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They've lived so long down there with all the colored people that they've gotten lazy and shiftless." "Hush your mouth, Harry!" she cried angrily. "They're not! They may be lazy anybody would be in that climate but they're my best friends, an' I don't want to hear 'em criticised in any such sweepin' way. Some of 'em are the finest men in the world." "Oh, I know.
I determines to cast the opprobrium on some other boy an' send the hunt of gen'ral indignation sweepin' along his trail. "'Thar's a innocent infant who's a stoodent at this temple of childish learnin' an' his name is Riley Bark. This Riley is one of them giant children who's only twelve an' weighs three hundred pounds.
"It's Thursday," Grandmother reminded her, "and I heard the mail train come in some time ago. You'd better leave the sweepin' an' go and get my paper." "Yes, do," Aunt Matilda chimed in, with a sneer. "I can't hardly wait for this week's paper, more'n the other sufferin' five million can.
"Or the somethin' else." "I'm sorry Sally Carrol, but I've heard you say yourself that you'd never marry " "That's quite different. I told you I wouldn't want to tie my life to any of the boys that are round Tarleton now, but I never made any sweepin' generalities." They walked along in silence. "I probably spread it on a bit thick Sally Carrol. I'm sorry." She nodded but made no answer.
"Why, your grandpa's been sweepin' up the county for you!" he exclaimed to Will. "So he's found out I wasn't at the Morrisons'," said the boy a little nervously. "I'd better be going home, I reckon, and get it over." Christopher drained his glass of whisky, and then, refilling it, pushed it across the table. "What! Aren't you man enough to swallow a thimbleful?" he asked, with a laugh.
"I reckon you think, child, that a caliker or a worsted quilt is a curious sort of a monument 'bout as perishable as the sweepin' and scrubbin' and mendin'. But if folks values things rightly, and knows how to take care of 'em, there ain't many things that'll last longer'n a quilt.
"I don't want the pig, my good fellow," replied the Englishman, without evincing curiosity enough to inquire how he came to have such a commodity for sale. "She'd be the darlint in no time wid you, sir; the run o' your kitchen 'ud make her up a beauty, your haner, along wit no trouble to the sarvints about sweepin' it, or any thing.
"An' I been doin' plain cookin' an' heavy sweepin' and hard scrubbin' ever since I was knee-high to a toadstool!" Bobby burst out laughing. "So have I, Lizzie!" she cried. "Only I have done it for Father Tom and my kid brothers and sisters when Mrs. Betsey was sick." Lily Pendleton turned up her nose literally. "We're going to have trouble with that girl," she announced to Nellie.
And then we went by big meetin'-housen, and other big housen, whose ruffs seemed so high that it seemed as if you could stand up on the chimblys and shake hands with the man in the moon, and neighbor with him. And then the talk I hearn 22 miles of river frontage sweepin' up from the lake into the heart of the city, where the giant elevators unload their huge traffic.
"Yo ho!" answered the voice of the singer, and approached booming: Shorty loomed in the doorway and caught his hand to his forehead in a nautical salute. He had one bad eye, and now it squinted as villainously as if he were the real Sam'l Hall. "Righto sir. What'll you have, mate?" "Don't mate me, you igner'nt sweepin' of the South Sea, but trot up some red-eye and gallop."
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