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Old Mat paid out five sovereigns into the other's outstretched paw. "Four sovereigns for the mare and a half for the halter, and a little bit o' beer-money." The crowd cheered and the gypsy danced a jig. "You're a gentleman, Mr. Woodburn," he cried. "Now I'll tell you somefin for yourself." He drew the old man aside and whispered in his ear, ending with an emphatic: "S'truth, sir!"
"What's de matteh wid dem b'iled pertaters, suh?" "Matter with them? Nothing! They are fine." "Well, den, suh, if dere ain't nothin' de matteh wid de vittels, dere suttinly mus' be somefin de matteh wid you, Marse Kenneth. Yo' all ain't etten enough fo' to fill a grasshoppeh." "I am not hungry," apologized his master, quite humbly. "'Cause why?
"Land, no!" cried Candace, recovering the doll in alarm; "I'd never sleep a week o' nights ef I didn't put dat yere doll into dat bressed child's arms." "Then I'll tell Phronsie to come over to-morrow," said Polly. "Shall I, Candace?" "Yes," said Candace, "you tell her I got somefin' fer her; don't you tell her what, an' send her along." "All right," said Jasper.
They wuz good an' wide, an' I lay down keerful. The folks kep' me hitched up nigh an hour 'fore they started; an' larfed why, they all but lay down themselves with larfin'. Say, Boney, if you've got to be hitched to anything that goes on wheels, you've got to be hitched with somefin'." "Go an' jine a circus," said Muldoon, "an' walk on your hind legs.
The deaf fat chap at Benson's arst him what time this might be. Billy said he disremembered th' time mebbe it wor ten or a bit past. Then the fat chap said it wor just about that time the same night, as he wor shuttin' up, he saw somefin white float up to th' top of th' pit.
I said it over and over so as to remember, and have forgotten it after all." "It was somefin like the name of a sweety," said Poppy, racking her brain so hard she brought a frown to her brow. "Was it somefin drop, or rock, or " "I know it was something like Edinburgh Rock." "Plymouth Rock, perhaps," said Miss Ashe's voice, close behind them.
It grew darker; the gray afternoon was wearing away with keen gusts and fitful snow-falls. Dode looked up wearily: a sharp exclamation, rasped out by Aunt Perrine, roused her. "Dead? Dougl's dead?" "Done gone, Mist'. I forgot dat ter tell yer. Had somefin' else ter tink of." "Down in the gully?" "Saw him lyin' dar as I went ter git Flynn's cart ter ter bring Mars' Joe, yer know, home. Gone dead.
And he pointed to the footprints in the snow; "somefin done tole Hugo not come to-day." "Nonsense!" I cried; "Mr. Wiley is making his lazy beggars cut wood against Christmas." When in this temper the poor fellow had more fear of me than of aught else, and he closed up to my horse's flank, glancing apprehensively to the right and left, his teeth rattling. We went at a brisk trot.
"You never worked a bit in the night time, Aunt Peggy," said Phillis; "and you know it." "Worked all time," said Aunt Peggy, "niggers aint made for nothin else. Now, kase Death's somewhar, wantin somefin, thinks it must be me." "I didn't say 'twas you, Aunt Peggy," said Phillis. "Wants somefin," said Aunt Peggy. "Tell you what, Phillis," and she laughed, "wants Miss Alice."
I go and look for her," said Katie. But just as she had opened the door for that purpose her eyes fell upon the figure of the viscount, creeping with stealthy, silent, cat-like steps towards the apartments of Mrs. Dugald, in which he disappeared. "Ah ha! dat's somefin' else. Somefin' goin' on in dere.
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