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"Och," said Moya, "I am heart-scalded to have it to tell you, and I know you will laugh at me; but, say what you will, there is something bad over uz, for the banshee was about the house all night, and she has me almost frightened out of my wits with her shouting and bawling."
Stirling punched a neighbour in the side to attract his attention. "What's the score?" he demanded of the neighbour, who scowled and then grinned. "Two one agen uz!" The other growled. "It'll take our b s all their time to draw. They're playing a man short." "Accident?" "No! Referee ordered him off for rough play."
To be sure he skrewed the last fardin' out of uz, but where was there ever a tithe-procthor that didn't do the same thing? An' sure if he tuck as much as he could from huz, an' gev as little as he could to the parson, wasn't it all so much the betther? Wasn't it weakenin' their fat church and fattening our weak on'? where's the honest Catholic could say a word aginst that?
She gave her head a series of movements, as to say she might be angry if she would, but she wouldn't. "Ye won't know uz when Mrs. Richlin' comes." Richling laughed, but she gave a smiling toss to indicate that it was a serious matter. "Come," she insisted, patting the seat beside her with honeyed persuasiveness, "come and tell me all about ud. Mr.
En Doctor Claypool he 'uz a-workin' at him, en Pudd'nhead Wilson he 'uz a-he'pin', en ole Jedge Driscoll en Pem Howard 'uz a-standin' out yonder a little piece waitin' for 'em to get ready agin.
I 'uz off too fur to hear what dey say to you I wuz 'fraid o' de dogs; but when it 'uz all quiet agin I knowed you's in de house, so I struck out for de woods to wait for day.
But ages before they had ever led their sluggish armies eastward to the Mississippi and, crossing, had shaken its bright drops from their shaggy low-hung necks on the eastern bank ages before this, while the sun of human history was yet silvering the dawn of the world before Job's sheep lay sick in the land of Uz before a lion had lain down to dream in the jungle where Babylon was to arise and to become a name, this old, old, old high road may have been a footpath of the awful mastodon, who had torn his terrible way through the tangled, twisted, gnarled and rooted fastnesses of the wilderness as lightly as a wild young Cyclone out of the South tears his way through the ribboned corn.
I have already alluded to the fact that the old monarchial government of Korea ended its inglorious career but a few short months ago. While the records of the nation run back more than three thousand years probably to a period when Job was so superbly reproaching his comforters in the Land of Uz the late dynasty runs back only 500 years.
She put up wid her, en hed de doctor gib her medicine, en let 'er go ter de circus, en all so'ts er things fer ter take her min' off'n her troubles. But dey didn' none un 'em do no good. Chloe got ter slippin' down here in de ebenin' des lak she 'uz comin' ter meet Jeff, en she'd set dere unner dat willer tree on de udder side, en wait fer 'im, night atter night.
'It is throwin' away my time I have been all my life, says he; 'livin' with you at all, and stuck at a loom, nothin' but a poor waiver, when it is Saint George or the Dhraggin I ought to be, which is two of the siven champions o' Christendom. 'Well, suppose they christened him twice as much, says the wife; 'sure, what's that to uz?
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