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"I've been terr'ble anxious 'bout it ever sence that tramp come to town, an' now sence you've seen an' talked with him, an' I know that he's runnin' 'round loose still, I must go take a look. That's the worst o' prope'ty, it's a dreadful care." "But it must be just delightful to own such a cute little cottage as yours, all vines and trees "
I believe this ground is worth more for the gold that's in it than for the turnips you can make grow on top and that there makes mineral land of it, and as such, open to entry. That's accordin' to law. I ain't goin' to build no trouble but I sure do aim to defend my prope'ty rights if I have to. I realize yuh may think diffrunt from me.
"Well, now, I calc'late my prope'ty is might' nigh as important as Luck's pitcher-making," Applehead contended with a selfishness born of his newly awakened hunger for the far distances. "And he ain't sent ary word that he's coming, or will need you boys immediate. The chances is we could go and git back agin before Luck shows up.
"Gentlemen," he cried, "I have heah two sisters, the prope'ty of the late Mistah Robe't Benbow, of St. Louis, as fine a pair of wenches as was ever offe'd to the public from these heah steps " "Speak for the handsome gal," cried a wag. "Sell off the cart hoss fust," said another.
We've eaten all the mules and rats and sugar cane in town." Whereupon he drew from his hip a dented silver flask. The Colonel remarked that Stephen's eyes fell on the coat of arms. "Prope'ty of my grandfather, seh, of Washington's Army. My name is Jennison, Catesby Jennison, at your service, seh," he said. "You have the advantage of me, Captain." "My name is Brice," said Stephen.
More than one man among the passers-by, glancing at Tom Robinson surrounded by a group of pretty girls, the two prettiest evidently making much of him and hanging on his words, called him in their minds "lucky dog," and speculated on the nature of the attraction. "'Prope'ty, prope'ty, prope'ty," no doubt. It was disgraceful to see how mercenary even quite young women were getting.
"Mister Candidate, you better move on and give these men a chancet to save their prope'ty," she cried shrilly. "They got something to do besides stand around here and listen at you throwin' campaign loads. The hull country's afire back of us, and the wind bringin' it down on a long lope."
"Gentlemen," he cried, "I have heah two sisters, the prope'ty of the late Mistah Robe't Benbow, of St. Louis, as fine a pair of wenches as was ever offe'd to the public from these heah steps " "Speak for the handsome gal," cried a wag. "Sell off the cart hoss fust," said another.
"Laid out theyuh lines across my prope'ty? Japheth, faveh me by riding down to the furnace and askin' Caleb Gordon if he will do me the honor to come up heah this evenin', if he can. I I it's twenty yeahs and mo' since I've troubled the law cou'ts of ouh po', Yankee-ridden country with any affai-ah of mine; and now well, I don't know I don't know," with a despondent shake of the leonine head.
His woolly hair is white, and his eyes very bright. He wears a small grizzled mustache. He is always clean and neatly dressed. "Miss, you can count up for yo'se'f. I was born on October 11, 1833. My young Marster give me my age when he heired de prope'ty of his uncle, Marse W.B. Withers. He was a-goin' through de papers an' a-burnin' some of 'em when he foun' de one 'bout me.
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