United States or Iceland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I was married in Arkansas. My folks heard about Arkansas bein' such a rich country, so they come to Arkansas. "I farmed a long time and then I done housework. "Deal a times I don't know what to think of this younger generation. I sits down sometimes and tries to study 'em out, but I fails. "Well, what the old folks goin' to get out of this?"
Why, the Old Man himself used to remark I guess it ain't news to some here about me bein' on the inside with most of the leadin' financial lights of the country he used to remark, 'Tubbs has it in him to bull the market on a Black Friday. Ladies, I ain't one that's inclined to boast, but I jest want to warn you not to be too astonished when H. H. makes acquaintance with that tombstone, which I'm willin' to lay he does yet."
"What a quiet, cosy place!" said Nigel, as he sprung on the beach and looked admiringly round. "Yes, an' not easy to find if you don't knows 'im. We will leabe de boat here, no danger ob bein' tooked away an' den go up to de cave." "Is it far?" asked Nigel. "A good bit near de top ob de mountain," answered the negro, who looked at his companion somewhat uneasily. "Why, what's the matter, Moses?"
"Ay, so I was, and hard enough work I had to convince them that I had nothin' to do with it myself, but they saw that I couldn't jump a stone wall eight foot high to save my life, much less break into a house, and they got no further evidence to convict me, so they let me off; but it'll go hard with you, nephy, for Major Stewart described the men, and one o' them was a big strong feller, the description bein' as like you as two peas, only their faces was blackened, and the lantern threw the light all one way, so he didn't see them well.
All you've got to do, bein' the sort you are, is to sit quiet an' teach me. But I got to be a lady, if it costs me my shift."
Ain't one o' ther signs o' the zodiac up in ther heavens named after ther goat Capricornus is ther feller ter what I refer an' them heathen chaps what wuz half man an' half goat? Didn't they come pretty near bein' ther whole thing?" "But about the Pecos?" inquired Dick, who was not partial to preaching, but wanted to get at the heart of the story. "Oh. yes.
"When the young lady caught sight of me she fainted. Bein' but a young man, and not used to ladies, I will not deny but that I were a bit scared, and that my mind were not open to the sensiblest considerations.
But, my dears, we cann't let annybody else have 'm. Shorrt of his bein' drowned or killed, we must intrigue to keep the wretch to ourselves." "Oh, dear!" said Adela impatiently. "Well, and I didn't say to myself, ye little jealous thing!" retorted Mrs. Chump. "Indeed, ma'am, you are welcome to him." "And indeed, miss, I don't want 'm.
"'Doby's disgusted with Willyum's herdin' 'round with Billy that a- way, bein' sociable an' visitin' of him, an' he lays for Willyum an' wallops him. When Billy learns of it which he does from Willyum himse'f when that infant p'ints in for a visit the day after he's as wild as a mountain lion.
Among the rest, the first to come in was little Toal Finnigan, who, in addition to his other virtues, possessed a hardness of head by which we mean a capacity for bearing drink that no liquor, or no quantity of liquor, could overcome. "Well," said Toal, "sure it's very reasonable that you should be out of ordher; after bein' seven years from it, it doesn't come so natural to you as it would do.
Word Of The Day