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She won't marry till I give the word an' I ain't agoin' to give the word." He snapped his lantern jaws, and grinned in Nal's face. The selfishness which rated its sordid interest paramount to any consideration for others appalled the young man. How could he stem this tide of avarice, this torrent of egoism? "So love don't go?" said Nal shortly. "No, sonny, love don't go leastways not with me."
"Come," added Gray, "you an' me'll jest put out together fer the Ingin kedentry ef you say so, and fetch up in Kansas under some fancy names, and take a hand in the wras'le that's agoin' on thar. Nobody'll ever track you. I've got a Yankton friend as'll help us through." "My friends, I'm ever so thankful to you " "Blame take yer thanks! Come along," broke in the Superior Being.
But imagine goin' along a road where you could look down thousands of feet into running water, and right up on the other side of you mountains thousands of feet high. And you between, poor specks of clay with only a breath of steam to keep you agoin' and prevent your dashin' down into that enormous abyss.
Jehosaphat, though, wouldn' he jess go fer the Cap'n. I guess he'd give him ten lashes ev'ry day fer a month an make him set in the stocks with pepper 'n salt rubbed in his back 'tween times, an then hev him hung ter wind up with, an he wouldn' be half sassified then." "Warn't that the gol-darndest though, baout that Edwards gal agoin tew ass Perez to git the mewsic stopped?
Ye ain't agoin' to persuade me a hen kin jest quit layin' when she's a mind ter, waitin' tell ye pass her the compliment o' holdin' out yer hand fer the aig!" "There's lots o' hens that pervarted they'll turn round an' eat their own aigs!" suggested the woodsman, spitting thoughtfully through the open window.
Rossitur knows much about it?" inquired Earl with a curious turn of feature, between sly and contemptuous. "The less he has to do with that heap of corn the bigger it'll be that's my idee, I ain't agoin' to ask him nothin' you may ask him what you like to ask him but I don't think he'll tell you much that'll make you and me wiser in the matter o' farmin'." "But now that he is at home, Mr.
Keeps on, I'll have to gouge out a couple of Joshuays an' turn the old Ford into a boat but Casey'll keep agoin'!" Until inky dark it rained like the deluge. Casey remained perched in his one-man ark and tried hard to enjoy himself and his hard-won freedom.
Well, Lord, how that are used to frighten me; it made my hair stand right up an eend, like a cat's back when she is wrathy; it made me drop it as quick as wink like a tin night cap put on a dipt candle agoin to bed, it put the fun right out.
"Well, well," said Mr Chisholm, who was a jocular sort of young fellow and never hard on a man, besides which he knew Draper's crusty way, "tell us what you know, then." "Very good, sir," replied our old shellback of a coxswain. "Then, I knows, sir, the monsoon's on the shift, and we're agoin' to have a blow from the nor'ard afore dark." "What do you advise our doing, coxen?"
I already got a ball what Admiral Farragut gimme. An' I ain't agoin' to be no sissy neither. Lina an' Frances plays dolls, me an' Jimmy " he stopped in sudden confusion. "Lina and Frances and James!" exclaimed his aunt. "What do you know about them, William?" The child's face flushed. "I seen 'em this mornin'," he acknowledged.
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