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'Fo' you hed yo' sense back dey wanted ter stick you over yonder in dat ole blue shanty wid all de skin peelin' off hit, but I des put my foot right down en 'lowed dey 'ouldn't. W'at you wan' ketch mo'n you got fur?" "But I can't stay here," weakly remonstrated Dan, "and I must have something to eat I tell you I could eat nails. Bring me anything on God's earth except green corn."
She stood between him and the window, and he was amazed at the change in her face. "She's like 'em a'," he muttered, angrily, as he went to his own sitting-room. "You may put a bridle in t' wind's mouth as easy as you'll guide a woman. If I hed been t' young squire, I'd hev brokken t' will a' to bits, that I would. 'Leave t' blinds alone, Jasper! Highty-tighty, she is.
"I ain't denyin' but what she hed nat'ral feelin' fur her own chil'ren, bein' dead," said the dame who had made the unfortunate remark about the curling hair, "but Laurelia Sudley war always a contrary-minded, lackadaisical kind o' gal afore she war married, sorter set in opposition, an' now ez she ain't purty like she useter was, through cryin' her eyes out, an' gittin' sallow-complected an' bony, I kin notice her contrariousness more.
Ef ennybody tuk arter him he war convenient ter disappear down hyar with we-uns. So he went ter the mill." "An' I wisht I hed put him in the hopper an' ground him up," said the miller, in a blood-curdling tone, but with a look of plaintive anxiety in his eyes. "He hev made a heap o' trouble 'twixt Hil'ry an' me fust an' last. Whar's Hil'ry disappeared to, en-nyways?"
An' ses ah, 'Weel, if ah hed a nice braw husband to gang to the kirk wi' me foreby, it's a braw spicy goon ah'd be wearin' an' ah'm thinkin' o' gettin' a gray poplin the day, mebby. An' he's promised to come gin ah merry him but ah'm jist no sure yet."
"Wall, I don't s'pose she hed any idea o' Dixie's bein' at a circus over Wareham jest then; an' ten to one she didn't care if the whole town seen her. She wanted to get rid of him, 'n' she didn't mind how she did it. Dixie ain't one of the shootin' kinds, an' anyhow, Fiddy Maddox wa'n't one to look ahead; whatever she wanted to do, that she done, from the time she was knee high to a grasshopper.
"Say, Jim," said Jordan, "them folks was a good deal like we is, after all, wuzn't they? They'd fight for most nuthin'; they'd get gone on wimmen; liked good hosses; they'd trade and work tryin' ter get rich; and ef they hed hearn of a gold mine, they'd gone ter Arizony for it." "I guess you are right, Jordan," said Sedgwick, "you always are.
Jest across frum me there wuz a lady with a big, fat baby, the pruttiest woman I hed seen in a month uv Sundays; and the baby! why, doggone my skin, when I wuzn't payin' money to the nigger, darned if I didn't set there watchin' the big, fat little cuss, like he wuz the only baby I ever seen.
Mose went slowly and picked up his hat. Then he returned to the bank and looked regretfully at the water. 'Never see the beat o' thet, he went on. 'Never see sech power 'n a fish. Knocks the spots off any fish I ever hearn of. 'Ye riled him with that big tackle o' yourn, said Uncle Eb. 'He wouldn't stan' it. 'Feel jest as if I'd hed holt uv a wil' cat, said Mose.
I tell ye it's the divil's own colour, that blue-orange an' blue is the divil's own colours, shure enough, fur brimstone's yaller; an' its blue whin it's burnin', that I hed from his riv'rince himself bless him!" Dinner with the Witch Biddy meanwhile had waddled around the room slapping the boards with her broad bare feet as she prepared their dinner.
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