Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
"I wur a-lookin' at Blackbird," he said, "poor wold chap! He was a good beast in his day, but I d' 'low his day be fair done. Tis the last night what Blackbird 'ull spend in this 'ere stall." "Why," cried Mrs. Bold quickly, "ye don't mean to say " "I mean to say," interrupted her husband, turning to her with a resolutely final air, "I mean to say as Blackbird's sold."
"You've stood a-lookin' up into the sky for a good ten minutes!" said he. "And what if I have?" "Nothin," said the Pedler, "nothin' at all though if the moon 'ad been up, a cove might ha' thought as you was dreamin' of some Eve or other; love-sick folk always stares at the moon leastways, so they tell me.
"'Why on the bridge, sais I; "he has got his head down and is a-lookin' atween his fore-legs to see where his tail is, for he is so cold, I do suppose he can't feel it. "Well, as soon as we could, we started; but afore we left, sais the Judge to me, 'Mr. Slick, sais he, 'here is a plaister, taking out a pound note, 'a plaister for the skin the pig rubbed off of the old woman.
But I've had very little bother with 'em sin'. I never see'd a lot o' chaps so altered sin' th' last February, as they are. At that time no mortal mon hardly could walk through 'em 'beawt havin' a bit o' slack-jaw, or a lump o' clay or summat flung a-him. But it isn't so, neaw. I consider th' men are doin' very weel. But, come; yo mun go deawn wi' me a-lookin' at yon main sewer."
Sez he, "Do you ask why?" "Yes," sez I, with that same noble, riz-up look on my eyebrow "why?" "Wall," sez he, a-lookin' kinder meachin', "I want sunthin' to eat, and you'd probable talk a hour with him by the way you've praised up his doin's here." By this time General Davis wuz fur away.
I see you there last Sunday a-lookin' so solemn," and Molly stroked her hand down her chin to give it length. Adrian insisted on her keeping to facts. It was dark, and in the dark he was indifferent to the striking contrasts suggested by the lass, but he wanted to hear facts, and he again bribed her to impart nothing but facts.
I was a-stoopin' down by de stove -jist so, same as if yo' foot was de stove an' I'd opened de stove do' wid my right han' so, pushin' it back, jist as I pushes yo' foot an' I'd jist got de pan o' hot biscuits in my han' an' was 'bout to raise up, when I see a black face come aroun' under mine, an' de eyes a-lookin' up into mine, jist as I's a-lookin' up clost under yo' face now; an' I jist stopped RIGHT dah, an' never budged! jist gazed an' gazed so; an' de pan begin to tremble, an' all of a sudden I knowed!
And oh, how I did wish, as I looked at it, that her ancestor could have seen it, and meditated how pert and forwards the land wuz that he'd discovered! Glass dresses the idee! But Josiah looked kinder oneasy all the time that I wuz a-lookin' at it; he wuz afraid of what thoughts I might be entertainin' in my mind onbeknown to him, and he hurried me onwards.
There's nobody following us? 'No, Miss, dear. That man with the wooden leg is putting a padlock on the door. 'Come very fast, I said; and when we had got a little farther, I said, 'Look again, and see whether anyone is following. 'No one, Miss, answered Mary, plainly surprised. 'He's putting the key in his pocket, and standin' there a-lookin' after us. 'Oh, Mary, did not you see it?
He looked first rate a good and well-behaved old man, I hain't a doubt on't. Then, there wuz Patriotism a man and a woman. He, a-standin' up ready to face danger, or die for his country; she, with her arms round him, a-lookin' up into his face, as if to say "If you must go, I will stay to home with a breakin' heart, and take care of the children, and do the barn chores."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking