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There is an immense show of grief, with keening and crocodiles' tears, perhaps to benefit the living by averting a charge of witchcraft, which would inevitably lead to "Sassy" or poison-water. The wake continues for five days, when they "pull the cry," that is to say, end mourning. If these pious rites be neglected, the children incur the terrible reproach, "Your father he be hungry."
Yer ma's got comp'ny for dinner and dat sassy Marthy-Ann done tuk herself to 'Mancipation-Day, an' Jin, she totin of Mis' May's baby to sleep, an' I ain't got no time to wase on yer. Go'long!" And as she spoke Mammy arose, chicken in hand, and went into the kitchen to get whatever the boys wanted, as they were perfectly aware she would, from the beginning. "Lawd o' mussy!
He wasted no further time, but hurried to his store, a saddle-roofed building farther along the street. Before it paced a Fort Lincoln officer. Lounsbury stopped him for news. "You ought to be chuck full of it," returned the officer, pumping the storekeeper's arm; "just in from New York." "The redskins?" "Daytime sortie on us yesterday." "Pretty sassy. How about Brannon?"
His last words to me was that if I wouldn't listen to reason then he'd have to try other ways. And he warned me that he should try 'em. I said go ahead and try, or words not quite so sassy but meanin' the same. And out he marched. Oh, Emily, WHAT do you suppose he'll try? He can't MAKE me sell out, can he? Oh, dear! Oh, dear! here's more trouble. And I thought there was enough already!"
"I guess that's what made me sassy to you this morning!" It was his sole apology. They both laughed, accepting it as such, and Adelle, to shift the topic, remarked, "You've got a nice place up here for your house." The mason wrinkled his lips against the suggestion of sentiment. "The shack's all right kind of fur to tote supplies over the hill. But I can't stand those dagoes and their dirty ways.
He regarded the cash to be paid in hand as just so much money accidentally found in his pathway, for which, in no event, was he to render any quid pro quo. But of this he said nothing. It was not his business to look after the interests of a "sassy nigger."
Beulah's was filled with alarm, little Evert and savage massacres suddenly crossing the sensitive mind of the young mother; while Maud's tone had much of the stern resolution that she had summoned to sustain her in a moment of such fearful trial. "Yes, Nick Sassy Nick," repeated the Indian, in his guttural voice "Ole friend you no glad see him?"
Guy Rivers has plenty to eat, but he cursed Chub's mother." "Well, show us where he is, and we'll give you plenty to eat. Plenty of potatoes and corn," was the promise of the party. "And build up Chub's house that the fire burnt? Chub lives in the tree now. Guy Rivers' man burnt Chub's house, 'cause he said Chub was sassy."
"Ye couldn't kill that there Cameron boy, I tell ye! He is as sassy a young'un as there is in this county." Doctor Davison turned as though to say something sharp to the mean old man; but just then the men below shouted up to him: "He's hit his head and his arm's twisted under him, Doctor. He isn't conscious, but doesn't seem much hurt otherwise." "Can you bring him up?" queried the physician.
"He went on, preachin' about business shrewdness and how it paid, and how mean and tricky in little deals we Rubes was, and yet we didn't appreciate how to manage big things, till I got kind of sick of it. "'Look here, Mr. Williams, says I, 'you know how I make my money what little I do make or you say you do. Now, if it ain't a sassy question, how did you make yours?
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