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"P'r'aps, Gaffer, p'r'aps!" returned Job, "but I sez again, I believe what Peter sez, an' I don't believe there never was no ghost at all." "Ay, lad, but I tell 'ee theer was I seed un!" cried the old man eagerly, "seed un wi' these two eyes, many's the time. You, Joel Amos you've 'eerd un a-moanin' an' a-groanin' you believe as I seed un, don't 'ee now come?"
"He was tryin' all he knowed how to raise trouble yesterday," said Bill; "but the b'ys wasn't wid him. This very mornin', when I called in to see how he was feelin' for work, there he laid in his bed wid the covers drug up over his ugly face, a-moanin' an' groanin' as how he wasn't fit to hit a clip.
"I wisht I hed knowed that then," he replied; "else I wouldn't hev been so all-fired oneasy an' beset I wasted mo' time a-studyin' 'bout ye an' Luke Todd 'n ye war both wuth, an' went 'thout my vittles an' sot up o' nights. Ef I hed spent that time a-moanin' fur my sins an' settin' my soul at peace, I'd be 'quirin' roun' the throne o' Grace now! Young folks air powerful fursaken fools."
"But there is much work to be done as well as the shooting." "I'll be there!" exclaimed Pete. "What makes them sheep keep a-moanin' and a-bawlin' and a-shufflin' round? Don't they never git to sleep?" "Si, but it is a new camp. To-morrow night they will be quiet. It is always so." "Well, they sure make enough noise. When do we git goin'?" "Pedro, he will leave mañana.
So, if you please, we will drop the subject. I then picked up a book and held it before me to signify that the parley was at an end. Elizabeth snorted. The term is vulgar, I know, but no other expression is adequate. 'Oo was listenin', I'd like to know? she asked. 'I sed overheerd. The door was well on the jar and I was dustin' the 'all when I 'ears Miss Marryun a-moanin' and a-sobbin' like.
One of them was saying: "Ol' Murdock's dawgs is a-cryin' and a-moanin' " And the other answered: "Oh, Lor'!" "An' ol' mammy, she's a-looking at the tea grounds in a cup." "What she say?" "She don' say nothing." He paused to give his words effect. "She got a rabbit foot." "Oh, Lor'!" The negro glanced fearfully about them. "Oh, Lor'!" he repeated.
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