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Updated: May 12, 2025
And one o'clock meant books again three long hours of wrangling with dull wits, of fencing with sharper ones; three long hours of a-b-abs, of two-times-twos and three-times-threes; hours of spelling and of parsing, hours of bounding and describing. With it all, woven through it, now swelling, now dying away, now broken by a shrill cry of pain or anger, was the ceaseless buzzing of the school.
The old woman appeared on the porch and she, too, hailed the boy with a bantering tone and a quizzical smile. "One o' them fotched-on women whoop ye fer missin' yo' a-b-abs?" she asked. Jason scowled. "Whar's Mavis?" The old woman laughed teasingly. "Why, hain't ye heerd the news? How long d'ye reckon a purty gal like Mavis was a-goin' to wait fer you?
I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives.
Ah, your pa's shot-gun nothing! Why, you crazy, that would only infuriate him the more. What you want to do is to take an express rifle, like Doo Challoo did, and aim right for his heart. An express rifle is what you send off and get, and they ship it to you by express. So you see what a fellow misses by having to go to the show in the afternoon, like the girls and the a-b-abs.
Here, Mammy eh, what's yo' name, boy? Oh, Mammy Chad, here 'll take her. Take good keer o' that gal, boy, an' learn yo' a-b-abs like a man now." Melissa came shyly forward from the door and Joel whistled to Jack and called him, but Jack though he liked nothing better than to drive sheep lay still, looking at Chad.
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