United States or Anguilla ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Aye," responded he of the apostolic claim, "I'm an undertaker but times is dull. I was an undertaker ten year in Lockerby, but I left there lang syne. I had ae fine customer, the bailie; he had eleven o' a family. But I lost his trade. The bailie was sick an' my laddie, wee Sandy, was aye plaguin' me for a sled. I tell't him I'd get him ane when I had mair siller.
"Um-hm, so you might. . . . Well, there have been times when if a man had talked to me as Labe did to-night I'd have knocked him down, or told him to go to um well, the tropics told him to mind his own business, at least. But Labe is Labe, and besides MY conscience was plaguin' me a little mite, maybe . . . maybe." The young man shook his head.
Folks never did git through plaguin' him about goin' off to boardin' school, and as soon as Sam Crawford seen him he says, 'Well, Uncle Bob, when do you reckon you'll git your diploma? "I never shall forgit the first time Annie come home to spend her Christmas.
We will see to you ourselves. Fight which you will us or the enemy you'll never lie in that cot again, and there's more glory and maybe less kicks from fightin' the enemy. That's fair speakin'." "And he told us by word of mouth to go and join with the niggers you've forgotten that, Dan," said Horse Egan, to justify sentence. "What's the use of plaguin'' the man? One shot pays for all.
What does a body have childern fur? To get no use out of 'em? It ain't no good you're plaguin' me. I ain't leavin' her go. Tillie!" he commanded the child with a twirl of his thumb and a motion of his head; "go set the supper-table!" Margaret laid her arm about Tillie's shoulder. "Well, dear," she said sorrowfully, "we must give it all up, I suppose. But don't lose heart, Tillie.
'And he told us by word of mouth to go and join with the niggers you've forgotten that, Dan, said Horse Egan, to justify sentence. 'What's the use of plaguin' the man? One shot pays for all. Sleep ye sound, Mulcahy. But you onderstand, do ye not?
"When Miss Waite came here to teach, I hadn't ever had no friend except the girls here, and they wasn't bad, but we was always runnin' wild around in the lots, and down to shore, and always laughin' and plaguin' the teacher in school. And when Miss Waite came, she wasn't like you, nor she didn't have such clothes, nor such ways as yours.
"Oh, yes," plunged in Benny; "'cause, you see, if yer stop ter think about it this thing that's plaguin' ye you'll see how really small an' no-account it is, an' how, when you put it beside really big things it doesn't matter at all it doesn't REALLY matter, ye know. Aunt Maggie says she's done it years an' years, ever since she was just a girl, an' somethin' bothered her; an' it's helped a lot."
After dinner Emily retired to her room for a nap. She did so under protest, declaring that she was not tired, but Thankful insisted. "If you ain't tired now you will be when the excitement's over," she said. "My conscience is plaguin' me enough about fetchin' you on this cruise, as it is. Just take it as easy as you can, Emily. Lie down and rest, and please me." So Emily obeyed orders and Mrs.
Why Cleopatra's voice might have been stored up as she made love to Antony, or the voice of the relation on her own side, old Mr. Pharo himself orderin' the Hebrews to git out of his premises, and their back talk about plaguin' him till he wuz willin' they should go.
Word Of The Day