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In course, I ain't the party to be thinking ill of any man not Dan, which is plain and English, though some as is scholars say it should be Dan'el; but what I do know, I know you won't be contradictin' that, will you?" I told him to get on with it; but he was woefully deliberate, cutting tobacco to chew, and hitching himself up before he was under weigh again.
And he spoke of my havin' egged 'em on to steal watermelons frum Mister Bell's watermelon patch out here three miles frum town, on the Marshallville gravel road. You-all heared whut he jest now said about that. "I don't mean no offense and I beg his pardon fur contradictin' him right out before everybody here in the big courthouse; but, mister, you're wrong.
That's what I say, an' I reckon I ought to know, bein' turned ninety." "All the same thar's some folks that ain't streaked at all, but a solid lump of silliness like Judy Hatch," returned his son. This was too much for the patience of the patriarchial spirit, and old Adam began to shake as though he were suddenly smitten with palsy. "What do you mean by contradictin' me, suh?
The first one that noticed it was Ginger Dick. Bill 'ad just lit 'is pipe, and as he threw the match down he ses: "I don't like these 'ere safety matches," he ses. "Don't you, Bill?" ses Ginger. "I do, rather." "Oh, you do, do you?" ses Bill, turning on 'im like lightning; "well, take that for contradictin'," he ses, an' he gave Ginger a smack that nearly knocked his 'ead off.
"If you include me on that cannibal's visitin' list, and go to contradictin' me agin, I'll " "Mac," interrupted Mr. Gibney angrily, "control yourself. It's agin the rules to have rag-chewin' and backbitin' on the Maggie II. Remember our motto: 'All for one and one for all' " "Here comes that sneakin' bushy-headed murderer back to the vessel," interrupted McGuffey.
They have nobody to blame but themselves." "'Deed they is 'scuse me for contradictin you but there's them as is to blame a heap. Them Abolitioners, sir, is the cause of it. They wouldn't let the poor devils rest until they 'duced them to go off. They 'lowed, they would get 'em off, and no danger of their being took agin.
"'And then, says Father McGrath, sharp, 'I suppose you went on another spree, and spent the rest of the money. "'I did not, sor axin' your pardon for contradictin' your riverence. I signed the pledge, and I'll keep it, with Maggie to help me.
"To a man in the Force," said Rat-it-all pensively, "an expression like that, mixed up with photographs in the 'Daily Mirror, strikes HOME. A man in the Force, as I'll put it, is in some ways unlike other men." He paused to let this sink in. "Take your time," said Nicky-Nan. "But I'm not contradictin' 'ee." "If they're a species, he's a specie a man set apart, like a parson.
"No, it isn't, Nigel, my son," interrupted the captain, firmly. "Mr. Moor is second mate. I say so, an' if I, the skipper and owner o' this brig, don't know it, I'd like to know who does! Now, look here, lad. You've always had a bad habit of underratin' yourself an' contradictin' your father.
Well, what we have we'll share, anyway. There's no use in contradictin' a bunch of hungry steers. Keep a watch on the phone, Pearlie dear, and find out which way they turn at Beckers'. We'll open up an oat stack for them, anyway so if they come rampin' in in the middle of the night there'll be something ready."
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