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When Polly Bixbee," said David impressively, "puts that foot o' her'n down somethin's got to sqush, an' don't you fergit it." Mrs. Bixbee made no acknowledgment of this tribute to her strength of character. John looked at David. "Yes," he said, with a solemn bend of the head, as if in answer to a question, "I squshed. I says to her, 'All right.
Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden; and, mind you, it was a thing that was calculated to make most ANYBODY sqush to get fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because how was HE going to know what was tattooed on the man?
So the twins and Connie came into an empty room, and chattered away to themselves abstractedly for an hour. Then Prudence came down. Instantly Connie was asked the all-important question: "Are your feet wet?" Connie solemnly took three steps across the room. "Hear me sqush," she said proudly. She did sqush, too! "Constance Starr, I am ashamed of you! This is positively wicked.
"Woodshed!" she exclaimed, making as if to rise and follow. "You set still," said David. "Somethin' I fergot." "What on earth!" she exclaimed, with an air of annoyance and bewilderment. "What do you want in the woodshed? Can't you set down an' let Sairy git it for ye?" "No," he asserted with a grin. "Sairy might sqush it. It must be putty meller by this time," And out he went.
Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden; and, mind you, it was a thing that was calculated to make most ANYBODY sqush to get fetched such a solid one as that without any notice, because how was HE going to know what was tattooed on the man?
We crossed the creek, by leaping from one stone to another, and pursued a course along a rotting rail fence, covered with vines. And from over in the low ground came the "sqush" of the cows as they strode through the rank and sappy clover.
That a grown man particularly a minister of the gospel, with not only his own but other people's souls to save should spend time hunting for worms, with which he couldn't even bait a hook, awakened amazement. "What any man in his right mind wants with a thing that ain't nothin' but wriggles an' hair on the outside an' sqush on the inside, beats me!" was said more than once.
Bimeby ole Brer Bull-frog, he sorter stop his cryin' en his boo-hooin', en he up'n say: "'Ef you gwineter kill me, Brer B'ar, kyar me ter dat big flat rock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon', whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um, den you kin take you axe en sqush me.
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