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When Southern sympathy had ceased to wreak its wrath upon the railroads about Baltimore we pushed on to Washington. There I got letters from Uncle Eb and Elizabeth Brower. The former I have now in my box of treasures a torn and faded remnant of that dark period. DEAR SIR 'pen in hand to hat you know that we are all wel. also that we was sorry you could not come horn. They took on terribul.
Tim had an' ould blundherbuss, all loaded up wid bits av nales an' screws an' such-like, wid a terribul big charrge av powther behint ut. Four solid hours did they wait for um forninst a hedge on th' road he had tu come home by, from Ballymeen Fair.
It was jist another Shakespeare book, only this one said that it wasn't Shakespeare, but some one else, that wrote the Shakespeare books. I thought Doc was real foolish to git so mad about it, but I had no idea how much Doc had took it to heart. "Well, I do run on terribul when I git started, don't I? An' them supper dishes waitin' to be washed! But I guess it won't hurt them to stand a bit.
He just stared at the cottage as he drove past, and I got an idea he smiled, only I ain't sure. I am sure of one thing, however; he did stare terribul hard at this cottage!" "You are sure it is the man?" Mrs. Bonner described Mr. Slotman's appearance vividly, and Mr. Slotman, had he been there, might not have been pleased to hear of the impression he had made on the good woman.
"A rare sweet maid her be," they said of her in the village, "but terribul tim'rous, and I lay her ladyship du give she a rare time of it...." Which was true. "Don't talk to me, miss!" her ladyship said to the silent girl. "I know what is best for you; and I know, too, what you don't think I know ha, ha!" Her ladyship laughed terribly.
"Reckon as how you've had your fill o' buffalo huntin' jest for the present," said Barringford, when the narratives were concluded. "Buffaloes an' wolves is a terribul bad combination." "Where is your game?" questioned Henry. "About two mile from here, I reckon." "Perhaps the wolves will be after that." "Can't help it if they air, lad.
They kin pass things off wid th' high hand an' kape their nerve betther'n th' roughnecks ivry toime. "Think av that terribul murdherer, Deeming an' thim tu docthors Pritchard an' Palmer, colludge men, all av thim. An' not on'y men, but wimmin, tu. 'Member Mrs. Maybrick? All movin' in th' hoighth av society!" He was silent a moment, then his face fell.
So long as you stick to the Thirteenth Commandment, you'll get there without any trouble. "'The Thirteenth Commandment'? "'Yes, the Thirteenth "Thou shalt not be found out," you know. Oh, we'll fix the Thorne gang as sure's you're born to die! My luck'll carry you through. It sure will! A chiropodist in Chicago once told me that there was a terribul commotion in the heavens when I was born.
"Ham an' Carl Dudder said the ghost came after 'em something terribul. Wall, I believe it -after what I see myself," and jed shook his head slowly. "You ain't had no trouble?" "We've heard strange voices, that's all," answered Whopper. "We haven't seen the ghost." The old hunter soon told his story in detail.
I wish you had shot him! They're a terribul nuisance, tramps is. One day my wife give two on 'em a dinner an' they up afterwards an' stole my new sickle an' whetstone. Tramps ought all to be hung. Come in the house." "Can you keep us until to-morrow morning?" "I think so I'll have to ask my wife first though." Mrs.
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