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I saddles up, 'cause my proper camp is in the pines t'other side of this yere open stretch, an' I've got to make it. "'My pony is weak, an' can only push through the snow, which is five feet deep. I'm walkin' along all comfortable, a-holdin' of his tail, when "swish" he goes plumb outen sight.
"Did you read it?" "No; I threw it overboard." "And what became of the negro?" "Well," said Miggs with a grin, "when I threw the writ overboard he happened to be a-holdin' on to it. So, ye see, he went over, too. Then I up anchor and scooted." "There are sharks about there?" "A few." "Really, Miggs," the merchant said, "you must restrain your sinful passions.
I marched right up to Luella, a-holdin' out of that cup, all smokin'. 'Now, says I, 'Luella Miller, 'YOU SWALLER THIS! "'What is what is it, oh, what is it? she sort of screeches out. Then she goes off a-laughin' enough to kill. "'Poor lamb, poor little lamb, says Aunt Abby, standin' over her, all kind of tottery, and tryin' to bathe her head with camphor.
Texas is still in a fog, speakin' mental, an' about bled to death; while them exhortin' people is outen their minds entire. "In no time thar's a dozen of us lined out for Cherokee. Do we locate him? Which I should say we shorely discovers him. Thar's a bullet through his laig, an' thar he is with his back ag'in a rock wall, his Winchester to the front, his eyes glitterin', a-holdin' the canyon.
The young man was actually staggering, and I immediately decided that he was drunker than a whole batch of lords. "Yer isn't fit ter be goin'," the old fellow was objecting. "Ye jist come back ter th' house an' git ter bed, where ye belongs. Ye'll get a mite o' sleep an' feel better. 'Tain't fair ter be goin' again right off. You can't hardly be a-holdin' of yerself up."
They're jest a-holdin' yore life like a hostage fer Purvy's, anyhow. Ef he dies, they'll try ter git ye." The boy flashed a challenge about the group, which was now drawing rein at Spicer South's yard fence. His eyes were sullen, but he made no answer. One of the men who had listened in silence now spoke: "In the fust place, Samson, we hain't a-sayin' ye done hit.
He had daughters of his own, and the Rector had been kind when one of those daughters had suddenly come home from service, ill, and with no prospect of another place. "A-holdin' of hands and a-castin' of sheep's eyes," said he. "We knows what that's the beginnings of! Well, well, youth's the season for silliness, but there's bounds there's bounds. And all of a mornin' so early too.
"'Course I be," says the Benjamin; "but that's neither here nor there, I've died every year sence I can remember." "Don't it hurt?" says the boy. "No, it don't," says the posy; "it's real nice. You see, you get kind o' tired a-holdin' up your head straight and lookin' peart and wide awake, and tired o' the sun shinin' so hot, and the winds blowin' you to pieces, and the bees a-takin' your honey.
The doctor drew his buggy nearer. He was a little deaf. "No; I said this pill, doctor. I'm a-holdin' of it here in the pa'm o' my hand, a-studyin' over it." "What's she a-dosin' you for now, Enoch?" The doctor always called the deacon by his first name when he approached him in sympathy. He did not know it. Neither did the deacon, but he felt the sympathy, and it unlocked the portals of his heart.
It is enough to make a stun woman, or a wooden female, mad, to see how the nation always depicters wimmen in statutes, and pictures, and things, as if they wuz a-holdin' the hull world in the palm of their hand, when they hain't, in reality, willin' to gin 'em the right that a banty hen has to take care of their own young ones, and protect 'em from the hoverin' hawks of intemperance and every evil.
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