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He'd think it wouldn't be right, for a p'liceman. Well, then, he shan't get a-hold!" A few minutes later, when her patron had passed on, Apple Kate looked around and missed the children, but supposed they had followed the officer.
"My haid has been mighty crazy; and that little grandmother of yours yondeh, she but I can't just quite catch a-hold of these things" he passed a hand over his forehead "so many or else one right along well, it's all foolishness!" he concluded, with something almost savage in his tone. And after she had gone from the cabin he lay very still, looking at the miniature on the wall.
"You did, you Pomp!" cried his mother. "Oh! I'll lick ye fur dat, when I git a-hold of ye!" "Did you, really?" cried Harry. "Yes, I did," shouted the undaunted Pomp. "I sloshed out dar an' back agin." "But the water's higher now," said Harry. "No, 'tain't," said the woman. "Tain't riz much dis mornin'. Done all de risin' las' night. Dat tree's jist on de edge of de creek bank.
All right now; I 've got a-hold of 'em. That you, Arthur; how de do?" "How do you do, Mr. Barlow?" responded Arthur. "Hitch yer hosses ter that tree thar. I 'll send Joe out ter tend to 'em. Ye 'll find the girls round the side in a hammock. Here 's Pert a-comin' now."
We took a little turn and had a sight of the Virginian quite active among the ponds. "Hush! I'm getting some thoughts," continued Scipio. "He wasn't sorry enough. Don't interrupt me." "I'm not," said I. "No. But I'd 'most caught a-hold." And Scipio muttered to himself again, "He wasn't sorry enough." Presently he swore loud and brilliantly. "Tell yu'!" he cried.
As the days passed, it became plain to Ruth, as it did to everyone else on the ranch Chavis, Pickett, and Masten included that Vickers had not talked extravagantly in recommending Randerson. Uncle Jepson declared that "he took right a-hold," and Aunt Martha beamed proudly upon him whenever he came within range of her vision. There was no hitch; he did his work smoothly.
"Which yo're the most nervous gent I ever did see. The hotel ain't close enough for anybody to hear a word, and there's only hosses in the corral. Get a-hold of yoreself. Don't be so skittish." "I ain't skittish. I'm sensible. I know " Lanpher broke off abruptly. "What do you know?" "What yo're due to find out." "Now lookit here, Mr.
It was here, separated by the wide river from all familiar scenes, that her search must go on. A customer came to the stand and occupied Apple Kate's attention, at the same time the wharf policeman walked away to send his message concerning little Bonny. That moment was Glory's opportunity, and she improved it, thinking with good reason: "If onct he gets a-hold on us he won't leave us go.
This of course he had not known and never would know, but the words had caused her many smiles during the night. "You didn't show it much," he observed. "You must have took right a-hold. Some women would have gone clean off the handle. They wouldn't have been able to do anything." Her lips twitched, but she still gave her attention to her sewing, treating his talk with a mild interest.
"In some ways, though, I'm sorta glad the damned mine was blew up. 'Firebrand' would have sure got a-hold of her some day, an' then we'd be clawin' at the bowels of the earth instid of galivantin' around on our cayuses like gentlemen. I reckon things is all for the best."
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