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They haint bin riotin' around, and I ain't a-goin' with you. You've no right, I tell you, to interfere with me." "Well, you just will go with me, and no more chinning." A Major, attracted by the altercation, rode up and asked what was the matter.
I know they will come home more placider, more serener, and more settled-downer. Why I have known a short tower to Slab City or Loontown act like a charm on my pardner, when crossness wuz in his mean and snappishness wuz present with him. I have known him to set off with the mean of a lion and come back with the liniment of a lamb. Curious, haint it?
It haint nothin' pretty anyway. And as fer the waists bein' all girted up and drawed in, that is nothin' but crushed bones and flesh and vitals, that is just crowdin' down your insides into a state o' disease and deformity, torturin' your heart down so's the blood can't circulate, and your lungs so's you can't breathe, it is nothin' but slow murder anyway, and if I ever take it into my head to kill myself, Alminy Hagidone, I haint a goin' to do it in a way of perfect torture and torment to me, I'd ruther be drownded."
We haint got no ear for music. We're regular soldiers, we are, and don't you forget it." "But you ain't nigh 18," said Si, looking him over, pleased with the boy's spirit. "You bet I'm over 18," answered the boy. "I told the Mustering Officer I was, and stuck to it in spite of him.
"Nobody don't live there no more, sir," she said. "Where have they gone?" "Well, reely, I couldn't tell you, sir. Because, reely, I don't know nothing about it. I haint but jest lately moved in here myself, and I don't know nothing about nobody around here scarcely at all." The Doctor shut himself again in his carriage and let himself be whisked away, in great vacuity of mind.
The older woman wrapped a blanket about the girl, as her husband came upstairs again with a pad of telegram blanks, and said, "Now, I'll write out the message you've got to send for you, if you want me to." "Thank you, sir. I'm obliged to you and your missus. I reckon you can put the words better than I can, for I haint ... I have never sent one before. It's for Dr.
The father felt prouder of his son than he had ever felt, and there were few present who did not almost wish him their own. Little Charley was asked by Mr. if he was hungry, on observing him wistfully eyeing a piece of cake. "We haint had nothin' to eat all day, sir, none of us." "And why not, my little man?" asked Mr. in a voice of assumed calmness.
And, heedless of the cluster of waiting friends beyond, she caught the flushing, bashful, happy child into her arms. "Oh, Smiles, haint hit all too wonderful. Hit's like dreamy-land, an' I'm plumb erfeered thet I'll wake up an' find hit haint real. But yo're real, my Smiles, an' oh, how I loves ye."
"But we haint seen no guerrillas yit," said Harry Joslyn and Gid Mackall, whose minds seemed more fascinated with that species of an enemy than any other, and they apparently voiced the minds of the rest. "When're we likely to see some guerrillas?" "O, the guerrillas are layin' purty low now, betwixt here and Nashville," Si carelessly explained.
Blakesley," said Shorty with dignity, "haint nothing to do with my conduct when I'm charged with responsible dooty. It's my dooty to stop the awful practice o' likker-drinkin' in this camp, an' I'm goin' to do it, no matter what the cost. You jest shet up that clam-shell o' your'n an' stop interfering with your officers."
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