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'Pray, which is the lady, she inquired, 'in whom you are so much interested? 'There! groaned Mrs Gamp. 'There she goes! A-crossin' the little wooden bridge at this minute. She's a-slippin' on a bit of orangepeel! tightly clutching her umbrella. 'What a turn it give me.
Once when he was loaded he tried to ride back th' same way he came, an' th' first thing he knowed he was three miles farther from his supper an' a-slippin' down that valley like he wanted to go somewhere. He swum out at Potter's Dam an' it took him a day to walk back.
"We heard tell o' Dick Lynch a-slippin' away to the south'ard jist this minute from little Patsy Burke. Drunk as a bo's'un he was, wid his old swilin'-gun on his shoulder an' the divil's own flare in the eyes o' him. So we hauled out too, skipper, intendin' to catch him afore he come up wid yerself if the saints would give us the luck."
An' it's for her sake that I want to make the deal! I've told her an' told her that there's no dum sense in raisin' corn on thousand-dollar land; but it's no use, so fur; an' here's the only chanst I'll ever hev, mebbe, a-slippin' by. She ortn't to live her life out on a farm, educated as she is. W'y, did you ever hear how she's been educated?"
When a man gets so old as I be, 'is innards be like glass, Peter, like glass an' apt to fly all to pieces if 'e goes a-slippin' an' a-slidin' downstairs, like me." "Are you in pain?" I asked, clasping his shrivelled hand. "Jest a twinge, now an' then, Peter but Lord! that bean't nothin' to a man the likes o' me Peter "
"If you stood there in that black, chokin' atmosphere, reekin' with all pestilental and moral death, and see the one you loved best a-slippin' away from you borne out of your sight, borne away into the onknown, on them dead waves of poisinous, deathly air I guess you wouldn't talk about reducin' the Surplus Population." I had been real eloquent, and I knew it, for I felt deeply what I said.
She uttered her first preliminary groan. Cousin Gussie, being an unsophisticated stranger, was startled, as Mr. Bangs had been at the former seance, but Primmie's whisper reassured him. "It's all right," whispered Primmie. "She ain't sick nor nothin'. She's just a-slippin' off." The banker did not understand. "Slipping off?" he repeated. "Off what?" "Off into sperit land.
It's rather troublesome, for sure, when there's none o' th' sleeves; they keep for ever a-slippin' up man's arm; but I could put up wi' that easy if there was nought more. It's true I don't want to pull 'em down while even comes." "Oh, Father, let me sew you some on!" cried Bertha. "So thou shall," said Dan. "But I've a bit o' news for thee, lass. Susanna's to be wed." "With whom, Uncle?"
Ef my eye ain't 'ceive me, dish yer's Brer Rabbit, en Brer Tarrypin, en ole Unk' Tommy Mud-Turkle, sez Brer B'ar, sezee. "'De same, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en yer we is 'joyin' de day dat passes des lak dey wa'n't no hard times. "'Well, well, well! sez ole Brer B'ar, sezee, 'a-slippin' en a-slidin' en makin' free! En w'at de matter wid Brer Rabbit dat he ain't j'inin' in? sezee.
Tom, she's a-gwine ter be a sight when she's grown with them eyes and har! An' ter think of her a-slippin' off from Mornin an' makin' up her little mind to follow ye. I've never had a young 'un to try it that early in all I've raised." "Lordy!" said Mr.
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