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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Ye talk like ye ain't got good sense, Cynthy," said Jacob irritably. "What's ter hender me from hitchin' up my mare ter my uncle's wagon an' ye an' me a-drivin' up hyar to the Cross-Roads, fifteen mile, and git Pa'son Jones ter marry us? We'll get the license down hyar ter the Court House afore we start.
"Yes, and," said Nora accusingly, "how did you get froze? A-drivin' 'way down there, in the storm, after folks. No one else'd go." "Why, yes. Cap Franklin, he went," said Sam. "That wasn't nothin'. Why, o' course we'd go." "No one else wouldn't, though." Sam wondered. "I was always too much a coward to say a word to you," he began. And then an awful doubt sat on his soul.
Barslow; but somethin' seemed to pull the nigh line an' turn me toward Main Street; an' fust thing I knew, I was a-drivin' hell-bent for O'Brien's place!
It's about a man who made his will and afterwards was a-drivin' a horse along a road, and the horse got skeered and ran over his executor, who was takin' a walk. Then he sung out, 'Oh, bless my soul! says he. But I'll read you the rest if I can find it." "Never mind about the anecdote," said Matlack, who knew very well that it would take Mrs.
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.
He joined the frenzied altercation that was going on between the donkey man and the fat woman. The air was rent by their angry shouts. A group of highly appreciative villagers collected round them. Then one of them pointed to William, who sat, feeling still slightly shaken, upon the bank. "It was 'im wot done it," he said, "it was 'im that was a-drivin' of it down the 'ill."
I been a-drivin' this heah hack and a-studyin' of history for more'n forty years, and I ain't hardly scratch the skin of what done happen heah before a Yankee man was ever thought of. They didn't use to have no Yankees 'fore the war, but they done propogate themselves so all over the land that they clean got possession of 'most all of it.
Then I'll jump out, 'Right yer are, guvner, sez I, and with that he 'ands me up the other two poun' ten and the extry half-suvering. I fobbed it and whipped up the old 'oss. Next moment we was around the corner, and a-drivin' as if we was a trying to ketch a train. Then we comes to a little side street, an' I slows down.
"What's this, anyhow? Auto-mobiles? As I live! Wa'al, I swan t' goodness! An' gals a-drivin' of 'em! Ho! ho! Wa'al, that's what I call rich yes, sir, rich!" A fringe of curious haymakers gathered behind the one who had entered first. "We only came in out of the rain," explained Cora, who was looking her prettiest in the confusion. "We hope we're not in the way."
"'Got a fine hoss thar, sez I; 'reckon I never see such a purty color, sez I. 'He is purty, sez he, 'per'aps too purty for ME to be a-drivin', but he isn't fast. 'I ain't speakin' o' that, sez I; 'it's his looks that I'm talkin' of; whar might ye hev got him? 'He was offered to me by a fr'en' o' me boyhood, sez he; 'he's a pinto mustang, sez he, 'from Californy, whar they breed 'em. 'What's a pinto hoss? sez I. 'The same ez a calico hoss, sez he; 'what they have in cirkises, but ye never see 'em that color. En he was right, for when I looked him over I never DID see such a soft and silky coat, and his mane and tail jest glistened.
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