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From the grand old Empire State, like yourself, suh, and without apologies. Whenever I meet with a New York State man I cotton to him." "Have I your name, sir?" I inquired. "You know of my family, perhaps." "Colonel Jacob B. Sunderson, suh, at your service. Your family name is familiar to me, suh. I hark back to it and to the grand old State with pleasure. Doubtless I have seen you befoh, sur.
"Hannibal, suh," the man said to Drew, "is a mule, but a remarkable one, riding trained and strong. I think you will find him quite usable. Do I understand we are about to be favored by a visit from General Morgan?" Drew dismounted. Now he made a business of squinting up at the sun as if to tell time. "Not for a while, suh."
"Eight seventy-five!" said he. "Eight eighty-five!" said Stephen. There was a breathless pause. "Nine hundred!" said the trader. "Nine hundred and ten!" cried Stephen. At that Mr. Jerkins whipped his hat from off his head, and made Stephen a derisive bow. "She's youahs, suh," he said. "These here are panic times. I've struck my limit. I can do bettah in Louisville fo' less.
Toward noon he was met by a young white man, who peered inquisitively into the canopied cart. "Hello!" exclaimed the stranger, "who've you got there?" "A sick woman, suh." "Why, she's white, as I'm a sinner!" he cried, after a closer inspection. "Look a-here, nigger, what are you doin' with this white woman?" "She's not w'ite, boss, she's a bright mulatter."
You wouldn't need a gun, not with those teeth you wouldn't you could just naturally bite a German in two." Jeff shivered. The very suggestion was abhorrent to his nature. "Please suh, don't don't talk lak that," he entreated. "I ain't cravin' to bite nobody a-tall, 'specially 'tis Germans. Live an' let live tha's my sayin'."
"Do I mean it, Fitz? Don't it crop out in half a dozen spots right on our own place? One haalf of my estate, suh, is a coal-field." "You never told me a word about it." "I don't know that I did, Fitz. But it has never been of any use to me. Besides, suh, we have plenty of wood. We never burn coal at Caarter Hall." Fitz did not take that view of it.
You will be startled, amazed, bewildered by the magnitude of the returns upon the investment which I am giving you the opportunity to make. "I shall say no more at present, gentlemen, but when my prospectus is off the press I shall place it in your hands " "Gemman to see you, suh." "I'm engaged." "Said it was important." The bell boy lingered. Sprudell frowned. "Did he give no name?"
The truth is the cowboys in this country have been deviling me to death, nearly ever since I started this sto' to get them some good hats good ones, suh. They told me that they couldn't get a decent hat in this whole country. I promised them that I would buy some of the best I could find. When yo's came some of the boys saw the wagon bound for my store, ten miles out of town.
"Such are the correct facts accurately repeated, Judge Priest's Jeff," gravely assented this affable faunalist. "Yas, suh," said Jeff. "D'ye s'pose now, boss, it would he'p any ef they wuz a whole passel of folks to do the laffin' 'stid of jes' one?" "Beyond the peradventure of a doubt.
"No, suh!" the junk-dealer said, with emphasis, "I awready done got me a good mule fer my deliv'ry hoss, 'n'at ole Whitey hoss ain' wuff no fo' dollah nohow! I 'uz a fool when I talk 'bout th'owin' money roun' that a-way. I know what YOU up to, Abalene. Man come by here li'l bit ago tole me all 'bout white man try to 'rest you, ovah on the avvynoo.
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