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"Oh, I'll sustain you," drawled the squire. "I'll sustain you in anything you do, except to pizon 'em with slow pizon, and I ain't altogether sure that wouldn' be jest manslaughter." "All right." Keith's eyes snapped, and presently, as the outer man's gaze rested on him, his snapped also. So the compact was struck, and the trustee went on to give further information.
Even here, on the lone, wide prairie, they could not shake off the small pretense of superiority. When supper was finished and Coombs' suppers were the worst I ever ate in Canada the working contingent adjourned after washing dishes to the sod stable, where I asked questions about our employer. "Meaner than pizon!" said Marvin. "Down East, on the 'lantic shore, is where he ought to be.
Stevenson himself had a humourous way of referring to persons with colds as "pizon sarpints," and strangers may have wondered to hear him say: "I'm not seeing my friend So-and-so just now, because he's a pizon sarpint."
And, my young friend, I will advise you, in case your married futur’ is unhappy, and you do find it necessary to give pizon to your consort, do not tell anybody of your intentions; do not let it be known; and you must do it in such a way as not to be suspected, or people will think hard of you, and there may be trouble.”
"And that old bloat of a second cousin that crimson beak what kem down yesterday, he ain't bin hangin' round here today for his reg'lar pizon?" "No," said the barkeeper thoughtfully, "I reckon Spindler's got him locked up, and is settin' on him to keep him sober till after Christmas, and prevent you boys gettin' at him."
It cannot be any other way; there is no mistake; it is so; it must be true; the fact is this, and thus I tell you, you will pizon your first wife.
It ain't Christian, and as like as not, it's slandering the poor feller to say it, but my 'pinion is, that Ben Benson's a-beginning to hate that ere gal like pizon." Mabel was so occupied with new thoughts, that she did not hear the conclusion of this speech, but sat gazing steadily on the carpet. "What can all this mean," she reflected.
“Pizon his first wife,” would he? Well, he could have taken that “pizon” with tolerable composure from the lips of lovely woman, but to receive it from the mumbling mouth of a skinny old man, was too much to accept without divers rebellious grins.
"It's pizon," said Jasperson, "jest pizon." "You, Jasperson, need a violent stimulant. On Tuesday afternoon, my boy, you and I will go on a mild spree. I don't like sprees any more than you do, but I see no other way of cutting this knot. Now, mark me, not a word to Miss Dutton. It's late, so good-night." Between May-day and the following Tuesday but little transpired worth recording.
For if ever a woman lived as know'd not wot it was to form a wish to pizon them as had good looks, and had no reagion give her by the best of husbands, Mrs Harris is that ev'nly dispogician!
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