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Did a bee sting him?" "No, Grandpa. But he he's like the circus man, only he says he isn't playin' he is a circus. He's upside down in the tree, and he's a wigglin' an' a wogglin' an' he can't get down, an' his face is all red an' he wants you, an' an' " "My goodness me!" exclaimed Grandpa Brown, setting on the ground his basket, now half full of peaches. "What is that boy up to now?"
Miller would look up from her sewin' and say, "Read that over, Robert, I lost that," and that would be when the children made such a noise you couldn't hear nothin'. So when we got to the house, there was Mr. Miller, readin' English history to Mrs. Miller, and the children already playin' blind man's buff, and makin' a terrible noise, though it was before supper.
"'All right, says Boggs, tappin' his shirt with his pistol-finger; 'you-all knows me an' Cherokee. We're in on this yere any time you says. "So a band of us sorter camps along with Jack an' the infant ontil mebby it's second-drink time at night. The infant don't raise the war-yell once; jest takes it out in goat's milk; an' in laughin', an' playin' with Jack's gun.
And sure enough, shipmates, when we went aft and had a look for ourselves, there was two sharks just playin' about under the starn, scullin' here and there, lazy-like, but never goin' very far away. "I told the mate of this, and p'inted out the brutes to him; but he didn't seem a bit put out by it; he just laughed and said:
They ain't passed no law against it yet. But " "Oh, be still, Zach Bloomer! You're always talkin' about my playin' the mouth organ. I notice you can't play anything, no, nor sing neither." "You're right, Pansy Blossom. But the difference between you and me is that I know I can't.... Hey? Why, yes, Martha, I shouldn't be a bit surprised if the fog came in any time.
Off to the jail with 'em march 'em along!" "Beg pardon, sir," interrupted the sergeant who was glad of an excuse to stop at a very difficult bit of spelling. "We'll have to wait a bit. I hear the Queen's band playin' " "Then stand at attention and hold yourself answerable for the prisoners!"
He hesitated for a moment, until he saw that he could not well evade giving me an answer, and then answered with the simple word "Niggers." "It 'ud be no use playin' hide and seek about it, lad. You must 'a found it out in time the Pandora's no merchantman she be a trader a regular slaver." "Oh, Ben," I said, appealingly, "is it not a terrible life to lead?"
"It was just a game of dare they was playin', an' the stick gettin' shorter an' shorter an' the panther madder 'n madder. Bimeby they wa'n't no stick left only a nubbin, about four inches long, an' it was Rocky's turn. 'Better quit now, says Harry. 'What for? says Rocky. 'Because if you rap him again they won't be no stick left for me, Harry answers.
Sure, I've twice seen an Eastern maverick driftin' into a faro game, an' by fools' luck cleanin' up the bank." "If a man's a fool who depends on luck, what kind of a fool is the man who depends on fools' luck? You ain't playin' a square deal, Bob-Cat, in supportin' the lad to go on askin' to do what ain't good for him. But seein' you force my hand, why, you'd better go ahead now."
I heared Violy say, plain as day, 'I don't keer what you say, mother, he swore to me he never plays except fer fun. An' Rachel Gwyn, she sez, 'There ain't no setch thing as playin' fer fun in that place, so don't talk foolish. That's all I heared 'em say, an' they ain't spoke a word sence." "Come along, Stain," said Kenneth, starting forward.
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