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She caught on a tree when she was rollin' and broke four ribs, or some such matter. He'd ought to a-knowed better than to pass a hay-wagon where it was sidlin'. Good job, says I, fer havin' no judgment though I was one of his pall-bearers, as an accommodation." Aunt Lizzie was beyond exclaiming, and Miss Mercy's toes were curling and uncurling, though she preserved a composed exterior.
Mebbe, if you'd actually been born in Posey County you'd a-knowed enough to be a Jigadier-Brindle. Then I'd a lost you for a pard. This's a great invention. Why, it's softer and comfortabler than one of mother's feather beds. When I get out of the army, I'm going to sleep on nothin' but cedar boughs." "There, you're at it again the Wabash forever," returned Shorty, good-humoredly.
"If you'd a-seen him scoot, you'd a-knowed that he was dead skeered, and would never turn up here no more, bear or no bear." Mrs. Chester looked at me. She was greatly worried, but she was also amused, and she could not help laughing. "Isn't this a dreadful predicament?" she said. "What in the world am I to do?" At this moment there was an acidulated voice from the kitchen. "Mrs.
It give us a first-class jolt to find all the girls so quiet-looking; and they being that way braced up the whole crowd to be like a dancing-party back East. To see the boys a-bowing away to their partners, while José he was the fiddler, José was was a tuning up, you wouldn't a-knowed where you was!
I'm a lawyer in business in Broad Street, and as soon as I reach my office I'll send the amount by messenger." "Aw, to hell with you and your troubles! I might a-knowed you was some new kind of a panhandler when you come a-snortin' in my ear that-a-way. Better beat it while the goin's good. You're in the wrong neighbourhood to be springin' such a gag as this one you just now sprang on me.
"Well," said Ephraim, in a voice that shook with unwonted emotion, "you kin skin me if it ain't Amasy Beard!" His eye travelled around Amasa's figure. "Wouldn't a-knowed you, I swan, I wouldn't. Why, when I seen you last, Amasy, your stomach was havin' all it could do to git hold of your backbone." Cynthia laughed outright, and even Jethro sat up and smiled.
If I'd a-knowed what it meant, me and Bub here would have gone to the factory ourselves, maybe, and done the work quicker. But I didn't know what with war times and such-like but that it would be better to deliver the note." "It turns out as well, perhaps," agreed Ned. "We'll look after Tom now." "And I'll come along and help," said the farmer.
Any fool would a-knowed what a woman with a half-gal, half-boy name like her'n would do, an' she's done hit, she sure has! But she ain't a-goin' ter do no more! You-all belongs ter me a heap more'n you do ter her, if hit comes ter that, though, I ain't a-foolin' myself none a-thinkin' that sich as you could ever take up with sich as me, me bein' what I am.
I'm dying I'll tell the captain with my last breath. Stew-ard!" "Sure I'm coming, mum, as fast as I can," sang out Llewellyn aloud, adding sotto voce for his own satisfaction, "Hang that Major Madam! I'd never have shipped in the Nancy Bell if I had a-knowed she was coming aboard! Bless you, mum, I'm coming everything is all right and there isn't no cause for alarm!"
Hart's nephew was drunker'n usual that night, same as I've said, or even he'd a-knowed he'd likely get into trouble talking that way to the Hen. For about a minute things looked real serious.
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