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Bison, yo' bwead is deztyned to be the bwead; and I tell you how 'tis with me, I juz gladly eat yo' bwead eve'y time I kin git it! Mr. Bison, in fact you don't know me ve'y intimitly, but you will oblige me ve'y much indeed to baw me five dollahs till tomaw save me fum d'awing a check!" The German thrust his hand slowly and deeply into his pocket.
"Here, George, is the package of food for you to carry on your long trip. And I want you to take this, also. It's only five dollars, but it may help out on the way to Chattanooga," said Will, slipping the bill into the old fellow's black hand. George looked at it as though he could not believe his eyes. "Five dollahs! Gorry! dat am mo' dan I done see dis t'ree yeahs, suh! Five dollahs!
"'Eighty-three, suh I saw her do it, says a man with a white mustache. "'Eighty-three, thank you, Colonel. You have a fine memory, says the auctioneer. 'I saw her do it, too. Now, gentlemen, he says, 'what am I offered for this grand old mare? She's the dam of six winners three of 'em stake hosses. Kindly start the bidding. "'Twenty dollahs! says the ole nigger who has hold of the mare.
'Co'se it is, says I. Then he 'lowed he'd give me two dollahs ef I said he was de man dat killed de b'ah." Blount stared reflectively at a knot-hole in the side of the barn. "Jim," said he, at length, "give me the two dollars. I'll take care of that." So saying, he swung on his heel and turned away. The day was now far advanced, and the great white house had grown silent.
"Why, Aunt Lucy, she's raised more chickens than any hen we've got." "Thass all right, Miss Ma'y Ellen, thass all right, so she have, but she made twict as much trouble as any hen we got, too. We kin git two dollahs fer her cooked, an' seems like long's she's erlive she boun' fer ter keep me chasin' 'roun' after her.
"Hocked it?" queried Giant. "Yes, pawned it fo' six dollahs." "Where?" "At Levy's store in Williamsport." "Where is the ticket?" asked Shep. "Heah in my pocket. I'se a poah man, dat's wot I am," went on Jeff Thompson. "I didn't hab no wuk an' I was des'prit. So I tuk dat watch. I meant to git it back some day." "No doubt," said Snap, sarcastically.
Th' young lady's got good Amehican dollahs, don' care wha' she's been. She allus smiles when she ask me to do anythin', an' I wouldn' care if she nevah tipped me, 's long as she smiles thataway." "Servants with them, you say?" "Yas, suh; man an' woman, nex' section t'other side the ole folks. Cain't say mor'n fifteen words in Amehican.
Richling listened to him with new pleasure and rising esteem. "You make me envy you," he exclaimed, honestly. "Well, I s'pose you may say so, Mistoo Itchlin, faw I nevva nuss a sing-le one w'at din paid me ten dollahs a night. Of co'se!
Some Yankee missiona'y teachers come to him an' offe'd to make it a college an' spend ten thousand dollahs on it if the State would on'y go on givin' it hafe o' the three counties' annual high-school funds." The Englishman frowned perplexedly and Proudfit put in "That is, three thousand a year from our three counties' share of the scrip on public lands granted Dixie by the Federal Government."
Heah it is. E.W. Hubbard is the chief backah, and he says this is wuth ten thousand dollahs. He says every woman in Ame'ica will be wearing one of ouah hat-pins this time next yeah." He laid the certificate on the table as he spoke, and for a moment Maxwell sat staring at it, speechless. He knew Hubbard a rich, shrewd financier, and no leader of forlorn-hopes.
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