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"Her eyes and her soft ways tell you that, Banjo, as plain as any words." "She's done ten times as much as that big-backed buffalo of a preacher she's married to ever done for his own people, or ever will. He's clim above 'em with his educated ways; the Injun's ironed out of that man. You can't reach down and help anybody up, mom, if you go along through this here world on stilts."
An' my daddy clim' up on the fence an' says, 'Whut's the matter now? An' a man tuck a fife outen his mouth an' shouts, 'Mexico has trod on us an' we need soldiers. An' my daddy turns, he does, an' says to my brother, 'Come on Bob. They went, Jedge, an' Bob he didn't come back. Am I a makin' it too long?" "No, Mr. Starbuck, proceed." "Do it sound like I'm a beggin'?"
Beany got sent out of sunday school for raising time. after he went out he clim up to the window and made up feerful faces at us. mister Erl the suprintendunt was jest going to make a prayer and see us laffin and see Beany before Beany cood gump down and he grabed his cane and run out of the sunday school and chased Beany down to Gim Elersons. Beany cant come agen. i wish i was Beany.
He attired himself in these tattered ends of raiment. Had he not been so angry he must have roared at sight of his comical self when the dressing was completed. “Now, yo’ll do, Ah reckons.” With that, the mulatto guide of the night before threw down one end of an inch rope. “Ah reckon yo’s sailor ernuff to clim’ dat. Come right erlong, ’less yo’ wants de dawgs ter jump down dar.”
Brer B'ar, he 'low dat he can hear de bees a zoonin'. Dey stan' 'roun' en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee: "'You do de clim'in', Brer B'ar, en I'll do de rushin' 'roun'; you clim' up ter de hole, en I'll take dis yer pine pole en shove de honey up whar you kin git 'er, sezee.
"Bes' one ev' I hear, he clim up an' down same as a circus man. One n'em big 'vivals outen whens we livin' on a fahm, preachuh clim big pole right in a middle o' the church, what was to hol' roof up.
"Then Harvey says; 'I'll run up to headquarters, and find out about the weather; and clim' up the main-mast as limber as a squirrel, and when he came back, thar' was Tommy's hat stickin' way up top o' the mast; so Tommy, he promised to pay him them two was always foolin' together, but good-natered enough."
"That dog's been givin' me a chase, I can tell you! He clawed and scratched so in the shed that I put him in the wood-house; and he went and clim' up on that carpenter's bench, and pitched out that little winder at the top, and fell on to the milk-pan shelf and scattered every last one of 'em, and then upsot all my cans of termatter plants. But I couldn't find him, high nor low.
We clim' up on the fence, jest like my granddaddy an' my daddy had done, an' I cried out, 'Whut's the trouble now? The drums stopped, an' one of the men raised his flag up high an' shouted, 'The country is a splittin' up an' the Union needs soldiers. An' I says, 'Come on, boys. I can look back now, Jedge, an' see that little woman a standin' under a tree a wavin' us a good-bye with an old flag.
"No, 't wa'n't where they made the river road. Then they turned straight to one side 't was thick woods then, you understand an' went up a little ways towards Horn o' the Moon. But they concluded that wouldn't suit 'em, 't was so barren-like; an' they wheeled round, took what's now the old turnpike, an' clim' right up Tiverton Hill, through Tiverton Street that now is.
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