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"I ain't feared o' no cutes and I ain't feared of no Injun," solemnly answered Elmer, "jist so dem rattlers gives me de go-by. Dat's all I ast." Buck's big wagon had arrived and was backed up to the car and now, by the light of a lantern hanging above the door, the work of loading began. With their improved gas bag the boys had figured on a record flight without renewing the gas supply.
"No 'm, she didn't say what for. She jist said: 'Ast yer ma won't she please an' step over here a minute. I wouldn't put anythin' on. 'T ain't cold. You needn't stay long, only till... I guess she's in some of a hurry." "Well, if Harriet Waldo thinks 'at I haven't anythin' better to do 'n trot around after her at her beck an'.... All right, I'll come." The twins got their slippers hid, and Mrs.
Brewster, placing a chair on the vine-shaded porch. "Ah come t' ast you-all say, you, Sally, stop pickin' them flowers! Mis' Brewster'll lick yuh!" The visitor interrupted herself to shout at her little girl who proved to be a naughty one. "Ez Ah was sayin', Ah come t' leave an invite fer th' hop at Bear Forks.
"Well, I'll tell you, Sam," said Franklin kindly, "maybe we'd better let it run along a little while as it is. You know, girls have odd notions of their own. Perhaps a girl would rather have a man speak for himself about that sort of thing. And then, the asking sometimes is the easiest part of it." "Then you'll ast Nory for me?" "Well, if I could say a word, just a hint, you know "
Then resumed his learned queries. "et quid hodie lugdunenses loquuntur vossius vester nihilne novi scripsit? nihil certe, quod doleo, typis recenter editit." "Valet quidem vossius, rex benevole." replied Nigel, "ast senex veneratissimus annum agit, ni fallor, septuagesimum." "Virum, mehercle, vix tam grandaevum crediderim," replied the monarch.
Den I gin 'm ten cents apiece, en dey 'uz mighty well satisfied, en wisht some mo' raf's 'ud come along en make 'm rich agin. Dey's mighty good to me, dese niggers is, en whatever I wants 'm to do fur me I doan' have to ast 'm twice, honey. Dat Jack's a good nigger, en pooty smart." "Yes, he is. He ain't ever told me you was here; told me to come, and he'd show me a lot of water-moccasins.
But I didn't know nothin' 'bout courtin'. Carline she wuz better qualified though, an' she made me ast Old Miss ef I couldn't hab her fer my wife. We didn't need no Bible nor preacher, nor sech foolishness in dem days. But when Old Miss wuz willin' we jus' dress up an' walk ober de place an' tell all de niggers we wuz married. Umph, umph! But I wuz proud dat day!
"Their maidservant and their manservant, dad?" says Bonnie Bell. "You heard me!" "What's their maidservant or their manservant got to do with it, dad?" ast she. She was setting on the lounge now, with the fine-tooth comb in her hand. "He'd better not have nothing to do with it," said Old Man Wright. "Curly, you're foreman see to it that not one of them crosses the line."
"These here's the questions," answered the doctor, tracing them with his thick, dirty forefinger; "and these here's the blank spaces fur to write the answers into. Now you can write better 'n me, Teacher; and if you'll just take and write in the answers fur me, why, I'll do a favor fur you some time if ever you ast it off of me.
'Clean 'em an' press 'em QUICK? I says. 'I couldn' clean 'em by Resurreckshum, let alone pressin' 'em! No'm! Well, he had his blue britches, too, but they's so ripped an' tore an' kind o' shredded away in one place, the cook she jes' hollered when he spread 'em out, an' he didn' even ast me could I mend 'em.
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