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"Hif you did that, hit's your own fault." "I wouldn't have done it, except to advertise my shoe business," said Terwilliger, ruefully.

His cheeks were fallen in to such an extent that the blinking red eyes above looked larger; it was as though the old rascal's crimes of callous selfishness and greed had suddenly aged him. Stoddard pulled in his horse at the foot of the steps. "I hear one of the little girls was hurt in the mill last night. Was she badly injured? Which one was it?" he asked abruptly. "Hit's Deanie.

"Yer mo'n welcome, honey," said Uncle Bob, soothed by Diddie's answer "yer mo'n welcome; but hit's gittin' too late fur you chil'en ter be out; yer'd better be er gittin' toerds home." Here the little girls looked at each other in some perplexity, for they knew Diddie had been missed, and they were afraid to go to the house.

"I tell you, Jim, hit's th' only safe way. You didn't use t' be so squeamish." Several times the old shepherd was mentioned, and also the stranger whom Wash had seen that evening. And once, the trembling girl heard Young Matt's name. At length the guest rose to go, and Mr. Lane walked with him to the gate.

Then he said, gently: "Hit's gone, befo' hit ever come to us, Cornely. Hit never breathed a breath of this werrisome world." A man who had practised medicine in the Turkey Tracks for twenty-five years a doctor among these mountain people, where poverty is the rule, hardship a condition of life, and tragedy a fairly familiar element, would have had his fibre well stiffened.

De top ob hit's clean gone, sah. Dat's why I allus combs my ha'r down close over my years " He paused and held up the piece of dried flesh. "An' dat's hit, sah." "A piece of your ear?" "Hit sho is.

They set at home on their hunkers till some feller comes and informs." "What class of people does the informing?" "Oh, sometimes hit's some pizen old bum who's been refused credit. Sometimes hit's the wife or mother of some feller who's drinkin' too much. Then, agin, hit may be some rival blockader who aims to cut off the other feller's trade, and, same time, divert suspicion from his own self.

I bin livin' yer more'n seventy year, an' I year talk er niggers seein' ghos'es all times er night an' all times er day, but I ain't never seed none yit; an' deze yer flags an' Jacob's lathers, I ain't seed dem, nudder." "Dey er dar, Brer Remus." "Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Ab.

As the man repeated Jed's question, he drew his hand wearily across his brow; "I I it doesn't much matter, boy. I suppose I must find some place where I can stay to- night. Do you live near here?" "Nope," Jed answered, "Hit's a right smart piece to whar I live. This here's grindin' day, an' I've been t' mill over on Fall Creek; the Matthews mill hit is. Hit'll be plumb dark 'gin I git home.

Hit's kinderly like young colts plungin' ergainst a new hand on ther bridle-rein we've got ter keep cool-headed an' patient an' ack tergether when a feller like thet shows up." Parish Thornton nodded, and Hump Doane took off his hat and ran his hand through his bristling hair.