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"No, but he's mighty white if he wants to buy a dollar's worth of books and papers. I haven't sold much on this trip, but if he " "But he don't want to, boy! Don't you understan'? Jes' listen to me right now! De colonel don't want nothin' but Walton an' his angle worms!" "Who's Walton? What road's he travel on?" "He don't travel. He's daid, I reckon.
He would have cried out with a sense of misery contagious from the music of those pines above him, perhaps, if the brandy had not begun to creep along his veins and shine bold in his large, girlish eyes. "Levin," said Joe Johnson, "don't you like me?" "Yes, Mr. Johnson, I think I does, 'cept when you use them quare words I can't understan'." "I'm dead struck with you, Levin," Joe Johnson said.
What was my surprise and mortification, then, whan I fand it quite the reverse most markedly sae! "Oh, William, is that you!" said Mrs. Robertson, drily, and wi' a degree o' stiffness and cauldness in her manner which I couldna understan'. "Will ye stap in a bit?" she added, hesitatingly and evidently wi' reluctance. Weel, she used to fling her arms aboot me, and pu' me in.
"Wal yer see, dar's dat ar 'tachment matter. I don't understan' it, nohow." "Nor I either," said Mollie. "P'raps yer could make out sunthin' 'bout it from dese yer," said the colored woman, drawing a mass of crumpled papers from her pocket. Mollie smoothed them out upon the table beside her, and began her examination by reading the endorsements. The first was entitled, "Peyton Winburn v.
The two men laughed. "Why, can't you understand it would be sure death to fight a sword duel with this fellow?" "Dat's all right! See? I know me own business. If he wants t' fight one of dees d n duels, I'm in it, understan'" "Have you ever fought one, you fool?" "No, I ain't. But I will fight one, dough! I ain't no muff. If he wants t' fight a duel, by Gawd, I'm wid 'im! D'yeh understan' dat!"
I noo for the first time understan' why Saul threw his javelin at David when the lad sang for him." A boy in Buffalo, N. Y., who was asked to write out what he considered an ideal holiday dinner menu, evolved the following: Furst Corse. Mince pie. Second Corse. Pumpkin pie and turkey. Third Corse. Lemon pie, turkey, and cranberries Fourth Corse.
"Praties, boy, or pit-taties, if I must be partic'lar." "Ah! goot, goot, I understan' pettitoes. Oui, oui, ye call him pomme de terre."
"La, Thomas," Mrs. Jones put in, "how you do run on! Why, the strangers 'll think they 'll be talked to death before they have time to breathe." "Oh, I guess the folks understan' me. I 'm one o' them kin' o' men 'at believe in whooping things up right from the beginning. I 'm never strange with anybody. I 'm a N' Yawker, I tell you, from the word go.
"Don't you see?" said Kate, "it's your death these cowards mean." Cumberland seemed to grow taller, he stood so stiffly erect with his chin high like a soldier. "You shan't make no single step to talk with Dan!" "Can't you understand that it's you they threaten?" she cried. "I understan' it all," he said evenly. "I'm too old to have a young man damned for my sake." "Shut him up!" ordered Silent.
"You know, Miss Fannie, yo' letteh say fo' Aunt Fudjinny an' me to come the twentieth yass, ma'am, we understan' but, you know, Mr. Mahch, he come down an' superscribe faw this young ah " "Girl," suggested Barbara, with pretty condescension; but Fannie covertly trod on her toe and said, "lady," with a twinkle at the dowdy maiden. "P'ecisely!" responded Leviticus to both speakers at once. "An' Mr.
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