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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I'm not saying but that the other fellows' mottoes are best for them that likes them, but, if I was a-hunting somebody that I could tie to through thick and thin, in any kind of business, and under every kind of circumstance, I'll be blamed if I wouldn't rather choose somebody that was a-living up to Chicky's text in dead earnest."
But, bless your heart, sir, you'd never have thought so if you'd a known him all the years as I did, off and on, a-living worse than a wild beast behind a muck-heap, and in a cellar underneath the stables. Now you know, sir," proceeded Hinge, growing warm and even angry with the theme, "that ain't civilized; it ain't Christian; it ain't treating a man as if you was a man yourself.
An effigy clad in regulation gambler's rig, including the white shirt, swayed and swung slowly above the merest surface diggings. Across the shirt front these words were written: "My claim failed!" And then below them: "Oh, Susannah! don't you cry for me! I'm a-living dead in Californi-ee" which was very bad as doggerel, but probably very accurate as to its author's state of mind.
I got to know some of them by sight a good many, I might say. Secret chaps, they was, sir spies." "That's all very interesting," I returned, "but you can see I'm bothered just at present, and I want to be alone. You can tell me all that at another time." "There's one of them a-living in this house, sir," said Hinge, as little moved by my interruption as if I had not spoken.
Jones: "Well, now, I can't take upon myself to say whether it was Europe or London, or which of them outlandish places; but, anyways, in some on 'em he did leave his wife a-living along of her 'pa. But you see 'bout a month ago, her 'pa he died, a-leaving of all his property to his onliest darter, Lady Hoist, Hurl, Hurt, Hurt-my-toe. No! Hurt-me-so, Lady Hurt-me-so!
There wasn't but the three of us, my father Jeremiah Clatworthy was his name my mother and myself; for I was the only child they had a-living.
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