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He stood for the rights of the people as long as he could, till they got too obstropulous, as they sometimes will when they git to goin'. But I presoom he did desire his country's good. His poor body wuz buried with pomp and public mourning, and then a few years after taken up and laid with criminals. But good land! he'd got beyend it all.
"Well, 'Pollo, how's yo' case on Miss Lily comin' on?" either one would say, with a wink at the other, and Apollo would artlessly report the state of the heavens with relation to his particular star, as when he once replied to this identical question, "Well, Miss Lily was mighty obstropulous 'istiddy, but she is mo' cancelized dis mornin'."
And I began to walk towards him, quite slow, and my hands down; only there was trouble in my eye, if anybody took the pains to look. "You're a low, obstropulous fellow, Sah," says he. "You bet!" says I. By that time he thought I was about as near as convenient, and lit out so it would have done your heart good to see him travel.
But it had to yield, as the twentieth century approached and the millennium drew nigh; men not so very big boned either, but knowin' quite a lot, jest chained that great roarin' obstropulous Geni, and has made it do good work.
"Straight talking is always so rude no one ever seems to require it on pleasant occasions." "That's all nonsense. You always was a squeamish, obstropulous little thing, Ellen. It's only natural that having you back in my house as I'm more than glad to do I should want to know how you stand. What made you come to me sudden like that?" "Can't you guess?
I might've knew with all them clo'es bedaubled over though I can't, ez the doctor says, see how me a-takin' a pill is goin' to help matters but of co'se I wouldn't let on to him, an' he a bachelor." He stopped talking and felt his wrist. "Maybe my pulse is obstropulous, an' ought to be sedated down. Reckon I'll haf to kill that steer or sell him, one though I swo'e I wouldn't.
And I began to walk towards him, quite slow, and my hands down; only there was trouble in my eye, if anybody took the pains to look. “You’re a low, obstropulous fellow, Sah,” says he. “You bet!” says I. By that time he thought I was about as near as convenient, and lit out so it would have done your heart good to see him travel.
Five hundred dollars damage, lawyer eh!" "No matter, till I see you. Put your nag in gears quickly you have little time to spare!" The pedler proceeded to the work, and was in a little while ready for a start. But he lingered at the porch. "I say, lawyer, it's a hard bout they've given me this time. I did fear they would be rash and obstropulous, but didn't think they'd gone so far.
When she showed me, I affected surprise, and said, "Bless me! the window was shut when we went to bed." "I'll be hanged," said she, "if Sawney Waddle, the pedlar, has not got up in a dream and done it, for I heard him very obstropulous in his sleep, Sure I put a chamberpot under his bed!"
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