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Updated: May 24, 2025
The sergeant, taking note of this, gave pause to his elaborate history while he administered a sardonic comment. "Be keerful, honey, you 'll be a-ketchin' flies," he said. The tattered man shrank back abashed. After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a different way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading.
He added that he "reckoned they wouldn't be in 'til dark, fer they was a-ketchin' a right smart of bass." "Is it far from here?" asked the nurse. "Somethin' less than a mile, ain't hit, Bill?" Bill "'lowed hit war about that. Mile an' a quarter to Bud Jones', Bud called hit." "And the road?" "Foller the creek can't miss it." This from the chorus.
Bill and Hi were more than ever his friends and champions, and the latter was heard exultantly to exclaim to Bruce: "He ain't much to look at as a parson, but he's a-ketchin' his second wind, and 'fore long you won't see him for dust."
Ain't it a shame the way them fellers hez been goin' on sence they wuz leetle saplin's, makin' it so nothin' could grow raound 'em, with their jackets all ragged an' tore like tramps, an' their toes all out of their shoes whar ther roots is stickin' clear of the bark, ain't they a-ketchin' it in their ole age?
The most outlandish thing he ever 'dopted, to my mind, is that old yaller cat. That was a miser'ble low-down stray cat thet hung round the place a whole season, an' Sonny used to vow he was goin' to kill it, 'cause it kep' a-ketchin' the birds.
The sergeant, taking note of this, gave pause to his elaborate history while he administered a sardonic comment. "Be keerful, honey, you 'll be a-ketchin' flies," he said. The tattered man shrank back abashed. After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a diffident way try to make him a friend. His voice was gentle as a girl's voice and his eyes were pleading.
"Young lady a-ketchin' cold, I'm afeerd," he said, with respectful solicitude. "Do you think the rain will last long?" said Agatha politely. The man examined the sky with a weather-wise air for some moments. Then he turned to Agatha, and replied humbly: "The Lord only knows, Miss. It is not for a common man like me to say."
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