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When dark come, de men folks would hang up a wash pot, bottom up'ards, in de little brush church-house us had, so's it would catch de noise an' de oberseer wouldn' hear us singin' an' shoutin'. Dey didn' min' us meetin' in de day time, but dey thought iffen we stayed up ha'f de night we wouldn' work so hard de nex' day an' dat was de truf. "You should'a seen some of de niggers get 'ligion.
Start the folks in this city off on notions inspired by anemic woodwork, an' the sight o' so much purity would set 'em off sniveling on their women-folk's bosoms, and give 'emselves internal chills shoutin' fer ice water at O'Brien's bar.
'I work doon the pit, he replied, 'an' earns a good wage, but whiles I tires ov it an' longs for a walk up the hedgerows, to hear the partridge call and the pheasant shoutin' as he gans up to roost, an' to say to myself, "Aha, my fine fellow, but thoo'll be i' my bag to-morrow night, an' in my kite the night after that." He paused a moment, then asked suspiciously, 'Thoo'll not blab thoo'll not tell the police?
"I stepped down pretty nigh to the brim o' the mud an' tossed 'em out to him. Three fell short in my hurry, but the rest he got hold of somehow. "'That's right, he calls, hoarse and low, 'they'll think egg-stealin' nateral to a low family like our'n. Now back to your room undress an' cry out, sayin', there's a man shoutin' for help down 'pon the mud; and, dear, be quick!
And then agin, we'd float by an island where there would be lots of white tents, with wimmen and children and men and boys standin' out wavin' their handkerchiefs and shoutin' to us, good natered and sociable.
When he's carryin' my kale he'll be shoutin' hallelooyah with a big joy pill under his belt. "I furgets all about ole man Sanford bein' there. You don't talk about hoppin' one with strangers listening but he's around so much I never thinks. All of a sudden he's standin' in front of me lookin' like there's somethin' hurtin' him. "'What's the matter, Mr. Sanford? I says.
Rathburn's right hand and wrist moved with incredible swiftness, and Brown found himself staring into the black bore of a six-gun. Still he saw the eyes above the weapon. His face blanched. "There are six winning cards in my right hand," Rathburn said slowly. "You can start shoutin' for those hundred men you mentioned just as soon as you want.
Out at the depot on Bean Blossom Crick Sol Pringle has the say about everything. He knows when the trains come and when they go, and what goes into 'em. This seems to be a betwixt and between place, neither pork nor bacon, I don't like it at all, I always want things straight either one thing or t'other reg'ler close communion, total-immersion Babtist, or free-for-all, shoutin' Methodist."
Wallace gave it up, but he had a remedy for the situation, at least in part. "Son," he said, abruptly, "you and Dave are hired. You-all are goin' to trail along with this lady and see that she comes out all right. If she's with her husband, there ain't no cause for scandal. But if this De Launay feller gets anyways gay, you-all just puts his light out. You hear me!" "You're shoutin', pop.
He figured to cash in, I reckon, but he's been grabbin' up everything he could lay his hands on, on the way." "You'll be tellin' Barbara, now?" suggested Harlan. "You're shoutin'!" said Morgan, his eyes glowing. "I'm hittin' the breeze to the Rancho Seco for fair." He looked at Haydon, and his eyes took on a new expression. "I was almost forgettin' what the governor sent me here for," he added.
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