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The youngest one was puttin' the cat into the water-pitcher, an' as soon as I found out what his name was, I called him sharp by it an' told him to quit. He put his tongue out at me as sassy as you please, an' says: 'I won't.
Den Grégor, he git up an come out o’ de room, he coat ’crost he arm, an’ de pistols a stickin’ out an him lookin’ sassy tell ev’y body make way, same ef he ben Jay Goul’. Ef he look one o’ ’em in de eye dey outs wid, ‘Howdy, Grégor how you come on, Grégor?’ jis’ uz pelite uz a peacock, an’ him neva take no trouble to yansa ’em.
Sure as anything I saw a puff of smoke then. There must be something the matter with their engine, and they're getting scared. I wouldn't be surprised a mite to see them settle right away, and try to land." "Well, you saw smoke all right, and if you'd listened sharp, you'd have heard a sassy little bark at the same time, Andy." "A what, Frank?" "Call it a snarl, then.
'Jes' thought I'd buy this fer fun, said he, holding it down to the firelight. 'Dummed if I ever see the like uv it. Whoa! he shouted, as the cover flew open, releasing a jumping-jack. 'Quicker n a grasshopper! D'ye ever see sech a sassy little critter? Then he handed it to Elizabeth. 'Wish ye Merry Christmas, Dave Brower! said he. 'Ain't as merry as I might be, said David.
So, with Sassy under her arm once more, she toiled up the grassy slope. While she was lying beside the pile, worried and distraught, with the leghorn at close quarters throwing up dirt and pebbles, the air became so ominously and deathly still that the little girl and Sassy fairly gasped for breath. Over the grass tops the heat halted and lay in long, faintly visible waves, like a ghostly sea.
Rogers got scared. "Look here," says he, staring sort of wild-like at the boarders. "What ails you folks? Are you crazy?" Well, he might have made a good deal worse guess than that. I don't know how 'twould have ended if Peter T. Brown, cool and sassy as ever, hadn't come on deck just then and took command. "See here, Rogers," he says, "let's understand this thing.
Jordan, does yo' know what's der matter wid ye? "I told her I didn't; thet I'd give a band o' cattle ter find out. "'Laws, says she, 'I'd tell cheaper'n dat, only yo'd think I is sassy. "I said: 'Aunty, yo' goahead. If yo's sassy, I's too sick to care. "'Why, bless yo' soul, honey, says she, 'yo's jest ded in lub wid the schoolma'm, Mrs. Margaret. I noze. I's been dar myself.
And the Cap'n, impressed by the logic of the advice, and stung by the manner in which Hiram had emphasized "sassy questions," pulled the peak of his cap over his eyes, and became for once more in his life the autocrat of the quarter-deck.
As if we hadn't had enough things happen without your cuttin' up, too!" "Hold your tongue, John Benton, you sassy boy. As sure as I'm alive, I saw the ghost of Antonio Bernal peeking in at that open window afore I shut it. He was so white I couldn't tell him from paper, and so thin I 'peared to see clean through him." "Pshaw, mother! You're overtired, and for once in your life really nervous.
Lowe give ye a pointer on settin' 'round watchin' other folks work." She raised her voice for Parker's benefit. "He come out here fer his health, an' he's gettin' so fat an' sassy he has to live by 'imself." Parker's appreciation of this brilliant sally seemed to threaten the underpinning of the kitchen. Eben smiled up into his daughter's face as he lathered his hairy hands.
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