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"'Well, he answers, 'my soul's pretty clean-swept, I think, save for one Bluebeard chamber in it that's been kep' locked ever so many years. It's nice and dirty by this time, I expect, he says. Then the grin comes on his mouth again. 'I'll open it some day, he says, 'and look. There's something in it about comparing me to a dancing dervish, with the wind in my petticuts.
All I ken is that I thought the voice fair-spoken, and I alloo it was a daft-like thing to do, but I pu'ed the bar, I had nae sooner dune't nor I was gripped by the thrapple and kep' doon by a couple o' the blackguards that held me a' the time the ither three or four were " Doom caught him by the collar and shook him angrily. "Ye lie, ye Fife cat; I see't in your face!"
'Ever git sassy? Uncle Eb asked. He whipped a coal out of the ashes then and lifted it in his fingers to the bowl of his pipe. 'Never real sassy, he said between vigourous puffs. 'One stole a ham off my pyazz las' summer; Al Fifield brought 't in fer me one day smelt good too! I kep' savin' uv it thinkin' I'd enjoy it all the more when I did hev it.
Can you think of them wretched wives sold from their husbands; them children as clear as ourn tore from their mothers; and old folks kep slavin eighty long, hard years with no pay, no help, no pity, when they git past work? Lisha Wilkins, look at that, and say no ef you darst!" Mrs.
"Do you find yo'self pretty well, sir?" inquired Keppel. "I find myself pretty weak," replied Yancy. "Me and Kep has been watching fo' to keep the flies from stinging you," explained Henry. "We-all takes turns doin' that," Keppel added. "Well, and how many of you-all are there?" asked Yancy. "There's six of we-uns and the baby."
The range was easy; his station was well hidden; and the kettle was the hated symbol of his disappointed hopes. "One more, and then I've done," I sez to myself thus he reported to Snarley Bob "and I went back for the old sling, feelin' better than I'd done for weeks. I picks the best stone I could find, and kep' on whirlin' her round my head all the way back.
The banks on either side on't stand dressed in livin' green. There wuz a good many American and English people at the tarven in Cairo, but no one we knew. In the garden at the side of the tarven wuz a ostrich pen where a number of great ostriches wuz kep', and also several pelicans walked round in another part of the garden.
But Billy'd say, a-grumblin' away, "It's worse'n worse, young ones a-botherin' my life out o' me, and the birds a-jabberin' and the posies a-smellin' till my head aches. Oh, deary me! I'm 'most dead." So 't went on and kep' on. Jack had every mite as hard work as Billy, but he didn't mind it, he was so full o' what was comin' and how good 't would be to get there.
"Did ye not say just now that I was flesh and blood? sez I. 'I have not changed since, I sez; an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Your arms to yoursilf! sez she, an' her eyes sparkild. "'Sure, 'tis only human nature, sez I, an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Nature or no nature, sez she, 'you take your arm away or I'll tell Bragin, an' he'll alter the nature av your head.
As fer me, Bill, I'm a good deal happier than I was when she kep' scoldin' me from mornin' to night every minute I was home." "Is Zog a kind master?" asked Trot. "I can't say he's kind," replied Cap'n Joe, "for he's as near a devil as any livin' critter CAN be. He grumbles an' growls in his soft voice all day, an' hates himself an' everybody else. But I don't see much of him.
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