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"Lee-yander hyar knows it all!" he boasted. "Old Ab himself don't know no mo'! I'll be bound old Ab went a-braggin' hey, Lee-yander?" But the boy shrank away a trifle, and his smile was mechanical as he silently eyed his relative. "Ab 'lowed he war tur'ble disobejient," said Nehemiah, after a pause, and cautiously allowing himself to follow in the talk, "an' gi'n over ter playin' the fiddle."
I ain't had anything like it- Say, if you'd a heard me braggin' to th' boys about your butter 'n' biscuits, I'll bet your ears 'ud 'a' burnt." The private's wife colored with pleasure. "Oh, you're always a-braggin' about your things. Everybody makes good butter." "Yes; old lady Snyder, for instance." "Oh, well, she ain't to be mentioned. She's Dutch." "Or old Mis' Snively.
"What did you quit it for, then?" ventured Charley, out of the hushed silence. "Pride," replied the stranger solemnly. "Haughtiness of spirit." "How so?" urged Charley, after a pause. "Them chickens," continued the stranger, after a moment, "stood around listenin' to me a-braggin' of what superior fowls they was until they got all puffed up.
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