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Her scoldings, sprinklings with hot and cold water, punching with the carving fork, had all proved ineffectual, and as a last resort, she put the baby on his bed, thinking "that would surely fetch him up standin’, for ’twasn’t in natur to sleep with the baby wollopin’ and mowin’ over him." Her master, too, troubled her. Why he couldn’t get up she couldn’t see.
Reaching a sequestered dell in a few minutes, Ravonino suddenly stopped and turned round with a calm air of satisfaction. "Well, dis am de most awrful supprise I'se had since my mudder give me my fust wollopin'." The expression on the negro's face rendered the remark needless. "It was well done," said the guide, seating himself on the trunk of a fallen tree.
One of 'em was dead in his box, and from what I could see of him it looked mighty like he'd had the tar knocked outa him." "Got a wollopin' from Peterson most likely in the last town and then was shipped along with the bunch and left to die in the baggage car."
"I shouldn't think he would." "When I got kind o' wore out with wollopin' him, I sot down to rest on the edge o' the waterin' trough, an' she comes over to me an' sez she wished I'd stay an' help her bury the old man.
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