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For it's a jail offense to run away from a subpoena, my pa says so, and we are witnesses, and will have to stick." "Well, then," says Mitch, "if we do, and the whole month of August goes by, and school commences before we get off, we'll throw the school and go anyway. My mind is made up. Dern it, I never dreamed of gettin' tangled in the law for a little thing like seein' Doc Lyon in jail.
First thing I know you'll be wanting a pair of these here yaller shoes and a stove-pipe hat." "No," says I, "I ain't no dude, Hank, and you know it. But they is always things about a circus to spend money on besides jest the circus herself. They is the side show, fur instance, and they is the grand concert afterward. I calkelated I'd take 'em all in this year the hull dern thing, jest fur oncet."
"To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company." And he begun to wipe the corner of his eye with a rag. "Dern your skin, ain't the company good enough for you?" says the baldhead, pretty pert and uppish. "Yes, it IS good enough for me; it's as good as I deserve; for who fetched me so low when I was so high? I did myself.
Johnnie was near the end of another stanza of his sad song: "Oh, I'm goin' home Bull-whackin' for to spurn; I ain't got a nickel, And I don't give a dern. 'T is when I meet a pretty girl, You bet I will or try, I'll make her my little wife Root hog " He broke off embarrassed. "Did I wake you-all, ma'am, with my fool singin'? I'm right sorry if I did." "You didn't."
Remember?" "Oh, no, Massey! You know I do not drink intoxicants," said Hopewell confidently. "I know you are a dern fool, Hopewell and mebbe I'm one!" declared Mr. Cross Moore, suddenly rising. Then he bolted for the door and went out without bidding anybody good night. Massey looked after his brother committeeman with surprise. "Now!" he muttered, "what's got into him, I'd like for to be told?"
Sometimes I thought I was sure 'nough from Ohier, an' other times I could 'a swore I was from th' bitter end of Florida. It was th' most mixed up dern thing I ever see. An' these here hull woods is a reg'lar mess. It 'll be a miracle if we find our reg'ments t'-night. Pretty soon, though, we 'll meet a-plenty of guards an' provost-guards, an' one thing an' another.
"I've thought that all out while I've been taking care of you." She waited anxiously with parted lips. "Well, ma'am, you see it's like this. I'm plumb ashamed of myself through and through for the way I have acted toward you. I was a fool to listen to that dern lunatic. She told me lies about you." "Miss Blake did?" "Yes, ma'am." His face crimsoned under her look.
Henry has got sweat breaking out all over his face, and he tries to make fur the door, but he falls down onto a sofa. "This is murder," he says, weak-like. And he tries to get up again, but this time he falls to the floor in a dead faint. "It's a dern short fifteen minutes," I thinks to myself.
"Yas, an jestices' fees, an sheriff fees is baout ez bad ez lawyer's," said Israel Goodrich, whose countenance was beginning to glow from the influence of his potations. "I tell you wesh'd be a dern sight better off 'f'all the courts wuz stopped. Most on ye is young fellers, 'cept you Elnathan Hamlin, thar.
At the fall of the can, the man spun around suddenly, and, walking over to it, prodded it with the stick he carried. "Gosh dern!" he exclaimed; "funny how things happen." He stood in silence, looking down at the can. Then I dropped another close to him. He muttered something unintelligible.
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