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Three wimmen lay at one time perfectly speechless with the power. And some of em' screemed so you could hear 'em fer half a mile." I have always believed in layin' holt of the duty next to you, and doin' some things, things He has commanded. Everybody to their own way. I don't condemn yourn, but I have always seemed to believe more in the solid, practical parts of religion, than the ornimental.
Though I am big unfort'nitly I can stow myself away in small compass, an' I've larned how, when there ain't overmuch grub, to git along fairly well on short allowance. When d'ee trip your anchor? I mean, when do ye start?" "When to-morrow's sun touches the tree-tops in the east," said the Indian chief. "All right, Okematan, I'm your man after layin' in a breakfast-cargo."
O, but I'll soak 'em for that yet." "Trouble is," said Si, laughing, "the boys've bin layin' around doin' nothin' too long. They're fuller o' devilment than a dog is of fleas." "But I haint told you half," continued the Orderly-Sergeant.
"What war the word ez ye war layin' off ter say ter me?" Nate asked, curiosity vividly expressed in his face. Birt leaned back against the pile of bark and hesitated. Last night he had thought Nate the most desirable person to whom he could confide his secret whose aid he could secure. There were many circumstances that made this seem wise.
"We'll drift in quiet, hang the buck in the slaughter-house, and then pack the kitty-cat into the bunk-house and leave him layin' like he was asleep, by Bill Haskins's bunk. Ole Bill allus gits his feet on the floor afore he gits his eyes open. Mebby he won't step high and lively when he sees what he's got his feet on!" Bailey, plodding ahead and leading Frisco, chuckled.
Shore 'nough, one of 'em was still hitched to the fence, an' t'other was gone. We stood around a minute or two examinin' the hoss an' then pa says let's go up the road aways an' see if we c'n see anything. An' by gosh, we hadn't gone more'n fifty feet afore we come plumb on a man layin' in the middle of the road. Pa shook him an' he didn't let out a sound. He was warm but deader'n a tombstone.
"Yo' all ain't quittin'?" Tex roused himself to ask. "Not over a little josh? Say, you're layin' yoreself wide open to more of the same. Yo' all wants to take it the way it's meant, Skyrider. Listen here, boy, if yo' all wants to git away from the ranch right now, why don't yo' all speak for to stay at Sinkhole camp?
He was too tall for a diver he was. They say he stood six futt four in his socks; moreover he was as thin as a shadow from a bad gas-lamp. He was workin' one day down in the 'arbour, layin' stones at the foundations of the noo breakwater, when they set off a blast about a hundred yards off from where he was workin', an' so powerful was the blast that it knocked him clean on his back.
"Well?" he said in the low, kindly tone he used in speaking to her. "I foun' Lucy Thomas, Mistuh Bristow," she said, breathless and indignant. "She is sho' one sorry nigger. She wuz drunk layin' out in de parluh uv dat little house uv her'n. Dead drunk." "Did you wake her up, Mattie?" "Yas, suh; but she ain' fit to come do no wuk.
It it ain't like the kid and Harry was layin' awake for me last Tuesday they was both asleep when I got home. They don't let each other get lonesome, and Harry he There ain't nothing much for me to do round home." "Now you're talkin' the English language, Doll." "I'll go, Jimmie."
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