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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Well, now, you see there ain't nobody a-listenin', is there?" "No." "I think they ought to give me one more piece, any way." "Piece of what?" "Mebbe two more pieces." "Of what?" "Pie. It was pie I was a-talkin' about all the time." "Don't they give you sufficient?" "Pie?" "Yes." "No, sir; not nigh enough. An' an' come here closter. I'm a-gittin' weak I'm a-starvin'!" he whispered.
How many horses has old Forrest took from the loyal citizens of Tennessee? You couldn't count 'em if you was to try. I'll give you three hundred dollars for them three horses delivered at my brother's house three hundred dollars in gold and you'll have two men to help you. Don't you call that picking up money?" "An' whilst I'm a-gittin' the horses, what'll you be doing?"
The amazed Martha could only chafe the hands, and note sorrowfully the frightful changes in the face of her friend. The weirdly calm, slow voice began to shake a little. "I'm dyin', Marthy, without ever gittin' to the sunny place we girls used to think we'd git to, by-an'-by. I've been a-gittin' deeper 'n' deeper in the shade till it's most dark.
An' fin'ly one morning a blue racer chased her, as the little whelps will, an' got his dummed little teeth fastened in her dress, an' she a-hyperin' around haff crazy, and a-screamin' every jump, so's't I hed to just grab her, an' hold her till I could get the blasted snake off, harmless, y' know, but got hooked teeth, an' not a lick o' sense, an' he kinder quirled around my arm, an' I nacherally tore him to ribbins a-gittin' of him off.
He, however, managed to sit still for the space of five minutes or so on the wall, whistling vigorously. 'I 'opes as you be a-gittin' on brisk with your book-larnin', Muster Alick? Binks lifted his head, after the prolonged silence, to regard, with a critical air, the boy who sat dangling his feet above.
"But if they had the courts with them, they'd get you off. "My lawyer " began Samuels. "May be dead right, or he may enjoy a legal battle at the other man's expense," put in Bob. "The previous cases are all dead against him; and they're the only ammunition." "It's a-gittin' cold," said Samuels, rising abruptly. "Let's git inside!"
"Cuss 'im," she croaked over her evening drink, to an old crone, as withered and evil-looking as herself, "why can't 'e stop in 'is own bloomin' 'ouse, an' leave mine alone a-comin' round 'ere a-pokin' and pryin' and a-perwenting people from earnin' their livin' an' a-gittin' drunk when they ain't well." "What do 'e want?" asked her friend, rubbing her weak old knees. "Wants?
When she got the smoke a-going, she proceeded: "You see, this yere bottom land was all Congress land in them there days, and it sold for a dollar and a quarter, and I says to my ole man, 'Jack, says I, 'Jack, do you git a plenty while you're a-gittin'. Git a plenty while you're a-gittin', says I, 'fer 'twon't never be no cheaper'n 'tis now, and it ha'n't been; I knowed 'twouldn't," and Mrs.
"Well, no," said the old woman, "I can't say that I've gone hungry or nuthin'; but I was only a-gittin' 'fraid I might. Dis hyar 'tic'lar way o' doin' things makes a person scary." "I am glad that Kate is particular," said Mrs. Loudon. "You know, Aunt Matilda, that money isn't very plenty with any of us, and we all have to learn to make it go as far as it will.
The subtlety of the answer had taken the old man back to the days when he was magistrate, and his eyes were half closed. Isom rode away without a word. From the dark of the mill old Gabe turned to look after him again. "I'm afeerd he's a-gittin' feverish agin. Hit looks like he's convicted; but" he knew the wavering nature of the boy "I don't know I don't know."
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