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"Look-a-here, Professor," he retorted, "I ain't feelin' any too pert right now, and I'll take a hop out o' you if you don't shet up!" The Professor looked grieved. "What's the matter of you?" he inquired. "Never you mind!" The knife went back to the leather again. "Let that horse roll if he wants to! It ain't any skin off your hands!" Which was the key-note of all assembled save the Professor.
Brer Fox, he so smart, he holler out, he did, en say he lay Brer Rabbit got de groun'-eatch, but Brer Rabbit, he sorter shet one eye, he did, en say, sezee: "'I bin so useter ridin' hoss-back, ez deze ladies knows, dat I'm gittin' sorter tender-footed; en dey don't hear much mo' fum Brer Fox dat day, kaze he 'member how Brer Rabbit done bin en rid him; en hit 'uz des 'bout much ez Miss Meadows en de gals could do fer ter keep der snickers fum gittin' up a 'sturbance 'mong de congregashun.
Her face then, with its dead whiteness and the eyes of flame, held a tragic, impelling beauty that stung Anson into remonstrance. "Aw, Riggs, don't beat up the kid," he protested. "Thet won't do any good. Let her alone." "But she's got to shut up," replied Riggs. "How 'n hell air you goin' to shet her up? Mebbe if you get out of her sight she'll be quiet.... How about thet, girl?"
He could even tolerate "Red's" harmonica; in fact, he often begged him to play it when the latter came over to midday dinner, and his legs had so improved that he could actually jiggle them to some merry tune. "If you don't look out, you'll be dancin' soon!" "Red" used to say on these happy occasions. "You can shimmy now!" "Shet your head!" Uncle Henry cried; but not angrily not now.
The descendants of them folks you driv round can stand here and poke fun at you all day and you've got to keep your mouth shet. Yes," sez he, "you've got to a place now where you can't be yellin' out your orders, you've got to be mum, for you're a mummy."
"En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house. W'en he got dar, Brer Rabbit wuz spectin' un 'im, en de do' wuz shet fas'. Brer Fox knock. Nobody ain't ans'er. Brer Fox knock. Nobody ans'er. Den he knock agin blam! blam! Den Brer Rabbit holler out mighty weak: 'Is dat you, Brer Fox? I want you ter run en fetch de doctor.
"Ye got to git erway from here I tell ye," Solomon insisted. Scott stroked his sandy beard and answered: "I guess I know my business 'bout as well as you do." "Le's go back to Cherry Valley, Bill," the woman urged. "Oh, keep yer trap shet," Scott said to her. "He's as selfish as a he-bear," said Solomon as he and Jack were leaving soon after daylight. "Don't think o' nuthin' but gittin' rich.
Tells me to make a image o' dat old witch outa dough, an tie dat string roun its neck; den when I bake it in de oven, it swell up an de magic string shet off her breath. I didn't have no ten dollar, so he say ifen I git up five dollar he make me a hand you know, what collored folks cals a jack. Dat be a charm what will keep de witches away.
Chief, please let me go home, and I'll pay you whatever you ask!" said Joe, to the tallest of the savages. The Indian, if he did not understand his captive's words, seemed to comprehend his terrors, and was much diverted at his ludicrous expression of features. "Oh pray! good Mr. Chief " "Keep your mouth shet! They'll never git through torturing us, if you let 'em know you're afraid," said Sneak.
It is but the common destiny of man." "Well, stranger, it's been myen; an' I've hed reezun to be sorry for it. But it's no use tryin' to shet up the stable arter the hoss's been stole out o't. She are gone now; an' that's the end o' it. I reckon I'll niver set eyes on her agin."
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