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But no matter how hard the little girl jerked her body from side to side, Sassy, by bending her neck, kept her head defiantly in one place. The little girl was at her wits' end. The biggest brother had specified that Sassy should be driven; but the leghorn would not drive.
The Indians turned their swarthy faces. "Hah! ain't she sassy?" cried Legget. Brandt looked at Helen, understood the meaning of her words, and laughed. But his face paled, and involuntarily his shifty glance sought the rocks and trees upon the ridge. "You played me from the first?" asked Mordaunt quietly. "I did," replied Brandt. "You meant nothing of your promise to help me across the border?"
The bobolink tried fer t' flirt with the bride in a way thet was sassy an' bold. An' the notes that he took as he shivered an' shook Hed a sound like the jingle of gold. He sat on a briar an' laughed at the choir an' said thet the music was old. The sexton he came Mr Spider by name a citizen hairy and grey. His rope in a steeple, he called the good people That live in the land o' the hay.
Wed., 16 days out. Made a great mistake when we started; was puzzled how to feed the spiders, mosquitoes, bedbugs, and such; turned them loose to hustle for themselves, and that's what they've done ever since Another pug disappeared last night; six left; gave Ham a talking to about getting drunk; was sassy and I boxed his ears; told him if I ever saw him drunk again aboard my ship I'd log him; he don't seem to care, but that's what I'll do every time Still hove to.
"Harry," said Professor Henderson, gravely, "how often have I told you not to be so unmannerly?" "He orter be whipped," said the old lady. "Ef I had a boy that was so sassy, I'd larn him manners!" "I'm glad I ain't your boy," Harry appeared to reply. "I declare I won't ride another step if you let him insult me so," said the old woman, glaring at our hero.
The little girl sprawled on the sunny side of a stack for an hour or two after that, and chewed straws. She pulled off her shoes to rest her stockingless feet, and put her head on Godfrey's damp side. For she had resolved to postpone the catching of Sassy till evening, when the elusive pullet would be sleepily seated on a two-by-four in the empty cow-stall that now served for a coop.
He's getting fat and sassy right now out in his coop behind the bungalow." "Well den!" cried Wash. "I done took him wid me, an' I done brought him back. Wot furder elimination ob de fac's does dem folks want? Don't Buttsy crowin' away dar prove it?" And Washington White walked off with his head held very high as though he had made a perfectly unanswerable statement of the case.
"I'm 'fraid I ain't as good as you make me out," she said despondently. "Oh, yes, she is," said Miss Hazy, with unusual animation; "she's a rale good girl, when she ain't sassy." This unexpected praise was too much for Lovey Mary. She snatched the letter from her pocket and threw it on the table, not daring to trust her good impulse to last beyond the minute.
It occurred to her, in the midst of her worry, that perhaps Sassy wanted to set. Accordingly she got ten eggs together, arranged them in a nest, caught the hen, and put her upon them. But here a new and unlooked-for thing happened. Sassy would not stay on the nest. Not at all daunted, the little girl procured a broad strip of calico and tied the hen down.
"I tell you what," Frank remarked, presently; "I honestly believe he's been kicked by the heels of my sassy little Buckskin; perhaps he's badly hurt; and then again, he may only have had the wind knocked out of him. That horse is as bad as any mule you ever saw, when it comes to planting his heels."
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