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"As soon as day broke I set up my shoutin' again, restin' every fifeteen minutes or so, and then takin' afresh start. About an hour after sun-up, jest as I had finished a long spell o' screechin', I thought I heerd a voice. I listened a bit with my heart thumpin' against my ribs. Thar war no sound; I yelled louder than ever, and then listened. Thar war a voice.
Again and again she came up to the great house to "crave consolatiom" from Miss Peggy, or Mammy Lucy, though, truth to tell, Mammy's sympathies were not very deeply enlisted. Minervy Jones did not move in the same SOCIAL SET in which Mammy held a dignified position: Mammy was "an emerged Baptis'"; Minervy a "Shoutin' Mefodist," and a strong feeling existed between the two little colored churches.
This is what happened behind the closed doors of Flint's study, and Flint was then Head of the Games: "Oh, I say, Flint. King has sent me to you for playin' marbles in the corridor an' shoutin' 'alley tor' an' 'knuckle down." "What does he suppose I have to do with that?" was the answer. "Dunno. Well?" Beetle grinned wickedly. "What am I to tell him? He's rather wrathy about it."
As he got up, muttering vengeance on whatever had upset him, he went to the door to look out. There was not a person in sight. "It must have been that pesky Bob Henderson!" he exclaimed. "He's always yellin' an' shoutin'." He turned back into the store, rubbing his shins. As he did so he uttered an exclamation of dismay.
If the Raines law gave the money extorted from the saloonkeepers to the city, there might be some excuse for the tax. We would get some benefit from it, but it gives a big part of the tax to local option localities where the people are always shoutin' that liquor dealin' is immoral. Ought these good people be subjected to the immoral influence of money taken from the saloon tainted money?
As he spoke he arose from his concealment, and the man on the other side of the bayou Dan was pretty certain now that it was a man stepped out into view, disclosing the well-known form and features of Godfrey Evans. Dan could hardly believe his eyes, and even Godfrey seemed a little doubtful. "Is that you, Dannie?" asked the latter. "You're just a shoutin'," was the reply.
"Of course," continued the Old Cattleman, "of course while thar's some like this Yallerhouse gent who survives; thar's others of the boys who is downed one time an' another, an' goes shoutin' home to heaven by various trails. But ontil the event I now recalls, the remainders has been freighted east or west every time, an' the camp gets left.
Instantly Laz became animated, but without a change of countenance: "Say, ricolleck that feller lived over our way, had a white hoss one day come along and " The cup ran over. "You ain't very good at shoutin', air you?" "Whoa," said Laz. Jasper tilted the jug to his own lips and Laz drained the cup. Starbuck made a motion with the jug toward Margaret and she shook her head with a shudder.
"I'll go and do a bit of shoutin' to Spruce, deaf as he is, he's more reasonable-like than his old 'ooman!" With this resolve, he went his way by a short-cut through Abbot's Manor gardens to a small thatched shelter in the woods, known as 'the foresters' hut, where Spruce was generally to be found at about sunset, smoking a peaceful pipe, alone and well out of his wife's way.
Towards evenin' I heard a most an awful yell, and looked round, and there was Eb shoutin' and screamin' at the tip eend of his voice, and a jumpin' up and down, as if he had been bit by a rattlesnake. "'What in natur is the matter of you, Eb? sais I. 'What are you a makin' such an everlastin' touss about? But the more I asked, the more he wouldn't answer.
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