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I us' tu gether de turkey eggs an' guinea eggs an' sell 'em. I gits ten cents duzen fo' de eggs. Marse and Missus wuz English an' de count money like dis fo' pence, ha' penny. Whut I do with my money? Chile I saved it to buy myself a nankeen dress." "Yes mam we always had plenty to eat. What'd I like bes' to eat, waffl's, honey and stuffed sausage, but I spise possum and coon.
"One small hair Broom sutable to the Bellows. "One Duzen of large hard-mettal Pewter Plates new fashion, weighing about fourteen pounds. "One Duzen hard-mettal Pewter Porringers. "Four Duzen of Small glass Salt Cellars of white glass; Smooth not wrought, and without a foot. "A Duzen of good Ivory-hafted Knives and Forks."
I never ad the good fortn to pass down Pipping's Buildings without seeing a haf a duzen of 'em on the threshole of the extablishment, giving the street an oppertunity of testing the odar of the Misses Mordeky's prime Avannas.
A description of yew trees and their location may be had from Sudworth's "Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope," to be obtained from the Government Printing Office at Washington. My own staves I cut near Branscomb, Mendocino County, and at Grizzly Creek on the Van Duzen River, Humboldt County, California.
Thus we journey for nearly ten miles in the darkness, going up out of the valley, on to the foothills, through Windy Gap, past Sheep Corral, over the divide, heading toward the Little Van Duzen River. All the while the dogs amble along, sniffing here and there at obscure scents, now loitering to investigate a moment, now standing and looking off into the dark.
And so much shall you give, or off goes yours. King Henry VI. I never saw a man more astounded, or better disposed to fly into a passion, than was the case with Mr. Moses Oloff Van Duzen Marble, when he was told that the Dawn was to be sent into England, for adjudication.
"A Duzen of good Black Walnut Chairs fine Cane with a Couch. "One bell-metal Skillet of two Quarts, one ditto one Quart. "One good large Warming Pan bottom and cover fit for an Iron handle. "Four pair of strong Iron Dogs with Brass heads about 5 or 6 shillings a pair. "A strong Brass Mortar That will hold about a Quart with a Pestle.
I think you can guess what's in the wind NOW! I bot myself a dressing-case, a box of Ody colong, a few duzen lawn sherts and neckcloths, and other things which were necessary for a genlmn in my rank. Silk stockings was provided by the rules of the house. And I completed the bisniss by writing the follying ginteel letter to my late master:
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