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"There's no flummery there that's my meaning, spoke out plain. You two ha' put shame on Will, and cast him into prison, and I want you to take him out again, and lift the shameful lie off him. That's all it ain't much, and it 'ull be the better for your souls ef you have any souls that you should do it." Granger burst into a loud laugh. "You have the cheek!" he said.
"So things bein' thus and so, it seems to me that ef the suggestion was made to your daughter, Mrs.
She ascended the stairs, two steps at a time, and opened the door of her son's room. If Abner had been in bed his mother would have pulled him out, for her arm was vigorous, but the bed was empty. "Well, I vum!" she ejaculated, in surprise. "Ef that boy isn't up already. That's a new wrinkle. And the little boy gone, too. What can it mean?" It occurred to Mrs.
"Faith, ye oogly yaller-faced raskil," he cried, putting up his fists in the scientific way we had learnt from long practice on board with the gloves under our gymnasium instructor, "Oi'll knock ye into the middle of nixt Soonday wake, ef ye don't kape a civil toongue in yer hid an' put yer owld dhrumsticks behint ye!"
"Tree fallen across the road," said Ned, the expressman, briefly. "I don't see no tree," responded the passenger, leaning out of the window towards the obscurity ahead. "Now, that's onfortnit!" said Yuba Bill grimly; "but ef any gentleman will only lend him an opery glass, mebbe he can see round the curve and over the other side o' the hill where it is.
I've made up my mind to send one of my boys along with 'im, ef ye've no objection." Of course Captain Stevens had no objection. Which of his boys was he going to send? "I kinder thought az how I'd send Sukey." Sukey was a nickname given a tall, lazy youth named Richard Winners.
"John, honey," said the little stout woman, "yere's the queerest story. Two mites, all alone, with only a dog belonging to them; father dead, mother dead, and they asks ef that's Jesus playing the organ, and they wants a night's lodging, and I have the kindest face. Hark to the rogues! and will I give it to 'em? What say you, John?" "What say you, Molly? Have you room for 'em, old girl?"
"There, there now, Doctor, I won't, doggone me ef I will," Nichol protested anxiously. Mr. Kemble met them at the door, and the captain recognized him instantly. "Why, yere's that sensible ole feller what didn't want to ast no questions," he exclaimed. "You are right, Captain Nichol, I have no questions to ask." "Well, ef folks wuz all like you I'd have a comf't'ble time"
Mebby ye thought my wrath war coolin'. Ef ye did ye thought wrong!" Parish Thornton drew a long breath and the colour gradually went out of his brown face, leaving it white and rapt in an exaltation of passion. "I've been bidin' my time an' my time hes come," he declared in a voice that rang like a bronze bell. "When I kills ye I does a holy act.
Snipe grovelled in still farther behind my legs. "There 's got to be something done!" cried Lunette. "Folks's got to learn 't the United States Governmunt is a awful an' a solemn an' a turrible thing. What ef it sh'd be told 't we hadn't no more respec' for her down here to the Basin 'n to soak her through with strawberry jam an' molarsses!
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