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B'lieve ye'd stan' there swappin' kisses 'till ye was knee sprung if I didn't tell ye t' quit. Hope came and put her arms about his neck, fondly, and kissed him good-night. 'Did Bill prance right up like a man? he asked, his hand upon her shoulder. 'Did very well, said she, smiling, 'for a man with a wooden leg. Uncle Eb sank into a chair, laughing heartily, and pounding his knee.
He held that in the course of time the national government would mould the inner circles of government to its way of thinking. "Excuse me, Elder; but that kind o' talk makes me sick. You are a good Christian man, I really think; but like most cullud people you are too jam full o' patience an' hope. I'll be blessed if I don't b'lieve Job was a cullud man.
To-day I hate London so that I could tear it into pieces like a rag." "You ought to start your 'bus on the search for the happy shore," said Mr. Russell. "You'd find the track of my tyres before you. I b'lieve you'd find the place." "Well, that would be the only perfect Service," said Jay. "But I don't believe the public would use the route much.
You can go back to 'Web' Saunders and 'Squealer' Wixon and 'Ily' Tucker and their tribe, if you want to, and be a town nuisance and a good-for-nuthin'. OR you can do this: You can go to school for a few years more and behave yourself and then, if I've got any influence with the Congressman from this district and I sort of b'lieve I have, second-handed, at any rate you can go to Annapolis and learn to be a Navy officer.
"Soldiers!" said Arv, as he raised his pike. "The British?" somebody asked. "Dunno," said he. "Ain' no Injuns, I don't b'lieve." A troop of cavalry was approaching at a gallop. They pulled up a few rods away and jammed into a big crescent of rearing, trampling horses. We could see they were American soldiers. We all lowered our guns. "Who are you?" one of them shouted.
I b'lieve it's waiting you are for herself to come forward to you. Do you think a young woman don't expect something more from a lover than jist for you to sit by her, and go on all as one as though she was one of your own sisthers? Av' once she gets out of this before the priest has made one of the two of you, mind, I tell you, it'll be all up with you.
"Hadn't we better pile some rocks on 'em, Shorty?" said he. I'm affeared if we don't they'll crawl off into the bush. "Guess we had," replied Shorty. "I b'lieve mine's started already!" Having made sure of them, they plunged into the water. Far up and down the stream were hundreds of men, swimming and splashing about. The soldiers availed themselves of every opportunity to enjoy this luxury.
"No," answered the Chippewa, after a moment's reflection, "no very safe for Yankee, or Yankee Injin. Don't t'ink my scalp very safe, if chief know'd I'm Yankee runner. Bess alway to keep scalp safe. Dem Pottawattamie I take care not to see. Know all about 'em, too. Know what he SAY know what he DO b'lieve I know what he T'INK."
"I ain' got much use fur dis yer gittin' en ungittin' er salvation," put in Uncle Ish from the table where he was eating a late dinner of Aunt Verbeny's providing. "Dar's too much monkeyin' mixed up wid it fur me. Hit's too much de work er yo' j'ints ter make me b'lieve hit's gwine ter salivate yo' soul.
She ain't well now and her money's about run out, I reckon. Say! did youse ever find them two greenies youse was lookin' for?" she suddenly asked Nan. "Oh, no! We're looking for them now," Nan replied. "Have you seen them, Inez?" "I dunno. I b'lieve my friend may know something about them." "You mean the girl you are with?" Nan asked. "Yep." "Who is she?" asked Bess.