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"Maybe, you does," growled Robin. He edged off, rubbing his ear. "Befo' de wah you 'd be mindin' hawgs what you ought to be doin' now, stidder losin' races an' spilin' somebody's hosses, mekin' out you kin ride." A shout of approving derision greeted this retort. Old Robin was a man of note on that circuit.
I don't know what I will do with them, but I'm mighty sure I won't butcher them." "Don't bother him, Mahailey," Mrs. Wheeler cautioned her. "He's tired, and he has to fix some place for the live hogs." "I know he is, mam, but I could easy cut up one of them hawgs myself. I butchered my own little pig onct, in Virginia. I could save the hams, anyways, and the spare-ribs.
"An' goin' swift, some hawgs, stray, half grown, 'bout twenty shoats feedin' in the woods my rustlin' in the bushes skeered 'em I reckon they sot out to run, possessed by the devil, like them the Scriptur' tells about." She paused again, panting, her hand to her heart. The disaffected juryman turned to one side, recrossing his legs, and spitting disparagingly on the ground.
"Dad didn' often git that a-way," she said; "but he'd been out a-huntin' hawgs that mornin' and had met up with some teamsters and gone to a political speakin' and had tuk a dram or two of their mean whiskey, and not havin' nothin' on his stummick, hit had all gone to his head. No, 'pap' didn't git that a-way often, and he'd be all right jes' as soon as he slept it off a while."
Which Hoskins don't make his fences to conform to this yere rool none; leastwise they ain't hawg tight as is shown by one of Olson's hawgs. "The hawg comes pirootin' about Hoskins's fence, an' he goes through easy; an' the way that invadin' animal turns Bill's potatoes bottom up don't hinder him a bit. He shorely loots Bill's lot; that's whatever.
"Knowin these yere deefects in raccoons, this Olson plots to take advantage tharof; an' by playin' it low on Bill's raccoon, get even with Bill about that dead hawg. Which Bill wouldn't have took a drove of hawgs; no indeed! not the whole Fall round-up of hawgs in all of West Tennessee, an' lose that raccoon.
"That's Smilin' Lou," he said. "He's a mean boy to monkey with. Talk about road hawgs he's one yuh can't outset!" "So that's the kind uh game yuh asked me to set in on!" Casey broke another long silence. He had felt in his bones that young Kenner was watching him secretly, waiting for him to take his stand for or against the proposition.
March, whom, she said, she had seen at a fair given by both the Suez churches to raise money to repair the graveyard fence "on account o' de hawgs breakin' in so awfm." "And you say everybody was there, eh?" indolently responded John, as he resharpened his lead-pencil. "Even including Professor Pettigrew?"
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