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Updated: June 25, 2025
"I'm seven kinds of a fool. Left my wallet in that old coat Shelby let me wear round the stable! Now that's the limit, ain't it? I got to go back. Ain't got a cent with me. You ride on slow and stop at the Pine Cliff Inn up the road a-piece, and wait there till I come. Columbine's fresh as a daisy and the three miles or so will be just a warm-up for her this night. Now wait there.
As it was, horses and cows of a very indifferent kind were sold for more than a hundred pounds a-piece, and sheep for five pounds a head. The discovery of the copper mines alone saved the country from ruin. The first was the Kapunda. It was accidentally discovered by a shepherd, who picked up a piece on the surface of the ground, and showed it to his master.
"I'll be shot if I don't have pay, or revenge!" he continued, with tears in his eyes. "What were they worth?" demanded Glenn, laughing. "I was offered two dollars a-piece for 'em as we came through Indiana," replied Sneak. "Here's the money," said Glenn, handing him the amount.
The black net is really an inspiration, and if we make it up ourselves we can manage quite well, and have enough money left for gloves and ribbons, and one fresh blouse a-piece." For the next week all was bustle and excitement.
She called all three of them boys in, Bud and Henny and 'Lias, and made 'em learn a Bible verse a-piece, and I was grateful to her for her interest, but the Squire cussed so to 'em while she went to get 'em a cake that I'm afraid the lesson were spoiled for the chaps." "I don't reckon it were, Bettie. Good salts down any day, while Evil don't ever keep long.
He was usually described by his friends, in the South and West, as 'a splendid sample of our na-tive raw material, sir, and was much esteemed for his devotion to rational Liberty; for the better propagation whereof he usually carried a brace of revolving pistols in his coat pocket, with seven barrels a-piece.
Most of the buffaloes that we bought, after our friend, the prime minister, had procured us a fair market, were sold for a musket a-piece, and at this price we might have bought as many as would have freighted our ship.
"I didn't know but Lionel might have brought me some anatomical studies over. They'd be in my line." Sibylla shrieked a pretty little shriek of affectation. "Lionel, why do you let him say such things to me? He means amputated arms and legs." "I'm sure I didn't," said Jan. "I meant models. They'd not let the other things pass the customs. Have you brought a dress a-piece for Deb and Amilly?"
They're but hapuns a-piece; an' anybody that has the grace to keep one o' these about them, will never meet wid sudden deaths or accidents, sich as hangin', or drownin', or bein' taken suddenly wid a configuration inwardly. I wanst knew a holy man that had a dhrame about a friend of his, it was Will any of yez take one? "Thank you, a colleen: my blessin', the bless-in' o' the pilgrim, be an you!
I believe the gold fields will attract a large European population. The wages are enormous. There are 20,000 black men, without a stitch upon them, earning as much as eighteen shillings a week a-piece, and getting as much food as they can eat, in the mines of Johannesburg. People talk about the treatment of the blacks. Nobody dares to treat them badly, because they would run away.
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