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En who ez dat gal wid you? Mah daddy said, 'We ez gwine home fum wuk, en dis ez mah daughter. Dey said, 'Whar has she bin, we ain't nebber se'ed her. He told dem, 'I'd bin in Nashville. Dey said dey'd be back dat nite but we didn't see dem." "W'en I wuz in Manchester I promus de Lawd I wouldin' dance.
the lord amighty is hiding you all right done you ever dout it this money of yourn was took for some time las nite but it is returned with intres for god sake done ever come to the swamp at nite or late evnin or mornin or far in any time sompin worse an you know could git you Elnora began to tremble. She hastily glanced around.
"I tell you, boss," continued the old man, "when he tole me 'bout dat gal paddlin' dat bote on de Lake at nite, I diden' want to go any furder wid him, but he tole me dar wud be no danger. I cud not see hur, so I carrid him on to de Lake. He rit like de gal had run away an' had been drowned rite here. I shal nebber forget dat gentman.
She jawed me and said she wood tell father. when father came home she told on me and father sent me to bed at six o'clock. You jest wait Cele and you will find out. Aug. 3, 186- brite and fair. the fellers played a pretty mean trick on me tonite. they played it on Nibby Hartwel last nite.
DESSERT. Apples of Discord, a great many Pairs; Mormon Sweet-Hearts, Jumbles, &c. As an imitation of A. Ward's burlesque orthography it is somewhat overdone; but it has, nevertheless, certain touches of humour which will amuse the English reader. Nite befoar larst was an Erer in the annals of Sand Francisco; yis, an Erer; I sa it, and I guess I know what a Erer is! I gess I do!
On returnin to my humsted in Baldinsville, Injianny, resuntly, my feller sitterzens extended a invite for me to norate to 'em on the Krysis. I excepted & on larst Toosday nite I peared be4 a C of upturned faces in the Red Skool House.
Aug. 30. brite and fair. i gess i wont try to stay out all nite agen. it aint enny fun. yesterday afternoon mother made me go to bed so i woodent be sleepy at nite and Beanys mother she did two. i coodent sleep and bimeby i got up and stuck my head out of the window and looked over to Beanys house and Beany he was looking out of his window and bimeby Potter and Cawcaw went by with their fish poles and you bet i wanted to go two, but i had to stay in my room. so Beany and i begun to holler acrost to each other and i made up this poitry about Beany,
Three of dese men went to an early grave from trying to lift dis log all tore up inside. Maybe dat's whut ails me. "You had to be careful den, when traveling through de woods, or de varmints would git you, especially at night. I mind de time when a negro wuz comin' through de woods one nite, when he seed a panther about to spring on him. "Dis nigger dropped in his tracks lack he wuz dead.
I thot I saw Otheller before me all the time he was actin &, when the curtin fell, I found my spectacles was still mistened with salt-water, which had run from my eyes while poor Desdemony was dyin. Betsy Jane Betsy Jane! let us pray that our domestic bliss may never be busted up by a Iago! Edwin Forrest makes money acting out on the stage. He gits five hundred dollars a nite & his board & washin.
Instead, I remember seeing in his dream book, under the date of September fifteenth, an entry to this effect: "Last nite i dremed a drem. it wasent a polit drem so i won't rite it down." The girls saw this entry but, to their credit be it told, they never tried to find out what the "drem" was. As Peter said, they were "ladies" in the best and truest sense of that much abused appellation.
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