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I dunno, though, but what I'd ha' liked to be a sojer; it's better than spendin' all yer life in a hop-garden, spuddin' and poling and hoeing." "You!" said Joey, "you a sojer, Smiler?" "Well, why not? Course, I know my back's a bit twisted, but it would ha' been right enough if I'd been drilled."
"No, I ain't workin' none jest spuddin' around." "Me? I'm jes' shacklin' around." "Yea, la! I'm jist loaferin' about." And yet one hears that our mountaineers have a limited vocabulary! A "cooter" is a box-tortoise, and the noun is turned into a verb with an ease characteristic of the mountaineers. "Spuddin' around" means toddling or jolting along.
"Bob, you better put Dave with the crew of that wildcat you're spuddin' in, don't you reckon?" "I'll put him on afternoon tower in place of that fellow Scott. I've been intendin' to fire him soon as I could get a good man." "Much obliged to you both. Hope you've found that good man," said Sanders. "We have. Ain't either of us worryin' about that."
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