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About a week after that we were at High Point again, conveying some arrested conscripts to Raleigh, when train load after train load of Federal prisoners passed going from Chickamauga to Richmond. The trains stopped and we talked with those western prisoners and found them very sassy and determined about the Union.
The Northern man enthusiastically prophesied the rapid rise and miraculous development of the colored race under the impetus of free schools and free thought. The Southern man only saw in it a prospect of more "sassy niggers," like Nimbus, who was "a good enough nigger, but mighty aggravating to the white folks."
"I hope," he said to Frank, "that you'll have better luck nor me. Neb wouldn't open that door for me." "Dem was yo' ohduhs, suh," said Neb, appealing to his master. "An' he was powerful sassy in the bargain," Holton went on, full of malice, hoping to make Neb suffer for defying him.
If all the race were of his stamp there would be more hope." "The devil!" returned the sheriff, with a sneering laugh, "if they were all like him, a white man couldn't live in the country. They'd be so damned sassy and important that we'd have to kill the last one of 'em to have any peace."
He was outrageously sassy, and I had to give him a lesson to keep a civil tongue in his head. Take a seat. I'll send for him." "No; I'll go and see him," said the General. "Where is he?" With a foreboding that the scene was going to be made unpleasant for him, Billings led the General into the guard-room.
I'm a nateral born hog, and I eat with all four feet in the trough. Underline that, it's good. 'I'm big, an sassy, an' full o' meanness, but what sand I've got ain't to be seen with a double-barrelled microscope. I'm as false as Judas; an' Ananias wouldn't be seen walkin' arm in arm with me in the place whar I'd oughter be to-night.
Jed was speechless. Babbitt, looking like a triumphantly vicious Bantam rooster, crowed on. "You don't seem to be quite so sassy and talky as you was when I first came in, Shavin's," he sneered. "Guess likely YOU ain't feelin' well now . . . eh? Do you remember what I told you last time I was in this shop? I told you I'd pay my debts to you and Sam Hunniwell if I waited fifty year.
So, until the next spring, the spring following the fire, and one ever memorable for its wonderful grass and flowers, its gentle rains and windless, sunny days, Sassy continued to exasperate the family, winning only censure.
There had been no twins in her imaginings, yet here was Algernon already set upon the way; Algernon, who would be naughty in that blissful place, and who might even "talk sassy" to the beautiful ladies. Slow tears of disappointment grew under Leah's heavy lids and splashed upon the coveted ticket.
It won't hurt him now; he can do it. Oh, well. Here now, Mickey, don't you get sassy. One run more this afternoon. The Dogs run two or three times a day; why not the Jack?" "They're not shtakin' thayre loives, sor." "Oh, you get out."
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