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David's misdemeanour was like food to a hungry instinct. 'I went to prayer-meetin, the lad said thickly. It seemed to him as though the words came all in the wrong order. Hannah bent forward and gave a sudden cry. 'Why, yo bin fightin! Yo're all ower blood! Yo bin fightin, and I'll bet a thousand pund yo draw'd in Louie too. And sperrits! Why, yo smell o' sperrits! Yo're jes reekin wi 'em!
"Boss, you see dat smart Ellick?" "Yes, what's the matter with him?" "He's one er deze yer scurshun niggers from Charlstun. I seed you a-stannin' over agin de cornder yander, an' ef dat nigger'd a draw'd his monty kyards on me, I wuz a gwineter holler fer you. Would you er come, boss?" "Why, certainly, Uncle Remus." "Dat's w'at I 'low'd. Little more'n he'd a bin aboard er de wrong waggin.
Den de Crawfishes, w'at dey wuz lef' un um, swarmed tergedder en draw'd up anudder peramble wid sum mo' wharfo'es; but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane. De udder creeturs wuz too busy wid der fussin' fer ter 'spon' unto de Crawfishes.
Not on yer life! He may look an' act like a pilgrim but, take it from me, he's a desperate character if he got Purdy after he draw'd. It's worser than if it was Tex. He might of took pity on us, knowin' about the fambly. But a stranger, an' one that kin git a man like Jack Purdy! O-o-o-o, my stummick! Bat, I'm 'fraid I'm a-passin' away!
Take two large fleshy Capons, not too fat; when you have draw'd and trussed them, lay them upon a Chafing-dish of Charcoal to singe them, turning them on all sides, till the hair and down be clean singed off.
"Plenty others don't like him, too," growled Purdy. "I'm glad he's draw'd that roman nose, 'cause he's the out-buckin'est outlaw that ever grow'd hair him an' that pinto, yonder, that's hangin' back on the rope." The Texan drew up directly in front of the lumber pile and ignoring Purdy entirely, raised his Stetson to the girl.
They've been and washed up the tin plates and pannikins and spoons as clean as clean can be; and the one I thought favoured Burgess so much, mum, he's been and draw'd water from the well, all that we shall want to-day; and they're very civil, well-spoken chaps, if you please, mum!"
Their eyes met. "Broken?" he said interrogatively, with a faint return of his old deliberate manner, glancing at his helpless arm. "Deedy no, cunnle! Snake bite," responded the negress. "Snake bite!" repeated Courtland with languid interest, "what snake?" "Moccasin o' copperhead if you doun know yo'se'f which," she replied. "But it's all right now, honey! De pizen's draw'd out and clean gone.
The next time he tackles it he'll shave, an' the next time he muds up a catch-basin he'll mud it right. Day before yesterday he was about as useless a lookin' piece of bric-a-brac as ever draw'd breath an' look at him now! There ain't been any real change. The man was there all the time, only he was so well disguised that no one ever know'd it himself least of all.
"Boy," he demanded, "did you kick in my front door?" "I'm the Government's agent," David replied. "I've got to have the mail. I'm David Kinemon too; and I wouldn't step round to your back door, Hatburn not if there was a boiling of you!" "You'll learn you this," one of the others broke in: "it will be the sweetest breath you ever draw'd when you get out that back door!"
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