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And away back there among the Indians a pony reared, and then pitched forward. "I sure do bate to shoot down a horse," Lite explained shamefacedly, "but I never did kill a man " "We-ell, I calc'late mebby yuh will, 'fore you're let out from this yere meetin'," Applehead prophesied drily. "Now, dang it, RIDE!"
"An' an' de ol' Jedge, he nebber done set her free?" "No; nor the mother. I do not know why, only that it is a fact." "An' now she done b'long ter dis yere Massa Kirby?" "Yes, he won all the Beaucaire property, including the slaves, in a poker game on the river, the night Beaucaire died." "Ah done heered all 'bout dat, sah. An' yer nebber know'd dis yere girl afore et all?"
As they entered Jennie walked straight up to him: "Dad, you come home. Come right out o' yere." He looked at her for a moment until his benumbed brain took in her words and all their meaning; then he said: "All right, Jinnie, just wait a second till I have another horn with these yer gents " "Horn nawthin," she said in reply, and seized him by the arm. "You come along."
"Which this yere Major Ben," remarked the Old Cattleman, "taken in conjunction with his bosom pard, Billy Bowlaigs, frames up the only casooalty which gets inaug'rated in Wolfville." "What!"
An' to make himse'f loved, I reckons, whatever does he do but bring along Julius Caesar. "I don't reckon now he ever plays Julius Caesar none on Red Dog. Mighty likely this yere was the bull-snake's first engagement. I clings to this notion that Red Dog never sees Julius Caesar; for if she had, them drunkards which inhabits said camp wouldn't have quit yellin' yet.
For all that, he did not hear the door open, and got up with a start as a man came in. Then his alarm vanished for Pete stood looking at him with a sympathetic twinkle. "I ken what ye feel," the latter remarked. "It's like meeting a keeper when ye hae a hare in the lining o' yere coat." "Yes," said Foster, "I expect its something like that. But where have you been?"
Thar's an ol' bum ov a preacher yere at Yellow Banks, a sorter hanger-on ter one o' them militia companies, what'll do eny damn thing I tell him too. I got the goods on him, an' he knows it. "'But she wouldn't marry me, he says, 'yer don't know thet gurl. "'Don't I, I asked sarcastic. 'Wal', thar ain't no gurl ever I see yet thet won't marry a man if the right means are used.
"'I'm awake, says Grief. "'Well, why don't you get outen the rain? "'I'm all wet now an' the rain don't do no hurt, says Grief. "An' this yere lazy Grief Mudlow keeps on layin' thar. It ain't no time when the branch begins to raise; the water crawls up about Grief's feet. So his pard shouts at him some more: "'Whoopee, you Grief ag'in! he says.
Close to the head there was a small door opening into an apartment of some kind, but the coffin was placed so near it that one could pass between the body and the door. "My good man," said Treenail to the solitary mourner, "I must beg leave to remove the body a bit, and have the goodness to open that door." "Door, yere honour!
Her beatific expression told me more eloquently than words that her Jasper was the greatest man on earth. "This yere is goin' to be secured by a confession, dictated by me, written out an' signed by you. When the note is paid, I hand over the confession see! If the note ain't paid prompt, the confession goes to the noospapers of this enlightened land.
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