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But ef they calkerlate on yer takin' root here, they're treein' the wrong possum. You're a-goin' home along o' me to-morrow." That afternoon he left the hospital, and several hours later was seen walking up Monument Street with his arm full of bundles. "I believe he's been buying clothes to take Sally home in!" said one of the nurses, who was watching him from an upper window.
Securing our animals, we followed the trail on foot for some distance, when Jerry called my attention to a number of fresh tracks in the earth. "Antelope tracks," said I. "No they ain't neither; you must guess again. Them's havilina tracks." "What are they?" inquired I. "Them's hogs," replied Jerry; "wild Mexican hogs, and the darndest, ugliest critters on the plains, ef you git 'em riled.
"Air you a-goin' t' scribble that there three thou-san' on a piece o' paper?" inquired Uncle Billy, sitting bolt upright. "Ef you air a-figgerin' on that, Mr. Kamp, jis' you save yore time. I give a man four dollars fer one o' them check things oncet, an' I owe myself them four dollars yit." Mr.
He had raised his hands and was closing his eyes in prayer, when a man rose in the centre of the church. "Brer Jordan," he began, laughing with embarrassment. "Ef some o' de brers ur sisters'll change a dime fur me " Jordan opened his eyes and his hands fell. "Bless de Lord!" he exclaimed, with feeling. "Bless de Lord, one man done claired 'isse'f! Glory, I say!
Younker; "I only jest wish you had to change places with me and Ben here for about five minutes; and ef I didn't make your old daubed, nasty, villainous, unyarthly looking faces grin to another tune, I hope I may never be blessed with liberty agin in creation, as long as I live on the face o' this univarsal yarth!"
"I guess there wouldn't be any trouble about that," returned the deacon, whose meanness ran in a different channel from his wife's, and who took less note of what was eaten at his table. "Ef you think you'd like to engage, and we could make a bargain, you might begin next week." "Jest so," said Ben.
"This isn't a bit of business ye can do in a hurry ef ye expect to git any profit out of the transaction. I can see only one of the pigs, but the one I can see is not over-burdened with fat, and it's agin reason to expect that he will be long in gittin' out when he starts, or wait for ye to scratch him when he breaks cover."
Ef he'll fix up dis matter wid Lugena, I hain't no mo' complaint, an' I'se mighty sorry 'bout dat, kase Marse Desmit hab allus been mighty kin' ter me all 'cept dis time an' once afo'."
'I've hed enuff of Sleepy Hollow, an' bein' ordered round by an old man with his head in the moon. It's "Lemuel, do this," an' before I git started it's "Lemuel, do the t'other thing." You kin stand it ef you're a mind ter; I won't. 'But, Lemuel! gasped Pauline, 'what will Stephen say? 'I don't care what he says, said the boy roughly. 'Stephen ain't my boss.
Her glance shot suspicion at him as though she scented banter in the strange, foreign phrases; then she said: "Ef you mean you wanter git to Potuck, whar the railroad starts, you've got to walk three miles back to the Potuck Road; then it's three miles west to Potuck taown." "An' what lies on ahead, whar you're goin'?" he asked. "Why, nothin'," she returned with a child's surprised simplicity.
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