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"I did year tell un 'er name," replied the old man, with a great affectation of interest, "but look like I done gone en fergit it out'n my mine. Ef I don't disremember," he continued, "hit wuz Miss Molly Cottontail, en I speck we better let it go at dat."
"Say, Tresler," Joe went on, ignoring the other's objection. "Go easy; jest say nothin'. Kind o' fergit this thing fer the time. Ther's other work fer you. I'd a heap sooner I'd bin killed than you git roped into this racket. It's Miss Dianny you're to look to, not me; an' now, mebbe, they'll run you off'n the ranch." Tresler shook his head decidedly.
Grace and Skeets were not even awakened; Mrs. Hooper did not leave her room. As the constable turned a light on the handcuffed prisoner he remarked: "That's the chap all right. Description fits. He'll bring that five hundred all right." "A reward; is it?" said the watchman. "An' don't ye fergit who gits it. Not me, ner you, Constable, but the bye here." He laid his hand on Gus's shoulder.
T-S: "I'll never do it no more!" Said the husband: "Y'allus say dat. Fergit it, Maw, you're all right now, you don't have to have your hair frizzed fer six mont's!" Said Mrs. T-S: "I gotta lie down. I'm dyin', Abey, I tell you. Lemme git on de sofa." Said the husband: "Now, Maw, we gotta git to dinner " "I can't eat no dinner." "Vot?" There was genuine alarm in the husband's voice.
A fine gentleman? And how do you know that, Mrs. Fitzpatrick?" "How do I know a gintleman, is it? Sure, it's by the way he trates a lady." "Ah," said the lawyer with a most courteous bow, "that is a most excellent test. And what do you know of this ah this gentleman's manners with ladies?" "An' don't I know how he trates mesilf? He's not wan to fergit a lady's name, you may lay to that."
"'Julius', sezee, 'did yer knowed yer wuz wukkin' long yer wid a ham? "I could n' 'magine w'at he meant. 'G'way fum yer, Dave, says I. 'Yer ain' wearin' no ham no mo'; try en fergit 'bout dat; 't ain' gwine ter do yer no good fer ter 'member it. "'Look a-yer, Julius, sezee, 'kin yer keep a secret? "'Co'se I kin, Dave, says I. 'I doan go roun' tellin' people w'at yuther folks says ter me.
In quick flashes the scenes of his boyhood came before him, the days on shipboard, on the road with Ricks, at the Exposition, at Hollis Farm, at the university, and through them all that golden thread of romance that had led him safe and true to the very heart of the enchanted land where he was to dwell forever. "'Fore de Lawd, Mist' Sandy, ef you ain't fergit yer necktie!"
Put two an' two togither an' Oi've towld ye nothin' at all; but av ye fergit ut Oi'll see that phwat th' wolves lave av th' bum-legged teamster is buried proper an' buried deep, an' Oi'll blow in tin dollars f'r a mass f'r his sowl.
Don' fergit de headbo'd an' de footbo'd, an' a silver plate on de coffin, ef dere's money ernuff." They went their way, and Miller hurried on. They might resist attack; he thought it extremely unlikely that they would begin it; but he knew perfectly well that the mere knowledge that some of the negroes contemplated resistance would only further inflame the infuriated whites.
Yer see dem sinners, eh?" rolling up his sleeve and showing a round, close-corded arm. "Oh, I'se some when I gits started, I is. All whip-cord an' chain-lightnin', whoop! I'll bet a harf dollar now, an borrer de money from Bre'er Nimbus h'yer ter pay it, dat I kin turn more han'-springs an' offener an' longer nor ary man in dis crowd. Oh, I'se some an' more too, I is, an' don't yer fergit it.
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