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Reaction after the perils of the morning, crab and port combined to make a man of him. "Eh, 'tis a bonny wee drappie of port whatever, Mistress Plaistow," he said. "And I dinna ken that ye're far wrang in jaloosing that Mistress Mapp might have a wee bitty word to say aboot it a', 'gin she had the mind." "She was wrong about the portmanteau," said Diva. "Confessed she was wrong." "Hoots!
Course I know a few words, like Spricken Sie Dutch and Bitty, sir, that Rabin at the Souvenir Company he's a German Jew, I guess learnt me.... But, say, isn't Kipling great! Gee! when I read Kim I can imagine I'm hiking along one of those roads in India just like I was there you know, all those magicians and so on.... Readin's wonderful, ain't it!" "Um. Yes." "I bet you read an awful lot."
They were holy men; they lived a holy life; he had not been good enough for their company. "But I feel like a sailor home from sea," he said; "tell me what has happened." "Births, marriages, and deaths? I suppose ye're like the lave of the men, and think nothing else matters to a woman. But come now, more chicken? No? A wee bitty? Aye, but ye're sair altered, laddie! Weel, where can a body begin?"
"And John Cable's sulkin' around with his nose out o' jint," interjected "Doc." "Feisty," proceeded the interpreter, "feisty means when a feller's allers wigglin' about, wantin' ever'body to see him, like a kid when the preacher comes. You know a feist is one o' them little bitty dogs that ginerally runs on three legs and pretends a whole lot." All of us were indignant at the setter of the trap.
Den yo'all goes down to de secon' big pile o' willows. Behin' dem is a li'l bitty bayo' goin' back. Yo'all goes up dat 'til yo'all comes to a fur rack. Den dat Jeems got de way marked on de trees." With that he turned and ran as if all the terrors of the night were on his trail. There was nothing for Val to do but to follow his directions.
'Ow, he has a heap o' notions o' 's ain! answered Kirsty, who did not care, especially in his presence, to talk about her brother save to those who loved him. When Francis turned again, he saw Steenie a good way up the hill. 'Where does he want to take me, Kirsty? Is it far? he asked. 'Ay, it's a gey bitty; it's nearhan' at the tap o' the Horn, a wee ayont it.
Even Lil Abner and Snuffy Smith battled the vegetation while no one but Jiggs remained absolutely impervious. The Greengrass Blues was heard on every radio and came from every adolescent's phonograph until it was succeeded by Itty Bitty Seed Made Awfoo Nasty Weed. Perhaps the most notable feature of this period was a preoccupation with permanency.
"Not him," he answered, "I've cheated him bonny, he hasna a notion wha I am. Corp, would you like a good laugh?" "That I would." "Weel, then, I'll tell you wha he thinks I am. Do you ken a little house yont the road a bitty irae Monypenny?" "I ken no sic house," said Corp, "except Aaron's." "Aaron's the man as bides in it," Tommy continued hastily, "at least I think that's the name.
"There ain't nary bitty sense in it." More interesting are substitutions of one sound for another. In mountain dialect all vowels may be interchanged with others. So any other vowel may serve in place of e: sarve, chist, upsot, tumble. The word coil is variously pronounced quile, querl or quorl. They never drop h, nor substitute anything for it.
"Most like," he continued at last, "I'll die ... but I've got a little bitty, slim chanst ter come through." "I hopes so, Cal." "An' ef I does, I calls on God in heaven ter witness thet afore ther moon fulls ergin ... I'm a-goin' ter kill somebody." "Who, Cal?" The white face on the pillow turned a little and the eyes opened.
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