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"Lord save us, Jos! Hev we reelly took in Injuns? What on airth Well, well, she's fond uv her baby's enny white woman! I kin see thet; an', Injun or no Injun, they've got to stay naow. Yer couldn't turn a dog out 'n sech weather's this. I bet thet baby's father wuz white, then. Look at them blue eyes." Ramona listened and looked intently, but could understand nothing.
Morris," said the officer, "your wife has agreed to keep my letters for me " "Yaas," broke in the postmaster. "I know'd she would. Yeou'll find she'll dew it right, tew. Nobody can't come enny tricks on her can they, Sue? I wish one o' 'em durn'd deetecters would come around, jest tew see heow she'd pull the wool over 'im.
But ef I wuz, my fust ch'ice'd be to git the fish, an' enny way that got 'em I'd call good." The arrival of the Springtime, releasing the streams from their imprisonment of ice, and setting the trout to leaping in every meadow-brook and all along the curving reaches of the swift Lirrapaug, transferred this piscatorial contest from the region of discourse to the region of experiment.
John had never heard about Sary, so he was unprepared to offer any advice, but he thought best to agree in everything with Jeb, concerning this particular one, and all "widders" in general. "Ye-es siree! That Sary kin ketch any man she starts out to trap. Ef she laid eyes on enny of them farm-hands at Pebbly Pit, like-as-how she has on me, they'd roll right over and eat from her han's.
She began to laugh hysterically, trying to check herself. "I didn't mean you enny harm," said Lund slowly, addressing Peggy. "Why, I wouldn't harm you, gal. You're my woman. You come to me. I was jest jest sorter swept off my bearin's. Why," he turned to Rainey, his voice down-pitching to a growl of angry contempt, "you pen-shovin' whippersnapper, I c'ud break you in ha'f with one hand.
There was a bite to the air, and Rainey, fresh from the warm cabin, wished he had brought up his sweater. Lightly as he trod, the giant heard him and instantly recognized him. "How'd ye make out with the hunters last night?" he queried. "I turned in early." "We had quite a session," said Rainey. "They got me in the game, all right." "Enny objections 'bout yore stakin' yore share in the gold?"
"'He des gone by, sez Brer Rabbit, en ole man B'ar tuck off down de road like a skeer'd mule, en Brer Rabbit, he come out en dry hisse'f in de sun, en go home ter his fambly same ez enny udder man. "The Bear didn't catch the Rabbit, then?" inquired the little boy, sleepily. "Jump up fum dar, honey!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, by way of reply.
I warn't nuffin' ter what I war once, but dar war a power o' strength in me yet, ez he found out. "Dey tuk me up an' carried me ter jail, an' when de court come on, my ole mammy wuz dead; so I couldn't prove she war my mammy, an' I don't 'llow 'twould hev made enny difference ef I had.
"Seems sorter sizable," he replied, sibilantly, sucking his pipe-stem. Todd nodded meditatively several times, leaning his elbows on his knees, his eyes fixed on the landscape. "Hev she got enny particular marks, ez ye knows on?" he drawled. "Wa'al, she be ez black ez a crow, with the nigh fore-foot white.
"Wall, I did hent ter her thet p'raps yer could dew something, ef she wuz ter tell yer all abaout it; but she allowed thar wa'n't enny use in talkin'. Ther jedge, he sed her witnessin' wouldn't be wuth nuthin' to no jury; 'n' thet wuz what I wuz a wantin' to ask yeow, ef thet wuz so." "Yes, that is what the lawyers here told me," said the Agent.
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