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Like a whip-poor-will on a moonlight night: you hear it whistlin' on the next fence-rail, it doesn't seem a yard off; you step up to ketch it, and there's nothin' there; then you step back ag'in, and 'whip-poor-will! whip-poor-will! whistles louder 'n ever, and so on, the whole night, and some folks says they can throw their voices outside o' their bodies, but that's neither here nor there.
He told, me he would first try the grain of my skin, and see how that would agree with what he called my duty; and I must own, he got the best on't; I fit like a tiger ag'in you, rather than be flogged twice the same day. Flogging on a sore back is an awful argument!"
"That horrid bull-dog wouldn't let me come into the house! No matter what door I tried, there he was, just foamin' mad. I let him stay till nearly night, and then went and spoke kind to him; but it was no good. He'd got an awful spite ag'in me. I found something to eat down cellar, and I made a fire outside an' roasted some corn and potatoes. That night I slep' in the barn.
I played a joke on him took his shirt and put it on another fellow." "Might jes' as well kick an' Injun. What has he ag'in you?" "I don't know. Perhaps he did not like my talk to him," answered Jim. "I am a preacher, and have come west to teach the gospel to the Indians." "They're good Injuns now," said Wetzel, pointing to the prostrate figures. "How did you find us?" eagerly asked Joe.
All the same to me, Allen or Treadwell; I don't know either of 'em. It's a long while since I've been in Phildelphy, and never likely to go ag'in.
The three renegades continued to talk of the projected attack, but they passed on, and soon their words could be heard no longer. Then their figures became indistinct and were lost to sight. Shif'less Sol uttered a low cry, so full of bitterness that Henry was forced to laugh, knowing as he did its cause. "I never had sech a chance afore," said Shif'less Sol, "an' I'll never hev it ag'in."
George had slept late, and the hands of the marble clock marked but a few minutes of the hour of Gadgem's expected arrival, and not a moment could be lost. "Dat Gadgem man done come yere yisterday," he began, drawing out his master's chair with an extra flourish to hide his nervousness, "an' he say he's commin' ag'in dis mornin' at ten o'clock. Clar to goodness it's dat now!
I'd be willin' to chip in and help buy one; and, by gorry, we could make some movin' pitchers of our own and sell 'em, if we caji't do no better." He craned his neck and peered the length of the table at Luck. "Ain't no law ag'in it, is there?" he challenged. "No, there's no law against it." Luck closed his lips against further comment.
But she expected too much. Nothing so terrorizes a blushing girl as a blushing man. And then though they did sometimes digress Clotilde and her partner met to talk "business" in a purely literal sense. Aurora, after a time, had taken her money into her own keeping. "You mighd gid robb' ag'in, you know, 'Sieur Frowenfel'," she said.
If there has been cerebral disturbance, which has subsided temporarily, it will assist her to tide over the interim before its recurrence." "All right," said Uncle Beamish, "give it to me, and I'll be off. It's time I showed up ag'in." He did not stay up-stairs very long this time.
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