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"Don't, Jonas; you talk so cur'us, like as ef you was kinder sorter wicked." "That's jest what I am, my dear, but Abigail Anderson's wicked without the kinder sorter. She cusses when she's a-prayin'. She cusses that poar gal right in the Lord's face. Good by, I must go. Smells so all-fired like brimstone about here."
That means suthin' 'fore mornin'." He lifted his hand to it. "I wouldn't trust a sky like that not without reefin' down good." He drew a breath. "Cur'us how it makes you feel right there!" he said. "I'd a'most forgot." He glanced at the moving crowd a little hostilely and drew another deep breath. "The atmosphere is fine," said the girl.
I tell ye, this last year there's a feelin' in my throat and in my breast hyer," he laid his hand pathetically over his heart, "a cur'us, gone, flutterin' feelin'. And when Sammy r'ars up and threatens he'll take Huldy and the chaps you know," he finished with a gesture of the hand and a glance of unspeakable pain, "when he does that 'ar way, or something comes at me sudden like that that we may lose 'em, hit seems like right hyer," and his hand went again to his heart, "that I can't bear it that hit 'll take my life."
Their eyes came near meeting, and she turned quite away. "Ever seed a body out'n his head?" The girl's eyes rounded with a start of surprise. "Well, it's plumb cur'us. Isom's been that way lately. Isom's sick, ye know. Uncle Gabe's got the rheumatiz, 'n' Isom's mighty fond o' Uncle Gabe, 'n' the boy pestered me till I come down to he'p him.
"Cur'us how water sticks to deerskin." "How much further do we go, Henry?" asked Paul. "Far enough to be safe," replied Henry. "I think two or three miles more will put us out of their range. The walking won't be bad, and it will help to dry our leggings." "Wish I had one o' their hosses to ride on," said Shif'less Sol. "'Twould jest suit me, a lazy man.
Dar, it done struck five bells dat mean ten-thirty, unerstan' an' you's gotter git half-a-dozen ob yo' bob-tailed nags ready fo' de ridin' lessons yo' tells me yo' gives de yo'ng ladies at six bells, dat's eleben o'clock, Sattidy mawnin's. I's pintedly cur'us fer ter see dem lessons, I is.
"Here I be," said the scout and trapper. "What happened to you?" "S'arched an' shoved me into a dark hole in the wall. Ye know, Jack, with you an' me, it allus 'pears to be workin'." "What?" "Good luck. Cur'us thing the papers was on you 'stid of me ayes, sir, 'twas. Did ye hand 'em over safe?" "Last night I put 'em in Franklin's hands." "Hunkidory! I'm ready fer to go hum." "Not yet I hope.
Out of the heaven of his life that star had vanished forever, and nothing was left him but a soiled photograph, and a tear-stained letter, worn with frequent folding and unfolding. "Wimmen nater is cur'us nater, that I'll allow. But a feller kind o' hankers arter 'em, fur all that. They're a mighty handy thing to hev about a house."
Dat wuz de las' ob dat ar spook, Unc' Sampson say, en he say spook's cur'us dat away. Wen dey sats'fy dere grudge dey lets up en dey doan foller de man dey down on kaze dey on'y po'r in de place whar de man 'lowed ter kill um."
We'll tell her when she comes in. She always likes to hear cur'us things. What else does an earl do besides being created?" "A great many of them have helped to govern England. Some of them have been brave men and have fought in great battles in the old days." "I should like to do that myself," said Cedric. "My papa was a soldier, and he was a very brave man as brave as George Washington.
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