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It looks like Seth Pine, a tailor down to Hartford, that had one leg shorter than t'other, when he stood at ease at militia trainin', a-restin' on the littlest one. Well, I had a special frolic there the last time I passed this way. I lost the linch pin out of my forrard axle, and I turned up there to get it sot to rights.
"Some day when that theer old stapil be all rusted away, an' these old bones is a-restin' in the churchyard over to Cranbrook, Peter you'll think, sometimes, o' the very old man as was always so full o' noos, won't 'ee, Peter?" "Surely, Ancient, I shall never forget you," said I, and sighed.
A were just a-restin' me at after a'd comed in, not half an hour i' t' place.
So she said, "Well, then, if you've got so far, it rests with yoursilf to go farther. 'Tis a blessed thing that there are such a many things in this world a-restin' on a body's lone silf. But there's them that niver foinds it out, and that goes about layin' their own blame here, there and yon." Pat's elation lasted him overnight and even well on into the next day.
Just tell the truth and shame the devil! Them lawyers is a tricky pack, and they know how to mix a fellow up, till he don't know crystal from frit. But don't you worrit! The truth's stronger'n the whole pack of 'em, and that's what I'm a-restin' on. You tell the truth as you b'lieve it, whether it's for me or agin' me, child, and it's all I'll ask o' you."
A were just a-restin' me at after a'd comed in, not half an hour i' t' place.
As soon as she heard the horses galloping up she ran out to the balcony. 'Is that you, Sam? she called. 'Where are they? 'Mas'r Haley's a-restin' at the tavern. He's drefful fatigued, missis. 'And Eliza, Sam? 'Come up here, Sam, called Mr. Shelby, who had followed his wife, 'and tell your mistress what she wants to know.
But, as he said, she wuz jest struck right down seemin'ly with her grief at the loss of them two old folks. You see, if your head has been a-restin' for some time on a piller, even if it is a piller of stun, when it is drawed out sudden from under you, your head jars down on the ground dretful heavy and hard.
Her left arm was a-restin' firm on a kind of a square block, with "The Rights of Man" carved on it, and half hidin' them words wuz a sword, which she also held in her left hand. The rights of Man and a sword wuz held in one hand, jest as they always have been. But, poor creeter! her right arm wuz gone her good right hand wuz nowhere to be seen.
But as a director uv the Han'-bul 'nd St. Jo I 've got to pertect the rights of these other folks. So jist keep the baby quiet as you kin." Now, there war n't nothin' cross in the colonel's tone; the colonel wuz as kind 'nd consid'rit as could be expected uv a man who hed so much responsibility a-restin' onto him.
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