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"Thet was a woman's scream," replied Wilson, and he appeared to be shaking like a leaf in the wind. "Then I figgered right the kid's alive wonderin' around an' she let out thet orful scream," said Anson. "Wonderin' 'round, yes but she's daid!" "My Gawd! it ain't possible!" "Wal, if she ain't wonderin' round daid she's almost daid," replied Wilson. And he began to whisper to himself.
I never could help always liking him arter that it made me feel so orful narvous and religious like. Why, what on yarth be you grinning at agin, Isaac? jest for all the world like a monkey for?" "Nothing, mother," answered Isaac, nearly choking with smothered laughter; "only I war jest kind o' thinking what a kind comforter Mr.
As for Harry, he drove the horse hack to the stable until noon, when he was to call for his mother on his way from school with Ally and Cornelia. "Why, Judy, we came to see you; I thought that if you were sick, I could perhaps comfort you." "Wal, I has been sick wid de rheumatiz. O marcy! I'se had sich orful pains all through me, and dats de reason I didn't cum last night.
But if you want to set me free so bery bad, and feel so 'stremely bad 'bout my sitiation, if you'll jist walk into de house, an' offer to buy me ob my Master, you can get me, I 'spect, because I ain't one ob de best niggers in the world, an' I'll jist try dis freedom you talk ob, for awhile. "'Buy you! sez he, wavin' of his white hand at an orful rate, 'nebber!
"Have you got anything to bale her out with?" "Well, Master Bob," observed Dick, grinning, "fur a young gen'leman as is so sharp, you've got a orful bad mem'ry! Don't 'ee recollect the booket as ye helped me fur to wash down the decks wi' this very marnin'?"
My decision is made; the onor of my famly commands it. I must put an end to my suferins. Make no remarks upon my conduct, Henry; it is orful, I know, but my condition obliges me. Without help, without suport, without one frend to comfort me, can I live? No. Fate has desided for me. So in two days, Henry, two days, Ida will have seased to be worthy of your regard.
Arter de war war ober I had a little money, an' I war gwine ter rent a plantation on sheers an' git out a good stan' ob cotton. Cotton war bringin' orful high prices den, but Lindy said to me, 'Now, John, you'se got a lot ob money, an' you'd better salt it down. I'd ruther lib on a little piece ob lan' ob my own dan a big piece ob somebody else's.
"If you git down sick, it would be a' orful drain on me," was Miss Hazy's final argument, and the point was effective. As Lovey Mary trudged along the railroad-tracks, she was unconscious of the pleasant changes of scenery. The cottages became less frequent, and the bare, dusty commons gave place to green fields.
"To attend to the Indians of this Agency when they are sick," replied the Agent, promptly. "Wall, thet's what I heern; thet's what yeow sed afore, 'n' thet's why Alessandro, the Injun thet wuz murdered, thet's why he put his name down 'n yeour books, though 't went agin him orful ter do it.
Rather a dreadful face it was, with wide-open, staring eyes protruding through a stiffening mask of gore. The teeth grinned, revealed by the livid, drawn-back lips, and how she knew him again in such a orful styte she couldn't tell you not if you offered her pounds and pounds to say
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