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Updated: May 6, 2025
Now, miss, if I thought you had head-piece enough to keep good counsel and ensue it, maybe I could tell you a thing as would make your hair creep out of them coorous hitch-ups, and your heart a'most bust them there braids of fallallies." "Why, what in the world do you mean?" I asked, being startled by the old man's voice and face. "Nothing, miss, nothing. I was only a-joking.
"Yer second 'lowance," repeated the joker Harris. "All the noo hands can git it if they axes fur it." "Now, yer bean't a-joking?" "No," declared Harris unblushingly, winking to the others around. "Joking why should I, man?" The greenhorn grew quite excited at the prospect of another tot of grog after his pipe.
"They were Ashby's men all those three!" He began to cry, though noiselessly. "They hadn't ought to cut at me like that shooting, too, without looking! They ought to ha' seen I wasn't no damned Yank " The figure in the straw moved. Steve turned sick with apprehension. "Did you hear what I said? I was just a-joking. Gawd! It's enough to make a man wish he was a Johnny Reb Hey, what did you say?"
"Miss Ca'line," ventured Jeff as he assisted her in packing the huge hamper that occupied the center of the dining-room table, "is Mister Dave sure 'pinted to be jedge of the criminal court he ain't a-joking is he?" "Why, no, indeed, Jeff," answered Caroline Darrah as she rolled sandwiches in oiled paper before putting them into a box. "What made you think that?"
"I ain't a-joking," replied the other, speaking as gravely as before and without even the shadow of a smile on his face. "I'm a `downright, that's what I am." "Pray, what profession is that," asked the commander, sarcastically. "I would not like to hurt your feelings by calling your avocation a trade!"
"I sang out to you jist now, sir, as how I had to take a letter for the Cap'en, who told me as he didn't think you'd have time to bathe afore starting for the steamer." "I thought I had and missed it!" said Bob ruefully. "But you're not going really to swim out to the cutter now, Dick, eh?" "No, no, Master Bob," cried Dick, his grin expanding into a laugh. "I were only a-joking.
She had no words to say, but Miss De Courcy turned away from the sorrowful, puzzled eyes of forget-me-not blue, the sole beauty of the homely, irregular little face. "I was only a-joking, Druse," she added, smiling. "Come, let's make some lemonade." But Druse did not forget these and other words.
I will speak to my father when he is strong enough. Go to Slieve Nagorna now, and you will find the old cot in which you were born. You can sleep there, and and I I will see that you are not interfered with." "The old cot in which I was born," said Neil very slowly. "The old cot, and I'll see it again. Is it a-joking me you are, Miss Nora?" "Would I joke with you just now, Andy? Would I?"
That's what all the men are a-joking of Mr. Poteet about over there at the store now. They are a-going to make out the deed to-night. They bought the land from Bob Nickols right next to Mr. Poteet's, crops and all, ten acres of the best land in Sweetbriar. I call it a nice compliment. 'To Tucker Poteet, from Sweetbriar, is to go right in the deed." "'Tucker Poteet, oh, Mrs.
I got home then and I seen her and Maw laughing about it and Aunt Prissy was just as pink and pleased and loving looking as Pattie were and Maw was a-joking of her like Mis' Pratt no, Hoover did Pattie and all of a sudden I knewed it were them bad boys, 'cause I seen 'em laughing in a way I knows is badness.
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