump to the nail; "we're a-goin' to be ready. Oh, dear! I wish 'twas to-night!" "Can't Seraphina hang up her stocking?" asked Phronsie, coming up to Polly's side; "and Baby, too?"
"It's a-goin' to be some scaldin' to-day, Sylvy." The girl laughed. "Then when I carry the milk down cellar I shall stay there. It's so funny to have the cellar under the parlor as it is here." "'Tis out o' the common, but the ground was so shoal at the kitchen end it hed to be dug that way. Judge Trent hed that cellar made. I visited him once to Seaton. Did he ever tell ye?" "No."
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