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I never saw such a nasty, persevering brute. "Well, we shook him at last though not before he had worried us for hundreds of miles northward, up the west coast of South America. But luck was against us that day. While we were resting and trying to get our breath, another family of fidgits came rushing by, shouting, 'Come on! Swim for your lives! The dog-fish are coming!
"You see," he says, "the point of going to war is this way, because "The damage you do Ain't totted to you But explained by the habits of nations. "Government pays the bills, commissary, sanitary, and them that's sent to God Almighty. I guess so. But it'd give Irish the fidgits.
Now, Jasper, whut air you a settin' up here fur, a shakin' like a lump o' calf-foot jelly? You give me the fidgits." "Wall, thar won't be nobody a laughin' now putty soon," said Jasper. "I kin see right now that these steers air goin' to run off inter the creek." "They ain't a goin' to do no sich of a thing, an' you know it. Miz Mayfield, did you ever see sich carryin's-on?"
If they throw us on a rubbish-heap and we fry in the sun, we'll not be much worse off than we are here in this smelly prison. What do you say? Will you risk it? "'I will, she said 'and gladly. "So next morning two fidgits were found by the keeper floating on the top of the water in their tank, stiff and dead. We gave a mighty good imitation of dead fish although I say it myself.
I jumped overboard." "Changed your mind?" "Well, I'd thought some of enlisting for the Chilian War, but Irish don't like war. Gives him the fidgits. I made a 'Farewell' going out. I thought I'd come round and tell it to you."
Boy, is you goin' move, lak I patiently is warned you, or ain't you? Git on out yander to de stable an' confide yo' sorrows to de Jedge's old mare. Mebbe she mout be able to endure you, but you p'intedly gives me de fidgits. Git befo' I starts findin' out ef dat flat haid of yourn fits up smooth ag'inst de back side of a skillit." Nervously she fingered the handle of her largest frying-pan.
"Now dog-fish are particularly fond of fidgits. We are, you might say, their favorite food and for that reason we always keep away from deep, muddy waters. What's more, dog-fish are not easy to escape from; they are terribly fast and clever hunters. So up we had to jump and on again. "After we had gone a few more hundred miles we looked back and saw that the dog-fish were gaining on us.
Her pipe dropped unheeded, and she gazed with fixed eyes out of the window. "Tell us about your visions," demanded Annette. "Well," said Aunt Melvy, "de fust I knowed about it wuz de lizards in my legs. I could feel 'em jus' as plain as day, dese here little green lizards a-runnin' round inside my legs. I tole de doctor 'bout hit, Miss Nettie; but he said 't warn't nothin' but de fidgits.
She is never still, and she fidgits right through her clothes." "That is $83.33 1/3 cents a month. Make it thirty four cents. But no bills, Barbara." "And no extras," my mother observed, in a stern tone. "Candy, tennis balls and matinee tickets?" I asked. "All included," said father. "And Church collection also, and ice cream and taxicabs and Xmas gifts." Ah, me! How happy I was!
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