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Updated: June 1, 2025
"I'm a-holding, Dave!" The two-year colt, Rix, lay on the ground. Sid was holding tightly to the lasso, while Dave was trying to put the points of a pair of small nippers into Rix's right eye. Rix had objected very much, but Dave was determined; he knew something was wrong with that eye. "There!" said Dave at last, holding up the nippers. "See? Fox-tail, just's I thought. Got it in his eye."
"Never mind what you said to him," Captain Bayley broke in, "what is it you want to say to me? What is there curious in my crest being on my spoons? Now just wait one minute, and tell me as plainly as you can." Mrs. Holl waited a minute. "Well, sir, it struck me all in a heap, because I've got in the house a thing with just such another hand, a-holding of a knife in it." "Oh!"
But that evening as I came home, about the going down o' th' sun, I did hear voices i' th' kitchen, and, looking in at th' window, behold, there was that hussy Ruth a-plucking of Keren by th' kirtle, and Keren a-holding of a pan o' milk above her head, as though she had half a mind to souse her cousin in 't. And saith she, "Get to thy feet, wench. This is neither a church, nor am I th' Lord."
"Don't say nothing where the mocking-birds will hear you, please, 'cause they'll begin to hatch out a dumb race from plumb discouragement. Come out on the porch where it ain't so hot, but I'm a-holding on to you to keep you from flying up into one of the trees. I'm a-going to set about building a cage for you right "
After a while she took a brace getting down her pocket-handkerchief, and calling in the hand the old gent was a-holding and said she must be brave, like her dear Captain'd always been, so he'd see when he was a-looking at her from heaven she was doing the square thing.
Bettie sure do look pretty with that white sunbonnet on her head, and count how many Turners, Pratts, Hoovers and Pikes she have got trailing peacefully behind her, all like full-blood brothers and sisters. I'm so glad she's a-bringing her sewing to set a spell. Come in, Bettie, here's a rocker a-holding out arms to you!"
"Never a spot so big as the splash on a guinea-flower!" saith Keren. "And ears like sea-shells." Well, ne'er saw thou a child grow as did that child. Meseemed he sprouted like corn after a rain; and in five months a was waxed so strong a could stand on 's feet a-holding to his mother's kirtle.
The Jew resumed, his voice sinking almost to a whisper. "It vos quite dark behind the curtain but from the bathroom, through the open door, I could just see ole Mac standing with his back to me, a-holding the curtain. He must haf shlip in there to watch the other who vos komming opstairs.
Another knock came, and it was a stranger's voice this time: "The other cabins are filled; not one but has its hearth crowded; will ye take us in the two of us? The wind bites mortal sharp, not a morsel o' food have we tasted this day. Masther, will ye take us in?" But Teig sat on, a-holding his tongue; and the tramp of the strangers' feet passed down the road.
He dares them to go to law about it, and it aint worth while for one book. The other sections are all asking for that book; not that they want it, but the whole country knows that old Bartlett's a-holding on to it, so they'd like to see some fun. Bartlett's read that book fourteen times, and it's all he knows. I tell Margaret she ought to fine him, and keep on fining, but she won't do it.
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