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It is more interesting than a romance. But tell me, how did you acquire so many negroes? You surely didn't bring them with you?" "Lawd, no! Why, we wuz pore ez Job's turkey, an' hardly owned a shut to our backs, let 'lone niggahs. Aftah the country wuz more cl'ared up, folks moved in frum Virginny an' even Pennsylvany, an' brought slaves with 'em.
But at the back the trees wuz all cl'ared off, an' ther wuz a gairden patch next to the cabin, an' then a cawnfiel'. The only door wuz in front, an' thar wuz no windah either in the back only two little loopholes. One uv the puncheons in the floor hed been left loose a purpus, an' they took it up without mekin' any noise.
When a forest is cleared there is a spongy humus on the ground surface that is extremely rich, but this washes away in a single season. The soil beneath is good, but thin on the hillsides, and its soluble, fertile ingredients soon leach out and vanish. As one of my neighbors put it: "Thar, I've cl'ared me a patch and grubbed hit out now I can raise me two or three severe craps!" "Then what?"
Dar come up yere one dem yaller barbers, an' he pick er thing at her dat looked sorter like er banjo, an' she cl'ared out wid him." "That was sad." "Yas'm. An' den dar wuz Tildy. She wuz monst'us fine. Jest about de color o' er new saddle. I lubbed dat lady." "What became of her?" "Who, Tildy?
Prince Hal feels Hotspur out, an' sees that by the time the deal goes to the turn, he'll be shore loser. A plan comes into his mind. Prince Hal suddenly backs away, an' keeps on backin' ontil he's cl'ared himse'f from his foe by eighty feet. Hotspur stands watchin'; it's a new wrinkle in bull fights to him.
'Ha! ha! and behind his sleeve, too. Such things are damnable!" Silvy's dulcet tones ran over that hard word with the mildest and softest of accents. "And they bring wine," she continued. "Silvy cl'ared off the table one night. She heard 'em sing, and they says to him, 'What about pretty Beck? and he says 'We must have a little fun, you know, ha! ha! and then, 'ha! ha! behind his sleeve.
"The whole racket's that onnacheral I never does quit wonderin' about it; but now this old science sharp expounds his theory of 'moral epidemics, it gets cl'ared up in my mind, an' I reckons, as he says, it's shorely one of them waves. "Tell the story? Thar's nothin' much to said yarn, only the onpreecedented leeniency wherewith we winds it up.
"What WOULD you hev done?" said Uncle Billy, after an hysterical collapse. Uncle Jim's face grew grave again. "I'd hev I'd hev cl'ared out! Out er 'Frisco! out er Californy! out er Ameriky! I couldn't have stud it! Don't think I would hev begrudged ye yer luck! No man would have been gladder than me."
"When it's cl'ared," interrupted Johnson, and Simpson looked alarmed. "It is partially cleared," continued Alwyn, "and our plan is to sell off small twenty-acre farms " "You can't do nothing on twenty acres " began Johnson, but Tylor laid his huge hand right over his mouth and said briefly: "Shut up!"
"Ring! ring! went David's ax, ez ef hit war a trumpet, shoutin' ter the whole world: 'Heah I am. Come over heah! "'Ye kin burn our house ef yer that big a villain, I said; 'but I can't tell ye no different. "'Kunnel, thet's him a-choppin' over thar, said Jake Johnson. 'I know he's cl'ared some new ground fur terbacker on thet air hill-side.
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