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'Only I'm afeard if I began I wouldn't know how to lave off, 'twould be so pleasant, ye owdacious villain. Ha! ye'd throw the stick at me, would ye? and Mr. Callaghan was across the fence in a twinkling. Whereupon Nim fairly turned tail, and fled ignominiously, after having ineffectually discharged a piece of timber, javelin-wise, at his enemy.
But unwilling to commit such a work to an inferior hand, we made nim an ultimate proposition on our part. He was as much mortified at the prospect of not being the executor of such a work, as we were, not to have it done by such a hand. He therefore acceded to our terms; though we are satisfied he will be a considerable loser.
'I guessed I'd dine with you to-day, said Nim, marching on before his host. With equal coolness, as soon as the dish of trout appeared, he transfixed the largest with his case-knife. 'Not so fast, my friend, interrupted Mr. Holt, bringing back the captive. 'We divide fair here, though it's not Yankee law, I'm aware.
'I see all yar people at the bee: yar too high yarself to go to them kind'er meetings, I reckon, Miss? Wal, I like that. I like pride. Th' ole woman said always, so did Uncle Zack, "Nim, yar above yar means; yar only fit for a Britisher gentleman," they did, I guess! 'The sun is getting so hot, quoth Miss Wynn, laying down her hoe.
'By the way, said Arthur presently, returning from chopping apart the trunk into two lengths of fifteen feet, 'did you hear that the Scotchman between us and the "Corner," at Daisy Burn, wants to sell his farm and improvements, and is pushing out into the wild land farther up the pond? Nim told me yesterday.
But plague seize my old emotions! we'm come to marry, not to bury." "By the look o't 'tis' neither marry nor bury, Nim nor Doll," observed Old Zeb, who had sacrificed his paternal feelings and come to church in order to keep abreast with the age; "'tis more like Boscastle Fair, begin at twelve o'clock an' end at noon. Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?"
The Lattitudes produced is 46° 15' 13 9/10" North, Capt Lewis took a vocabillary of the So kulk or Pierced noses Language and Chim-nd-pum Language whic is in Some words different but orriginally the Same people The Great Chief Cuts-Sa.h nim gave me a Sketch of the rivers & Tribes above on the great river & its waters on which he put great numbers of villages of his nation & friends, as noted on the Sketch
'Wal, the fact is, squire, Nim will have the two farms, an' the store, an' the bank shares of course not all that till I die, but Daisy Burn at once: an' an' he's in a 'tarnal everlastin' state about your daughter Linda, the purtiest gal in the township, I guess. Mr. Wynn rose from his seat, his usually pale countenance deeply flushed.
In the backwoods, one time, I found a party of honest settlers in a tavern over an old romance, searching for some sufficiently high-sounding title to confer on their cluster of cabins. 'I was amused to find that Zack Bunting's eldest son is called Nimrod, familiarized to "Nim," said Robert.
I guess you won't mind their sayin' it's the truth of a shabby dodge, though. 'Not a bit, replied Robert; 'I expected something of the kind. I didn't imagine I'd please anybody but my own conscience. "Conscience!" reiterated Nim, with a sneer. 'That stock hain't a long life in the bush, I guess.
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