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"And then," sez he, a-brightenin' up, "I don't want to skair you. You'd most probable be skairt into a fit if it should break loose and start off independent into space. And it would take away all my enjoyment of such a pleasure excursion to see you a-layin' on the earth in a fit." Sez I, "It hain't vests or affection that holds you back, Josiah Allen it's fear."
"Why, Nimbus, what is this you tell me? Was any one else hurt?" "Wal, dar's a couple o' white men a-layin' mighty quiet dar, afo' 'Liab's house." Hesden shuddered. The time he had dreaded had come! The smouldering passion of the South had burst forth at last!
Billy Caines a Darset man same as myself. Him and me was reg'lar pals out there, wasn't we, Bill?" "I d' 'low we was," responded Private Caines, after ceremoniously pumping Mrs. Baverstock's hand up and down. "We did fight side by side, and we was wounded side by side, and we was a-layin' side by side for weeks in the field hospital, wasn't us, Dick?"
I have to act like a heavy weight in a clock movin' half the time, or he would be jest swept to and frow like a pendulum. It makes me feel queer. Sez I, "What are you a-layin' out to set off for Washington, D.C., for?" My tone kinder hung on to him, and stiddied him down some. And he lost some of his wild and excited mean.
Wasn't I a-layin' on the Emma L., not three hundred yards away? An' there was a man the same year he killed with a blow iv his fist. Yes, sir, killed 'im dead-oh. His head must iv smashed like an eggshell.
An' he got old man Byars ter wagin him down ter Colb'ry, a-layin' on two feather beds 'count o' the rocky roads, an' thar he got on the steam kyars an' he rid on them back ter whar he kem from." Kinnicutt seemed unable to longer restrain his impatience. He advanced a pace. "Ye appear ter 'low ez ye air tellin' news I knowed all that whenst it happened a full year ago!"
It was too steep for both to ride now, so he tied the bundle to the cantle with leathern strings and started leading the horse. June pointed to the edge of the cliff. "I was a-layin' flat right thar and I seed you comin' down thar. My, but you looked funny to me! You don't now," she added hastily. "You look mighty nice to me now !" "You're a little rascal," said Hale, "that's what you are."
"Them niggers may be a-layin' there ten thousand strong, waitin' for a boat's crew to come prowlin' up into the bush so they can nab 'em." "I've thought of that, Mac," said the commodore a trifle coldly, "and if I made a sucker of myself once it don't stand to reason that I'm apt to do it again. Remember, Mac, a burnt child dreads the fire.
So Mars' Colby had ter let dat uppity yaller gal go ahead an' do her worstest. "She sho' done it," said Uncle Rufus, shaking his head. "Dar nebber was sech anudder dinner sarbed on de Colby table befo' dat time, nor, since. "My mammy, a-layin' on her back in de quahtahs, an' groanin', sent me up to de big house kitchen tuh watch.
The men up there heard her scream, an' they run down, an' found her a-layin' there where she fell, an' they thought she was dead already. She come to herself ag'in, but after that she just sort o' pined away, an' in less than two months she died. It's her ghost that goes up there an' calls us still." "Did you ever hear the call before?" "No; I never heard it myself.
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