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These heah Yankee commissaries bin workin' out new tricks all th' time. They takes a lot of stuff like turnips, carrots, beets, all such truck, an' press it into cakes like this. 'Course you have to be careful. I heard tell as how one blue belly, he chawed the stuff dry an' then drank water; it bloated him up like a cow in green cane. Poor fella, he jus' natchelly suffered from bein' so greedy.
"Say, Shorty," said Si, "'taint very wicked to smoke, is it?" "Guess not!" was the reply. "That's the way it 'pears to me, 'n' I've been kinder thinkin' lately that I'd learn how. The soljers all seem to enjoy their smokin' so much. You know. Shorty, that I was always a reel good boy never smoked, nor chawed terbacker, nor cussed, nor done nothin' that was out o' the straight an' narrer way.
You know, the way you reach down, and pat 'm on the head, and say, 'Nice doggie, nice doggie, old fellow, even if it is a street cur, with a chawed ear, and no tail. They growl and show their teeth, but they like it. A woman Lordy! there comes the brakeman. Let's beat it. Ain't we the nervy old hens!"
"All the child what I got, chawed off of a horse!" "Wicked old horse!" ejaculated Teacher. "Crazy old Teacher!" snorted Mrs. Mogilewsky. "Fool old Teacher! I sends my little boy on the school so he should the English write und talk und the numbers learn so he comes through the years maybe American man, und she learns him foolishness over dogs und cats und horses. Crazy, crazy, crazy!"
He always lets the other man begin, and therefore he ain't never done time." "Come, now," argued the Lieutenant, "if it were the other man who invariably shot first, Stark would have been killed long ago." "I don't care what WOULD have happened, it 'AIN'T happened, and he's got notches on his gun till it looks like a cub bear had chawed it.
The President and the whole Republican party," he shouted, "are a lot of hogs who've chawed so much gold their digestion won't work and their brains are torpid; and there's nothing to do but to kick them into this war the whole greedy, white-livered, Trust-owned, thieving lot of them, including that great immaculate Joss up at the White House with his manners. Damn his manners!
But you let Abe tell it, Cap'n Am'zon Silt is the greatest navigator an' has the rip-snortin'est adventoors of airy deep-bottom sailor that ever chawed salt hoss." "Did you ever see him?" Lawford asked. "See who?" "Cap'n Amazon?" "No. I didn't never see him. But I've heard Cap'n Abe talk about him standin' off an' on as ye might say for twenty year and more." "Odd you never met him, isn't it?"
Tom had not forgotten the appalling stories told by Jim Travers on his arrival from the exhibition. "I heered he chawed up Sam Harper, Jack Habersham, Bill Dunham, and a whole lot of folks that was at the circus." The laughter of the two horsemen was hearty. "Those youngsters are alive and well.
Again he tried to stab his enemy, but the knife did not penetrate the hide, and he discovered that in the first thrust the knife had struck a rib and the point was turned up. The bear clawed and chawed, and Jim felt around for the wound he had made first. When he found it he thrust the knife in and worked it around in a very disquieting way.
We used to have a calf that et apples and just chawed up dishrags like nothing, and if you stay here you'll see lots of funerals won't he, Sis! Did you ever see a house afire? I have! Once me and Jim Terry " But Sellers began to speak now, and the storm ceased.
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