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It was hardly fair, however, to leave Alminy Cutterr waiting while this piece of natural history was telling. As she spoke of little Jo, who had been "haaf eat up" by Tige, she could not contain her sympathies, and began to cry. "Why, my dear little soul," said Mr. Bernard, "what are you worried about?
"I don't know what else to call it," she replied, "if your father tells you to do a thing, and you take no notice of it." "But father does n't want me to give Tige away I don't believe he 's thought of it again since that night." "Then, if I were you," replied his grandmother, "I would ask his consent to keep the dog.
Tige was an ill-conditioned brute by nature, and art had not improved him by cropping his ears and tail and investing him with a spiked collar.
I'm a desperate man, and my friend here is even desperater than what I am. Remember you are alone, and at our mercy and "'Oh, she says, with a sweet smile, 'I ain't exactly alone. There's Tige, she says. "I don't see no Tige, I says, glancing around hurriedly. "'That ain't his fault, she says. 'I'll call him, she says, looking like it wont be no trouble whatsoever to show goods.
"Come here, Tige! Poor fellow! Come here! He's a good fellow! Don't you know me, Tige?" said Tom, whose only hope seemed to be in conciliation and compromise. If Tige knew him, he appeared to be very unwilling to acknowledge the acquaintance under the present suspicious circumstances, and at this unseemly hour.
On McLaws' left was Wilcox, of General "Tige" Anderson's Division of the 3d Corps, with Posey and other troops to his left, these to act more as a brace to Longstreet as he advanced to the assault; however, most of them were drawn into the vortex of battle before the close of the day.
The ball being driven down until it rests on the top of the tige, receives its first impulse from the small charge contained in it, after which, the fire, flashing back, communicates to the powder outside the tige, producing an enormous accelerating effect. But it is doubtful if the gun can be brought into actual service, from being so difficult to clean.
"You all know what a 'round-up' of cattle is, so I need not explain. Once a man down south was going to have one, and he and his boys and friends were talking it over. There was an ugly, black steer in the herd, and they were wondering whether their old yellow dog would be able to manage him. The dog's name was Tige, and he lay and listened wisely to their talk.
"Well, Tige, old fellow, what is it?" said Jonathan Zane, for this was he. The dog answered with a low whine. Jonathan looked up and down the creek valley and along the hillside, but he saw no living thing. Snow, snow everywhere, its white monotony relieved here and there by a black tree trunk. Tige sniffed again and then growled.
Tige was an ill-conditioned brute by nature, and art had not improved him by cropping his ears and tail and investing him with a spiked collar.
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