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"Why, Mars Tom, sholy you can't mean to say I don't know about shirts, when, goodness knows, I's toted home de washin' ever sence " "I tell you, this hasn't got anything to do with shirts. I only " "Why, Mars Tom, you said yo'self dat a letter " "Do you want to drive me crazy? Keep still. I only used it as a metaphor." That word kinder bricked us up for a minute.
And when a man was running, and threw himself on his stomach to slide to his base, it was like an iron-clad coming into port. At first I appointed men of no rank to act as umpires, but I had to discontinue that. These people were no easier to please than other nines. The umpire's first decision was usually his last; they broke him in two with a bat, and his friends toted him home on a shutter.
Lizzie got jest wrapped up in that boy; toted him round ever'where 'nd never let on like it made her tired, powerful big 'nd hearty child too, but heft warn't nothin' 'longside of Lizzie's love for the Old Man.
He 'clared dat de law sed ez how ennybody ez sold er offered fer sale any cotting atter sundown an' afore sun-up, should be sent ter jail jes de same ez ef he'd done stole it. Den I axed de man dat bought de cotting ter gib it back ter me, but he wouldn't do dat, nohow, nor de money for it nuther. So dey jes' toted me off ter jail. "I knowed der warn't no use in savin' nuffin' den.
We ked niver hev toted our doin's es we've did; an' but for the piece o' bacon an' thet eer bag o' meal, we'd a sterved long afore this, I recking. Don't cuss the berra." "Och! it's made my showlders ache, as if some skhoundrel had been batin' them wid a sprig ov shillaylah!" "Ne'er a mind 'bout thet! yer shoulders 'll be all right arter ye've got a wink o' sleep.
"Last summer I toted a bucket o' blackberries down to Three Oaks an' sold them to Mrs. Cleave. An' she was making a valance for her tester bed, an' I thought the stuff was mighty pretty, an' she gave me a big piece! an' I put it away in my picture box with my glass beads. For the ribbon I'd saved a little o' my berry money, an' I walked to Buchanan an' bought it." She drew a long breath. "My land!
"Yes, and you ran out like a scared cat, and dropped the candy in my suitcase," finished her brother. "I thought you meant to give it to me, so I kept it, and toted it up here. Now will you sew those buttons on for me?" "Yes, Will," answered Grace, meekly, as she accepted the box. "I thought that would fetch you around," he said with a cheerful grin. "Never mind, Amy, next time it will be you."
I'm a wicked girl to leave her so but then I can't help it, the Lord forgive me, for I can't help doing it." "Well, old man," said Aunt Chloe, "why don't you go too? Will you wait to be toted down river, where they kill niggers with hard work and starving? There's time for ye; be off with Lizzy, you've got a pass to come and go any time."
De queen she lef' her baby layin' aroun' one day, en went out callin'; an one 'o de niggers roun'bout de place dat was 'mos' white, she come in en see de chile layin' aroun', en tuck en put her own chile's clo's on de queen's chile, en put de queen's chile's clo'es on her own chile, en den lef' her own chile layin' aroun', en tuck en toted de queen's chile home to de nigger quarter, en nobody ever foun' it out, en her chile was de king bimeby, en sole de queen's chile down de river one time when dey had to settle up de estate.
"He'd have all the dishes and all the ladies' dresses toted through the smoking-room." "Well, see here," Tom said: "I can take closets off this bedroom;" and the division-line was quickly run. "And, pray, whose bedroom is that supposed to be?" Gertrude asked.
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