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And he's been a-cuttin' down timber on the place whenever he's took a mind to, askin' no by- your-leaves, and none of us 'adn't no right to say a wurrd, he bein' master-like but when it comes to the Five Sisters why then we sez, if the Five Sisters lay low there's an end of the pride and prosperity of the village, an' Passon Walden he be main worrited about it, for he do love trees like as they were his own brothers, m'appen more'n brothers, for sometimes there's no love lost twixt the likes o' they, and beggin' your pardon, Miss, he sent me to ye with a message from hisself 'fore dinner, but you was a-lyin' down and couldn't be disturbed nohow, so I goes down to Spruce" here Bainton indicated the silent Spruce with a jerk of his thumb "he be the forester 'ere, under Mr.
"But Tom was acquitted," Sarah hastened to proclaim. "Just the same he lay in jail all night without bail." This was unanswerable, and Sarah executed her favorite tactic of attack in flank. "A nice come-down for you, I must say, that was raised straight an' right, a-cuttin' up didoes with a lodger." "Who says so?" Saxon blazed with an indignation quickly mastered.
Then he uttered a short ejaculation, such as may be heard from the "mountain men" at peculiar crises; and after that we could hear him exclaiming: "Look out, Rowl! Hang it, man! ye're a-cuttin' my claws!" In a few minutes the hole was large enough to pass our bodies; and one by one we crawled out, and were once more at liberty.
"Oh, I reckon the ol' woman does feel a leetle hard at us my wife in particular, an' an' some o' the rest, I reckon. You see, thar was a lot said at the quiltin' yesterday about Lizzie Lithicum a-cuttin' of Sally out, an' one thing or other, an' a mother's calculated to feel bitter about sech talk, especially when her only child is laid out as cold an' stiff as a poker."
I never seen her a-gwine on myse'f; not that they was any hidin' out 'mongst the Bivinses er the Sanderses bless you, no! bekaze here's what wa'n't afeared er all the Wornums in the continental State er Georgy, not if they'd 'a mustered out under the lead er ole Nick hisse'f, which I have my doubta if he wa'n't somewheres aroun'. I never seen 'er, but I heern tell er how she was a-cuttin' up.
"Well, they say that I charged too much for lumber, a-cuttin' on the cross, and the backstroke work. And it may 'a been so, when I took agin a man. But to bring up all that, with the mill strown down, is a cowardly thing, to my thinking.
We. alls goes out, an' thar, shore-'nough, is a notice offerin' fifteen hundred dollars reward for some sharp who's been a-standin' up the stage over towards Prescott. "'Whoever tacks this up? I wonder, says Enright. `It never is yere ten minutes ago. "'Well, jest you-all hover 'round an' watch the glory of its comin' down, says Jack, a-cuttin' of it loose with his bowie, an' tearin' it up.
The old man looked keenly at the child, and presently he said: "De ins en de outs er dat kinder talk all come ter de same p'int in my min'. Youer bin a-cuttin' up at de table, en Mars John, he tuck'n sont you 'way fum dar, en w'iles he think youer off some'er a-snifflin' en a-feelin' bad, yer you is a-high-primin' 'roun' des lak you done had mo' supper dan de King er Philanders."
"'Kin ye kill that bird what what?" says he, p'intin' at a hawk that were a-cuttin' circles in the air. "'If he comes clus' 'nough, says Jack. "I passed him the loaded pistol. In 'bout two seconds he lifted it and bang she went, an' down come the hawk. "Them fellers all looked at one 'nother. "'Gin'ral, shake hands with this 'ere boy, says the man with the skeered eyes.
But you, you're a-walkin' right smack dab into it, weth your eyes open, teachin' fer Gospel the inventions o' men." "W'y what, Uncle Billy?" "W'y, this here Santy Claus a-climbin' down a chimley an' a-cuttin' up didoes fer to make them little ones think they is a reel Santy Claus 'cuz they seen him to the meetin' house.
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