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"I'll tell you what it is, Mopsey," said Ben, after he had whispered with Johnny and Dickey, and they had nodded their heads as if agreeing with what he said, "we'll give you our share of the theatre 'cause, of course, we can't spend any time actin', now that we've got the store, an' you an' Nelly can own it alone.
"Des look at Wash, des look at Washington Mayo! Actin' lak he own er co'te house an' er stage line! O my Lawd! wish I wuz er gwine! An dat dar Tullius from Three Oaks he gwine march right behin' de captain, an' Marse Hairston Breckinridge's boy he gwine march right behin' him! Dar de big drum ag'in!" In Dixie land I'll take my stand, To live and die in Dixie! Look away! Look away!
After he had gone she spent the half-hour previous to Mr. Hammond's arrival in alternate fits of rage and despair. "So Kenelm's been actin' unlikely, has he?" queried Caleb. "Well, if he was my brother he'd soon come to time quick, or be put to bed in a hospital. That's what would happen to HIM." Miss Parker looked as if the hospital picture was more appealing than dreadful.
"Don't know how it is, an' I can't tell wot it is, but so it is," remarked Buzzby to Grim, a week after the first night of the theatricals, "that that 'ere actin' has done us all a sight o' good. Here we are as merry as crickets every one, although we're short of fresh meat, and symptoms o' scurvy are beginnin' to show on some of us."
Are they all as purty as you? she sez, and Jimmy sez, 'Purtier if anything, and she sez, 'I'll be steppin' over to-day to see yer ma, and Jim ran home and told them all, and they all got brushed and combed and actin' good, and in she comes, laving her carriage at the dure, and her in a long pink velvet cape draggin' behind her on the flure, and wide white fer all around it, her silk skirts creakin' like a bag of cabbage and the eyes of her just dancin' out of her head, and she says, 'These are fine purty childer ye have here, Mrs.
"Well, what is it now, Uncle Simon?" the master asked, heeding the servant's embarrassment, "I know you've come up to ask or tell me something. Have any of your converts been backsliding, or has Buck been misbehaving again?" "No, suh, de converts all seem to be stan'in' strong in de faif, and Buck, he actin' right good now." "Doesn't Lize bring your meals regular, and cook them good?"
He wasn't JEALOUS of that consarned Percy?" Gertrude did not answer. "It couldn't be," continued Daniel. "He's got more sense than that. Besides, you told him, when you and he were alone together, why you was actin' so, didn't you? Or did he know it beforehand? I presume likely he did. Your mother and I seem to have been the only animals left outside the show tent." Again there was no answer.
D'ye mean to tell me you're not actin'?" "I wish I was!" cried poor Sam, glancing upward with tearful eyes and clasping his hands. "Come now. You've joked enough. Go on and do your part," said the puzzled manager. "But I tell you I'm not joking. I couldn't sing just now if you was to give me ten thousand pounds!"
Clark wanted someone to help in the general store about then, and I took the job at six dollars a week. Inside of a year I was actin' postmistress, had full charge of the drygoods side, did all the grocery buyin', and was agent for a horse rake and mower concern. Six months later, when Mr.
Glen had no watch, but he went early enough to be quite sure of being there by ten o'clock. Then he waited and waited. He was about to give it up as a hoax, when a man slipped quietly out of the woods and advanced toward him. Glen fell into a position of defense as he saw that it was his old enemy, Jervice. "Now, don't go actin' up," begged Mr. Jervice.
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