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"Look here, Joseph," continued Snac, opening his trap wide, "you go and tell him. 'My lord, says you a-speakin' like a man, Joseph, and a-lookin' his lordship i' the face as a man in a suit of clothes like them has got a right to do 'my lord, you says, 'you're as mean as you're high, says you. 'What for? says he.

"They war all off in the woods, a-lookin' arter Rufe's trap ez ye sot fur squir'ls," Mrs. Dicey explained. "It hed one in it, an' I cooked it fur supper." Birt said that he could go out early with his axe and cut enough wood for breakfast tomorrow, and then he fell silent. Once or twice his preoccupied demeanor called forth comment.

Her husband looked right into her face all the while the Elder wuz a-unitin' 'em, a-lookin' at her as if he could not quite believe in his happiness yet looked at her as one looks at a pearl of great price, when he has recovered it after a long loss. I sez to Josiah, as I see that look on his face "Many waters may not quench it, Josiah Allen, nor floods drown it, can they?"

The Colonel stood a great deal from Timmie and Zack, for much less than a tenth of which he would have sent another negro off his place in double quick. "Who is the lady?" he asked, not over pleased at her humor. "Nem'min' who de lady is! But she's a suah-footed, elegant an' lovely angel, dat's got moh human kindness in her den anyone I sees a-lookin' at me!"

"An' does he does he ever whip yer?" asked Maggie. In spite of the pain in her heart, Helen smiled. "No never." "Our dad gits mad, too, sometimes," said Bobby. "But, gee! he ain't never like that. Dad, he wouldn't care if somebody just looked into our yard. We wasn't a-hurtin' nothin' just a-lookin' that's all. Yer can't hurt nothin' just a-lookin', can yer?" "I am sorry," said Helen.

Me and Lawyer Fillmore has been a-lookin' into them deeds, and this timber is mine; and he driv off. "I come along home and studied 'bout it a bit, and me and the wife talked it over. We didn't want to make no fuss, but we knowed he was alyin', but that ain't no unusual thing for Luke Shanders.

"But hyar be what I'm a-lookin' at the law 'ain't got no pervision fur a stray horse ez kem of a dark night, 'thout nobody's percuremint, ter the ranger's own house. Now, the p'int o' law ez I wanted ter ax the lawyers 'bout air this kin the ranger be the ranger an' the taker-up too?"

"The sound of that'll carry a long way," he explained, "and that means that you're both found. The other fellows who are searchin' for you will quit lookin', now, and come into Long Lake. If I'd fired just two shots, and hadn't fired the second two, that would have meant that one of you was found, and they'd have kept right on a-lookin' fer the other.

Dey was kin' an' went 'bout mongst de slaves a-lookin' after 'em. Dey give out food an' clo'es an' shoes. Marse D.D. Withers was my young marster. He was a little man, but ever'body stepped when he come 'roun'. "Don' rightly know how it come 'bout. Lemme see! De bes' I 'member my nex' Marster was Pres'dent Jefferson Davis hisse'f. Only he warnt no pres'dent den.

"Dum 'em, I say!" sez he, out of its red and yeller depths. "I'd love to skin the hull on 'em, Judge and Jury." And I sez meanin'ly, "Now, do you want to go and be intimate with them law-makers, Josiah Allen?" "No," sez he, a-wipin' his eyes and a-lookin' mad, "no, I don't! I want sunthin' to eat!" And I riz up imegatly, and got a good dinner a extra good one.