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He got it once when he saw a man almost killed." And they carried him off to the pump to bring him to himself again. Fris and Ole busied themselves over the dead body, placed something under the head, and washed away the sand that had got rubbed into the skin of the face. "He was my best boy," said Fris, stroking the dead man's head with a trembling hand.
Ole massa might be 'long most any time now." He communed with himself in this strain for about five minutes, and then threw his hoe across his shoulder, and picked a road among the hills of growing corn until he passed out of the white dazzling light of the field into the grey-green shadows of the swamp.
Ef you thes but name the word, s' I, 'I'll take an' lay my han' upon the men that done this unrighteousness, for they stan' no furder than yon piller, s' I. 'Them men, s' I, 'surroundered the house of Jackson Ricks, gentermun friends, he bein' a member of Friendship Church, an' called 'im forth wi' the ashoreance of Satan an' the intents of evil, s' I; 'an' ole en decrippled ez he wuz, they shot 'im down them men at yon piller, s' I, 'ere he could but raise his trimblin' han' in supplication; an' the boldest of 'em dast not to face me here an' say nay, s' I."
It is the best picture of the kind that I have ever seen, I think. It holds one, in a way " "By golly, I bet Chip took a pitcher uh that!" exclaimed Slim, who had been doing some hard thinking. "He was tellin' us last winter about ridin' up on that ole Diamon' Bar cow with a pack uh wolves around her, an' her a-standin' 'em off, an' he shot two uh the wolves.
"Herb," he gurgled in snatches, the words being half heard, half guessed at, "'twas I took 'em the skins an' the antlers. I wanted to get to the ole camp an' let you take it out o' me afore I keeled over." Herb had taken Cyrus's place, and was upholding him with a tenderness which showed that the guide's heart was in this hour melted to a jelly.
He had shaken hands and asked her to greet Jacob from him, and to say that he, Ole Hoegseth, would not keep close account of these days Lisbeth was taking, since Jacob really needed to speak with his sister. He did not know, of course, that Peter had said the very same thing the evening before. And then she had given her animals over to Ole's care and had begun her long walk down the mountain.
Talk wid him he want to come in. What you t'ink?" "Nebber open gate, ole Plin, till mistress tell you. You stay here dere; lean ag'in gate wid all you might; dere; now I go call Miss Maud. She all alone in librarim, and will know what best. Mind you lean ag'in gate well, ole Plin."
And so Shocky, with his eyes looking straight ahead, and as if forgetting Ralph's presence, told over the thoughts that he had often talked over to the fence-rails and the trees. "It was real good in Mr. Pearson to take me, wasn't it? Else I'd a been bound out tell I was twenty-one, maybe, to some mean man like Ole Means. And I a'n't but seven.
Before setting off at his accustomed gallop, he paused to interrupt the Reverend Malloch Smith again. "You pull down your vest, you ole Billygoat, you!" he shouted, distinctly. "Pull down your vest, wipe off your chin an' go to hell!" Such precocity is less unusual, even in children of the Rich, than most grown people imagine.
"Well, we got to get this cat out o' here, haven't we?" Penrod demanded crossly. "What fer?" Herman asked. "Mighty mean cat! If it was me, I let 'at ole cat drownd." "My goodness," Penrod cried. "What you want to let it drown for? Anyways, we got to use this water in our house, haven't we? You don't s'pose people like to use water that's got a cat drowned in it, do you?
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