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"Now, Pax," he said, laying down the tool with which he had been working, and looking earnestly into his little friend's face, "something has been simmering in my mind for a considerable time past." "You'd better let it out then, Phil, for fear it should bu'st you," suggested Pax. "Come, now, stop chaffing for a little and listen, because I want your help," said Phil.
Yo' see, it happen so: Marse Chan he wuz a-speakin' down at de Deep Creek Tavern, an' he kind o' got de bes' of ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin. All de white folks laughed an' hoorawed, an' ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin my Lawd! I t'ought he'd 'a' bu'st, he wuz so mad. Well, when it come to his time to speak, he jes' light into Marse Chan. He call 'im a traitor, an' a ab'litionis', an' I don' know what all.
"You're a brick, Blazes," said he, "and this is your birthday, an' I wish you luck an' long life, my boy. You'll do me credit yet, if you go on as you've begun. Now, I'll go right away back an' tell mother. Won't she be fit to bu'st?" "But what about your message to the relation in the City?" inquired Frank.
I's bin wakin' a good while, larfin fit to bu'st my sides. De purfesser's been agoin' on like a mad renoceros for more 'n an hour. He's arter suthin, which he can't ketch. Listen! You hear 'im goin' round an' round on his tip-toes. Dere goes anoder chair. I only hope he won't smash de lamp an' set de house a-fire." "Veil, veil; I've missed him zee tence time. Nevair mind.
"When the votes was in the hat, the tellers retired to the amusement room to count up. It took a long time. I see the Conservatives and Progressives nudgin' each other and winkin' back and forth. Five minutes, then ten, then fifteen. "And all of a sudden the biggest row bu'st loose in that amusement room that ever you heard. Rattlety bang! Biff! Smash!
But I'm liable to tell you now, or else bu'st. See that decanter on the table?" "I was just looking at it," said the person in sequins. "You don't know what a turn I've had, or you'd offer me a little something." "You shall have a little something in a minute," rejoined Maguire. "But if you take a little anything out of that decanter, you'll collapse like our friend upon the floor."
"Aw, the blamed idiot," Old Heck grunted, then glancing over toward Parker's bed: " Did you notice whether Parker got him one, too, or not?" Before the question was answered Parker and Skinny appeared at the bunk-house door. "What's the matter?" Chuck said, still holding the bundle in his hand, " ain't it too early for lovers to bu'st up for the night?
They used to tell us children a story how Satan, he flew over the earth a-sowing it with rocks and stones, and as he was passing over our county a hole bu'st through his leather apron and he lost his whole load right slam there. I could 'a' p'inted out the very spot where the heft on it fell. Ten Stone meadow, so-called. Ten million stone!
"Yep," answered Gwendolyn; "I could just die hearing Angela and Celie Polatta singing that what-d'ye-call-it, that always makes a body bu'st out crying?" "You mean 'Punchinello. Yep, that's a corker; but, Lord! the one what makes me have all kinds of funny cold feelings run up my back is that 'Ave Maria. Therese Nicora taught them what she says she learned in the old country.
'The ridgment is proud of you, says he. 'And I'm proud of the ridgment, say I. 'A damned good answer too! says he to Lord Hill, and they both bu'st out a-laughin'. But what be you a-peepin' out o' the window for?" "Oh, uncle, here's a regiment of soldiers coming down the street with the band playing in front of them." "A ridgment, eh? Where be my glasses?
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