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Updated: May 12, 2025
'It's a shame, says Nell, 'all thet 'lection money bein' thrown away on paint when it might save our poor crazy child. I hope it ain't wrong, sir; but thet's what I thought, too. So we laid plans fer me to come here today. Ef I kin get a-hold o' any o' thet money honest, I want to do it." "Have you got a horse?" asked Kenneth. "Not now.
And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man that's started in on a new life, and'll die before he'll go back. You mark them words don't forget I said them. It's a clean hand now; shake it don't be afeard."
When he found he couldn't it being locked so good there was no budging it he got worse jolted, and his breath seemed to be coming hard. The Hen got a-hold of him again and done some more shivers, and then she says: "It all will be over, one way or the other, in a very few moments now.
"Westover," the painter suggested. "But the boy isn't so bad all the time." "Couldn't be," said Whitwell, with a cackle of humorous enjoyment. "He has his spells of bein' decent, and he's pootty smart, too. But when the other spell ketches him it's like as if the devil got a-hold of him, as I said in the first place.
Lions can spring enormous distances horizontally, you know; but, save in exceptional cases, their vertical jumping powers are restricted to a marked degree. Quick! Put your foot in my hand and let me start you. When you are up, you can pull me up after you. Now then!" and the Hen reached her hand down so she could get a-hold of Boston's foot and give him a send.
'How can I?" "Oh, poor Mrs. Ricker!" I exclaimed. Calliope looked at me intently. "Well," she said, "that's what I run in about. You're a stranger just fresh come here. You ain't met folks much yet. An' Mis' Sykes, she's just crazy to get a-hold o' you an' your house for the Sodality.
Then Boston wanted the colored man to come who was scared out of his black skin at the notion, and wouldn't; and if the Hen hadn't ended up by grabbing a-hold of him saying as it was dark, and she knowed the way and he didn't, she'd better lead him likely she wouldn't a-got him started at all.
"But I want it," objected Wilhelmina, "and I'm willing to let it count. But if others will pay me more " "I'll bond your mine," began Judson Eells desperately, "for four hundred thousand dollars " "Don't you do it," came back Wunpost, "because under a bond and lease he can take possession of your property. And if he ever gits a-hold of it "
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. He wore out by and by, and laid still a while, moaning. Then he laid stiller, and didn't make a sound.
"But Hart's nephew being scared that way," Hill went on, a'most choking, "don't count one way or the other when you get down to the facts. It was this here dangerous devil that done that wicked deed, and he done it all alone by his dangerous self. At the risk of my life, gentlemen, I've got a-hold of him to bring him to justice, and here he is.
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