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Updated: June 11, 2025
So did the Cap'n, and the Doochess an' Lady Cleone they all 'elped 'em to do it, they did. An' now they're goin' into the country, to Deven'am, an' I'm a-goin' wiv 'em an' they're a-drivin' over to see you, sir, in 'is Ludship's noo phayton an' that's all no, it ain't though." "What more, Imp?"
Some of yer 'as made 'im fast that day. Much thanks yer got for it. Ain't 'ee a-drivin' yer wusse'n ever?... Let 'im slip overboard.... Vy not? It would 'ave been less trouble. Vy not?" He advanced confidentially, backed away with great effect; he whispered, he screamed, waved his miserable arms no thicker than pipe-stems stretched his lean neck spluttered squinted.
Long stood Barnabas devouring these words with his eyes; so puzzled and engrossed was he indeed, that not until Master Milo ventured to touch him on the arm did he look up. "'Ere's 'is Ludship, sir," explained Milo, jerking his thumb towards the open window, "a-drivin' up the av'noo, sir, in 'is phayton, and wiv 'is noo Vi-coun-tess along of him and a reg'lar 'igh-stepper she looks, don't she?
I-I-I've l-l-loved you ever sence the fust time that I seen you, but I was such a coward, I I couldn't couldn't " "You're not!" cried Nora imperiously. "Oh, yes, I am," said Sam. "Look at them," said Nora, almost touching his crippled fingers. "Don't I know?" "Oh, that," said Sam, hiding the hand under the droop of the tablecloth. "Why, that? I got froze some, a-drivin'."
In winter, when the ground is covered with snow, what grand times they have a-sleighin' over these here marshes with the gals, or playin' ball on the ice, or goin' to quiltin' frolics of nice long winter evenings, and then a-drivin' home like mad, by moonlight.
We hain't got a minit to spare; you must shell the corn and winner the grain at night, and clean all up slick, or I guess we'll fall astarn as sure as the Lord made Moses. If he didn't keep us all at it, a-drivin' away full chisel, the whole blessed time, it's a pity. There was no 'blowin' time' there, you may depend.
'You won't want me and her to sit on the back seat, and it wouldn't look jes right for you an' her to be in front, and me behind all by myself, as if I was company. "'Don't know, said Captain Abner. 'We'll get her fust, and then let her sit where she wants to. "'There's one thing I wouldn't like to see, said Sam Twitty, 'and that's you and me sittin' behind, and her a-drivin'.
"Listen here," said Jack Harpe, suddenly, in a snarling whisper designed solely for the ears of Racey Dawson, "I dunno what you been a-drivin' at, but just for yore better information I'm telling you that I always get what I go after. Whether it's land, cows, horses, or women, I get what I want. Nothing ever has stopped me. Nothing ever will stop me. Don't forget." "Thanks," smiled Racey.
When lo, and behold! jest as she wuz a-thinkin' these thoughts, she see this wild and skairful machine approachin', and Deacon Henzy a-standin' up on top of it a-drivin'. He looked wild and excited, bein' very tickled to think that he had threshed more with his machine, by twenty bushels, than Deacon Petengill had with his.
'Blessin's on the man that invented it, says I, 'and put folks in the notion of havin' their lawns kept neat, 'cause they could do it cheap. And there's what Andy and Jim has made a-drivin' the cows, and Barney and Tommie a-takin' care of the geese. Wennott's the town for them as can work. And bad luck to lazy bones anyway. It's thankful I am I've got none of 'em in my family."
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