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"In that case, then, let them go and buy lands for themselves; if they do not wish to pay rent, why did they agree to pay rent?" "May be dey changes deir minds. Vhat is goot to-day doosn't always seem goot to-morrow." "That may be true; but we have no right to make others suffer for our own fickleness.

"English!" exclaimed Frank; "Good Lord! why don't you ask him why he can't speak Greek? English! Lord! Lord! Lord! Tom Draw and English!" "I'll jist tell Archer what he warnts to know, and then see you, my dear little critter, if I doosn't English you some!" replied the old man, waxing wroth.

"Stand here," he whispered, "close in here, jest behind this here crag and look out hereaways toward the village. If he comes down this runway, kill him, but mind you doosn't show a hair out of this corner; for Archer, he'll stand next, and if so be he crosses from the swamp hole hereaways, you'll chance to get a bullet. Be still, now, as a mouse, and tie your horse here in the cove! Now, lads"

"My name is Hildegardis Graham!" said Hilda in her most icy manner, what Madge Everton used to call her Empress-of-Russia-in-the-ice-palace-with-the-mercury-sixty-degrees-below-zero manner. "Huldy Gardies!" repeated Farmer Hartley. "Well, that's a comical name now! Sounds like Hurdy-gurdys, doosn't it? Where did Mis' Graham pick up a name like that, I wonder?

You have always been so good and kind to me, and I shall miss you, too, and Lena, and lots of people. And and how is Cousin Scraper, please, Mr. Bill Hen? Does he miss me, do you think?" "He's all right!" replied Mr. Bill Hen, gruffly. "Doosn't seem none the worse for his tantrum. No, if you ask me, I can't say as he seems to miss ye, not anyways to hurt him, that is.

"Wal," said he, at last, slowly and thoughtfully, "it'll take a man with a head as long as a hoss to answer that thar. It mought hold on, an then agin it moughtn't." "At any rate, I suppose we can drift." "O, yes; an of the wind doosn't come round too strong, we can git nigh down pooty close to St. John by mornin." "We'll run down with the tide." "Percisely."

Kit, who in despatching his bread and meat had been swallowing two-thirds of his knife at every mouthful with the coolness of a juggler, stopped short in his operations on being thus appealed to, and bawled 'Nobody isn't such a fool as to say he doosn't, after which he incapacitated himself for further conversation by taking a most prodigious sandwich at one bite.

It is scarcely necessary to say all these considerations glanced through our minds so swiftly as to cause no very awkward or suspicious pause in the discourse. "B'rhaps dey doosn't like to bay rent?" put in my uncle, with a roughness of manner that was in accordance with the roughness of the sentiment. "Beoples might radder haf deir landts for nuttin', dan bay rents for dem."

Your eyes and your expression are exactly the same." Bob raised his eyes and surveyed Imogen with a critical air. "Fine cow!" he said at last. "D'no's I mind 'f she doosn't." "Isn't she a fine cow?" cried little Star, patting the meek and graceful head of her favourite. "I don't believe there's another such cow in the world. I know there isn't!

Rossitur's down to Queechy." "Mr. Rossitur's!" said Mrs. Evelyn; "does he send them here?" "He doos not," said Philetus; "he doosn't keep to hum for a long spell." "Who does send them then?" said Constance. "Who doos? It's Miss Fliddy Ringgan." "Mamma!" exclaimed Constance looking up. "What does she have to do with it?" said Mrs. Evelyn.