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Bimeby he hear somebody call 'im, en way up de hill he see Brer Rabbit settin' cross-legged on a chinkapin log koamin' de pitch outen his har wid a chip. Den Brer Fox know dat he bin swop off mighty bad.
An' Barney sthruggled a bit till he got a fair grip iv it, d'ye see, but by the sivin pipers that played before Moses, he couldn't see the way to answer this big word of the Englishman; so he says, says he, 'Musha, 'twas me father's way, rest his sowl, says he. 'An' would I be settin' meself up to be bettherin' his larnin'? says he.
"'I'll have the law on him! he shouted, rampagin' round my kitchen like a wild animal. I'll show that boy o' yours if he can go round settin' folks' barns on fire an' not get come up with! I'll give him a taste o' what it feels like to be behind bars. It's time somethin' was done, an', by Jerry, I'm the one to do it!
Now, there she's settin', right at the pianny, and sort of lettin' her fingers run up and down " "Tra-la-loo-loo, loo-loo-la-la?" said Dan Anderson. "Sure. That's just it. Tra-la-la-loo, loo-la-la-la, up and down the whole shootin' match. And she sings! Now what does she sing? That song about Gingerbread? That Mobile song? No, not none.
An' we wasn't in no haste, anyhow, t' make Sinners' Tickle, for we was the first schooner down the Labrador that season, an' 'twas pick an' choose your berth for we, with a clean bill t' every head from Starvation Cove t' the Settin' Hen, so quick as the fish struck.
Quite unconsciously Nance began to keep time. It was such glorious fun playing at being animals and fairies in the woods at night. Without realizing what she was doing, she dropped into what she used to call in the old sweat-shop days, "dancin' settin' down."
Them that had errands made it a p'int to cruise past that way. Lots of the boarders had got wind of the doin's, and they was there, too. "Effie was settin' on her trunk, tryin' hard to look brave. I went up and spoke to her. "'Come, my girl, says I. 'Don't set here no longer. Come into the house and wait. Hadn't you better? "'No! says she, loud and defiant like. 'No, sir! It's all right.
Now, I reckon you got sense enough not to get mad when I tell you that I just been tryin' out a little speech I framed up for my constituents. Just a kind of little alfalfa-seed talk. Outside of ijuts and Mexicans, it's about what I aim to hand to the voters of this here district, puttin' it up to them that I was roped into this hocus and been settin' back on the rope right along.
He leaned over the front of the car and hit the horse a loud slap, with the ends of his reins. "Gee! You bet Eb Flanders is madder than a settin' hen!" "Who is he?" said I. Which was guile on my part. "He's constable. He caught the burglars, y'know, right in the face 'n eyes of two policemen from Lanesport. An' when they got away, Eb pretty near bust his biler.
Anyhow, although 'twas long past our reg'lar dinner time, I heard Jonadab tellin' 'em sure and sartin they could. If they wouldn't mind settin' on the piazza or in the front parlor for a spell, he'd have somethin' prepared in a jiffy. So up to the piazza they paraded and come to anchor in a couple of chairs. "'You can have your automobile put right into the barn, I says, 'if you want to.
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