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"There hain't any wickedness a-goin' on to the Fair as I know of; it is a goin' to be full and overflowin' of object lessons a teachin' of the greatness and the glory of the Lord of Heaven, and the might and power of the human intellect.
I hain't nebber been a sojer like you, cousin, an' it's a fac' dat I don't keer ter be; but I du say ez how I'd be ez willin' ter stan' up an' fight fer de rights we's got ez enny man dat ebber's trod de sile ennywhere's 'bout Red Wing, ef I thought ez how 'twould do de least bit ob good. But I tell yer, gemmen, hit won't do enny good, not de least bit, an' I knows it.
At that moment Deforrest Young buried deep in his heart the passion which hurt like nothing else hurts on earth, and something very like happiness took its place. He leaned back and crossed his legs. Then he reached into his coat pocket and produced his cigar case. He bent forward and offered it to Andy. "Smoke, Andy?" he queried. "Nope, thank ye, sir. Hain't smoked since Pal Skinner got sick.
And I ruther mistrust she is one of the "would-but-couldn't's," though I wouldn't dast to let her know I said so, not for the world. Josiah never could bear the sight of her, and he sort o' blamed her for bein' a old maiden. But I put a stop to that sudden, for sez I: "She hain't to blame, Josiah." And she wuzn't. I hain't a doubt of it.
"He hain't dead, is he?" asked Toby, piteously, as he climbed up on one of the wheels and looked over in a frightened way at the little deformed body that lay so still and lifeless. "No, he hain't dead," said Ben, who had detected a faint pulsation of the heart; "but why didn't some of you send for a doctor when it first happened?" "We did," replied one of the men.
I hain't nebber had no taste for corpses nohow, an' I didn't like de job mo' specially, sah, when one ob 'em come to ez I was pullin' him froo de dark ter de grave " "Come to, did he?" the President smiled. "Yassah he come to all of er sudden an' kicked me! An' hit scared me near 'bout ter death. I lit out fum dar purty quick, sah, an' go West.
They ain't no pizener ones 'n what HE is. Mighty good man, pap is. Everybody says that. If they said any diffrunt they wouldn't say it whar I wuz not MUCH they wouldn't." "What is your own religion?" "Well, boss, you've kind o' got me, there and yit you hain't got me so mighty much, nuther.
"A dog don't have to listen to soul-sickening speeches from them that deny it freedom and justice about its bein' a damosk rose, and a seraphine, when it knows it hain't: it knows, if it knows any thing, that it is a dog. "You see, Dorlesky has been kinder embittered by her trials that politics, corrupt legislation, has brought right onto her.
I sez, "no wonder!" "Yes, she wuz a Christian and she passed sweetly up into the Hevings, thank the Lord!" sez he lookin' acrost onto Faith's sweet face, for she had come back and set down acrost the room. "She is better off, I hain't a doubt on't!" sez I fervently. "I don't know about that.
I looked over his shoulder, in wild horrer at them awful words, and then I whispered, "Devilled crabs and do you keep still, Josiah Allen; I'd ruther not have anythin' to eat at all than to have you act so it hain't devilish." "Wall, what is the difference?" he sez, out loud and strong; "devilish or bedevilled, they both mean the same.
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