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"I drove him that race myself, pulled down the five hundred dollar purse, refused all their fine offers for Ben Butler, an' me an' him's been missionaryin' round here ever since." "Great hoss great!" said Bud, his eyes sparkling, "allers told you so! Think I'll get out and hug him." This he did while the Bishop sat smiling. But in the embrace Ben Butler planted a fore foot on Bud's great toe.
Fust place they're called the error-fairies 'case they're all servants to a creetur named Error. She's a cheat and a humbug, allers pertendin' somethin' or other, and she makes it her business to fight a great and good fairy named Love. Now Love oh, chillen, my pore tongue can't tell you of the beauty and goodness o' the fairy Love!
Nobody but a loafer will disturb any kind of a meetin. And if you'll notice it, them as are up to this sort of thing, allers come to a bad end.
"Now, John Salters," exclaimed Aunt Linda, "ain't you 'shamed ob yourself? Allers tryin' to poke fun at yer pore wife. Never mine; wait till I'se gone, an' you'll miss me." "Ef I war single," said Salters, "I could git a putty young gal, but it wouldn't be so easy wid you." "Why not?" said Iola, smiling. "'Cause young men don't want ole hens, an' ole men want young pullets," was Salter's reply.
"He's been at his tricks again," said Joe. "I thought so." "And d d dirty tricks they are, too. The swab can't do nothing fair and square and above board. He allers cruises about in a nasty, sly, piratical way." "What is it? Tell us at once." "Yes, sir, I will. Why, you see, the fact is, he has been a-sounding me about trying if the crew is satisfied with your honour."
"Hens is sillier than most things," said Ben, when she confided her difficulties to him; "what they've done once they'll do allers, it's no good fightin' with 'em." He consented, however, to nail some boards over the worst holes in the barn, and by degrees, after infinite patience, Lilac succeeded in making some of the hens desert their old haunts and use their new abode. All this was encouraging.
Allers load your gun. Who is that sharp, Mister Peets, who says, "Be shore you're right, then go ahead"? He once ranches some'ers down on the Glorieta. But what he oughter say is: "Be shore your gun's loaded, then go ahead." "'That's whatever! says Dan Boggs, he'pin' himse'f an' startin' the bottle; 'an' if he has a lick of sense, that's what he would say.
"I understand, Moses. That speech means that you are suffering from the same complaint. Well get out the biscuit." "Jus' de way ob de wurld," muttered the negro with a bland smile. "If a poor man obsarves an feels for de sorrows ob anoder, he allers gits credit for t'inkin' ob his-self. Neber mind, I's used to it!"
Even Dinah, who was busy about her household duties, and who heard the remark, paused only a moment to turn up her nose and say scornfully: "If dey've done forgot how we allers sarve de likes ob dem, jes' let 'em try it agin. Dat's all." She was a tall, muscular negress, whom an ordinary man might hesitate to make angry.
I seed yer in a vision, when I war prayin' to de Lord to open de free door fur me an' my chillen. Ye war an angel wid white shiny wings. Bress de Lord! 'T war Him dat sent yer. An' now, Missy Flory, de Lord bress yer! Ye war allers good to poor Chloe, down dar in de prison-house. Let me gib yer a kiss, little Missy."
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