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His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times the mair's the pity he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
Will you meow?" "Yes and you meow back, if you get a chance. Last time, you kep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat! and so I hove a brick through his window but don't you tell." "I won't. I couldn't meow that night, becuz auntie was watching me, but I'll meow this time. Say what's that?" "Nothing but a tick." "Where'd you get him?"
Blame it all! just as we'd got guns, and a cave, and all just fixed to rob, here this dern foolishness has got to come up and spile it all!" Tom saw his opportunity "Lookyhere, Huck, being rich ain't going to keep me back from turning robber." "No! Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom?" "Just as dead earnest as I'm sitting here.
Ausfluge nach dern Schnee-Berg in Unter-OEsterreich. Vienna, 1800. 8vo. Botany, mineralogy, and what the Germans call economy, and technology, are principally attended to in this work. Wanderrungen und Spazierfahrten in die gegenden um Wien. Vienna, 1802-4. 5 vols. 8vo.
They was so pleased with my bringing Bud home the night he was shot they would of jest natcherally give me half their farm if I had of ast them fur it. They wanted me to stay there they didn't say fur how long, and I guess they didn't give a dern. But I was in a sweat to ketch up with Doctor Kirby agin. I made purty good time, and in a couple of days I was in Atlanta.
The rider, a sallow-faced man clad in rough corduroy, patched and colorless, leaned over and held out his hand. "Dern yer o' skin," he said solemnly, but with a twinkle in his eyes, "ye 're sure got the luck of it. Ain't seen ye afore fer two years." "That 's right, Sam; down on the Cowskin, wasn't it? Who 's over there?"
When he laid it down it was bulging out with sweet potatoes, and a glance showed him that these were all gone. "Dern my buttons!" exclaimed Si, as he forgot his weariness, and his eyes flashed fire. "If I am a Corporal, I kin jest mash the feller that stole my 'taters, I don't keer if he's ten foot high. Won't somebody show 'im to me? There won't be 'nuff of 'im left to hold a fun'ral over?"
"'Very good, very good, very good, indeed. You see, boys, he knows a clue when he sees it, when it wouldn't mean a dern thing to anybody else. 'Stockings, madam? Shoes? "'Yes, your Honor both. "'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco? "'Yarn, your Honor. And kip. "'Um kip. This complicates the matter. However, let it go we shall manage. Religion? "'Catholic, your Honor. "'Very good.
I shaved the hull blame thing soon as ever they let me loose, an' then played loony, till thar ain't no Injun 'long the shore as 'd tech me fer all the wampum in the Illini country. 'T ain't the fust time I saved my scalp by some sech dern trick. I tell ye, it 's easy 'nough ter beat Injuns if ye only know how. By snakes! I 'm sacred, I am, specially teched by the Great Spirit.
But I've got it all figgered out, boys. He was simply workin' me. He always led the conversation round to Alix Crown, and then, like a dern' fool, I'd let him pump me dry. Why, there's nothing he don't know about that girl, and all through me. Now he's got in with her, just as he wanted to all along, and what does he do but tie a can to me and give me a swift kick.
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