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Shall we set down on the shores of our Old World, and give up the hope and glory of the New? Shall we listen to the jeers and sneers of them that tell us that there hain't any such country as that we look for that it is impossible, that it is aginst all the laws of Nater that it don't exist, and never can, only in our crazed brains?
I felt that he would help save other bright young boys from the demon that sought their lives the bloody demon that stalks up and down our country wrapped in a shelterin' mantilly made of the Stars and Stripes oh, for shame! for shame that it is so! But I felt that General Grant would come up to the help of the Lord aginst the mighty, I felt it in my bones.
Bad luck to the oath she'd swear aginst him if they'd made a queen of her, but outdone the counsellors and lawyers, an' all the whole bobbery o' them, whin they wanted her to turn king's evidence. Now, it's not but I'd do anything to serve the purty Bodagh's daughter widout it; but you see, Dandy, if white-liver takes her off, I may stand a bad chance for the portion."
He would not witness the gladiatorial games, with their sickening senseless bloodshed; nor the plays at the theatre, with their improprieties. In these things he was an anomaly in his age, and felt about them as would any humane gentleman today. So it was easy for his enemies to work up popular feeling aginst him. At the funeral of Augustus he had to read the oration.
Co come here, now, Frank, till I me measure the small o' my leg ag aginst yours; or if if that makes you afeard, I'll measure the the ball of my leg aginst the ball of yours. There's a wrist, Frank; look at that? jist look at it." "I see it; it is a powerful wrist." "But feel it." "Tut, Art, sure I see it." "D n it, man, jist feel it feel the breadth of of that bone.
His sole living relative, an aunt who inhabited one of a row of ginger-brick Virginia-creeper-clad almshouses "over aginst 'Ighgyte Cimitery," sniffled a little when he called to say good-bye, bringing in a parting present of a half-pound of Liphook's Luscious Tea and a screw of snuff. "I shan't never see you no more, William." "Ow yes, you will, mother! Don't be such a silly!"
"Well, I'll go then," she assented, "if you will promise to look after me." "I'll see to that," responded Pete, delighted with his success. "I'll stand off any one, even the angel Gabriel himself, except one thing." "And what's that?" "It's love," solemnly answered the old man. "It's the cutest, wiriest thing a man kin run aginst.
I spoke up then; I am a good coffee maker, everybody admits, and I couldn't bear to hear Ernest White talked aginst, and I sez: "I never hearn of a workman drinkin' so much coffee that he wuz a danger to his family and the community, or so carried away with it that he spent his hull wages on it. Such talk is foolish and only meant to blind the eyes of justice and common sense.
And I looked real pleasant at her, but firm, and sez I, "Customs has to be gone aginst by true Reformers, and Prophets, Ulaley." Sez I, "Four hundred years ago it wuzn't the custom of the countries to discover new worlds. "But your illustrious countryman branched out and stemmed the tide of popular disfavor, and found a grand New Land.
She wuzn't a smooth spinner and there would be thick bunches in her yarn and thin streaks; she called 'em gouts and twits. She'd say, 'Yes, I know my yarn is full of gouts and twits, but when it's doubled most likely a gout will come aginst a twit and make it even." And I eppisoded to myself and to Josiah, "That is a good deal like life.
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