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"Ef you'll notiss," said Dan, with a large parental softness, "she never lets herself out to onst like them mules or any jackass ez I've heerd of, but kinder holds herself in, and, so to speak, takes her bearings sorter feels round gently with that off foot, takes her distance and her rest, and then with that ar' foot hoverin' round in the air softly, like an angel's wing, and a gentle, dreamy kind o' look in them eyes, she lites out!
My name is Skinner Amelia Skinner." Anne was eventually tucked in, exchanging amused smiles with herself during the process. "Jog along, black mare," commanded Mrs. Skinner, gathering up the reins in her pudgy hands. "This is my first trip on the mail rowte. Thomas wanted to hoe his turnips today so he asked me to come. So I jest sot down and took a standing-up snack and started. I sorter like it.
Somebody in Tanglefoot the Lord only knows who showed Tolhurst that underground way out ter Greenbrier Cove, through a sorter cave or tunnel in the mountings." "Now now neighbor that's guesswork," remonstrated the miller, in behalf of Tanglefoot Cove repudiating the responsibility.
Brer Rabbit, he sot dar in de cheer smokin' his seegyar, en he sorter cle'r up his th'oat, en say, sezee: "I'd er rid 'im over dis mawnin', ladies, sezee, but I rid 'im so hard yistiddy dat he went lame in de off fo' leg, en I speck I'll hatter swop 'im off yit, sezee.
I speck I done gone an' done it dis time, sho. Hit's bin sorter growin' on me, an' it come ter a head dis mawnin', 'less my name ain't Remus, an' dat's w'at dey bin er callin' me sence I wuz ole er 'nuff fer ter scratch myse'f wid my lef' han'." "Well, if you've killed a man, you'll have some fun, sure enough. How was it?"
And I think you'll find him somewhere in the hills. That's all I can tell you now." "Him and this young McCrae is tillikums, they tell me," the sheriff suggested. "You think maybe they've met up?" "They may. There's a chance of it." The sheriff considered. "This McCrae is a leetle mite headstrong, I'm told. Sorter apt to act rash." "I'm afraid so." The sheriff shook his head regretfully.
"Make one of them help; who is the best man?" "Schmitt for this sorter job." I called him, and growling to himself at being awakened, the Dutchman crept past cautiously and wedged himself in beside Watkins.
Et's all in trainin'! On'y a man ez had the Fourth Reader at his fingers' ends could talk like that. Bein' brought up on Dobell ez is nowhere it sorter lets me outer you, ez it did outer HER. But allowin' it ain't the square thing for YOU to mention her name, that wouldn't be nothin' agin' MY doin' it, and callin' her, well Lou Price in a keerless sort o' way, eh?"
Waal, I'm going to send some hands down below to trim a few of them bales you see there up level with the tops of the beams; then we'll lay a couple of thicknesses of planking over all, which 'll make a tol'able floor; and then I'm going to have a sail nailed fore and aft to the deck-beams, dividing the space into two, one for the women-folks and one for the men; and another sail hung athwart-ships 'll make all sorter snug and private; and I guess you'll have to make yourselves as comfortable as you can down there.
Seems to me that as long as Abel Armstrong can stride up and down in that garden of his, reciting poetry and speeches, or talking to that yaller cat of his as if it was a human, he doesn't care much how the world wags on. He never had much git-up-and-git. His father was a hustler, but the family didn't take after him. They all favoured the mother's people sorter shiftless and dreamy.
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