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"That 'are was an old cracked pitcher that Miry allers hed hated the sight of, and spring and fall she used to beg her father to let her throw it away; but no, he wouldn't let her touch it, and so it stood gatherin' dust. "Some on 'em run and handed it down; and it seemed jest full o' scourin'-sand and nothin' else, and they handed it to Miry. "Wal, Miry she was wrathy then.
W'y, we even hed her educated her mother was a-livin' then and we was well enough fixed to afford the educatin' of her, mother allus contended and we was besides, it was Marthy's notion, too, and you know how women is thataway when they git their head set.
"Won't we make fer home as soon's we can?" "Sis," said Phoebe, gravely, "an I be not deeply in error, thou art right. Now give me the letter." Rebecca relinquished the paper with a sigh of relief, then looked up in surprise at Phoebe, who was laughing aloud. "Why, here's a five-cent stamp, as I live!" she cried. "Where did it come from?" "I hed it in my satchel," said Rebecca.
"Patsy couldn't go to-day, 'm, on account of him hevin' no good boots, 'm, Jim not bein' paid off till Wednesday, 'n me hevin' no notice he hed no clean shirt, 'm, this not bein' his clean-shirt week, 'm. He takes it awful hard about that there story, 'm. I told him as how you'd be after tellin' another one next week, but it seems nothin' will comfort him."
And so when mother told me 'at the signs pinted to'rds Annie, w'y, of course, I hedn't no particular objections to that, 'cause Morris was of good fambly enough it turned out, and, in fact, was as stirrin' a young feller as ever I'd want fer a son-in-law, and so I hed nothin' more to say ner they wasn't no occasion to say nothin', 'cause right along about then I begin to notice 'at Marthy quit comin' home so much, and Morris kep' a- comin' more.
She was looking out of the car window with eyes that were serious and preoccupied. "He said he knowed all erbout him but thet a question like thet ought rightfully ter be put ter a man fust-handed. He bade me ask Jack myself when he come back but he pledged hisself ter answer all my questions ef Jack should happen ter refuse, atter he'd hed one chanst."
Did ye see Miss Carnegie rise an' gae oot afore he feenished?" "Div ye mean that, Elspeth?" and her husband was amazed at such penetration. "Noo a' thocht it hed been the heat; a' never held wi' that stove; it draws up the air. Hoo did ye jalouse yon?"
A sudden thought struck Peggy, and she turned to the farmer. "Did any of those bills have an identifying mark on it?" she asked. The farmer shook his head. But Mrs. Galloway had a better memory. "Why, yes, Ike," she exclaimed; "that twenty-dollar-bill you got frum Si. Giddens fer ther Baldwins. I re'klect thet it hed a big round O in red ink marked on ther back uv it.
"Wal, Bre'er 'Liab, dey sed a heap, but de upshot on't all was dat de white folks hed jes made up dar min's ter run dis kentry, spite ob ebbery ting. Dey sed dat dey wuz all fixed up in ebbery county from ole Virginny clean ter Texas, an' dey wuz gwine ter teach de niggers dere place agin, ef dey hed ter kill a few in each county an' hang 'em up fer scarecrows jes dat 'ere way.
"He was gret on texts, the doctor was. When he hed a p'int to prove, he'd jest go thro' the Bible, and drive all the texts ahead o' him like a flock o' sheep; and then, if there was a text that seemed agin him, why, he'd come out with his Greek and Hebrew, and kind o' chase it 'round a spell, jest as ye see a fellar chase a contrary bell-wether, and make him jump the fence arter the rest.
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