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"Can you tell me where I can find the stage-driver?" "That's me," grunted Mr. Blake. "Be you wantin' anythin'?" "Only to pay you for taking us up to the house last night, and to arrange about our trunks. Can you deliver them this afternoon?" "I ain't a-runnin' of no livery, but I can take 'em up, if that's what you're wantin'." "Exactly," said Harlan, "and the box, too, if you will.
"Onct I slipped off wid another gal an' went to a party dout asking Old Mis'. When dem Night Riders come dat night, de Niggers was a-runnin' an' a-dodgin' an' a-jumpin' out-a winders lak dey was scairt to death. I runs too, me an' dat other gal. I fell down an' tore my dress, but I warnt studyin' dat dress. I knows dat dem white folks had dat strap an' I's gittin' 'way fas' as I could.
'N' ef ye do hate me, whut hev you been lookin' 'cross the river fer, 'n' a-shakin' yer bonnet at me, 'n' paddlin' to Gabe's fer yer grist, when the mill on Dead Crick's been a-runnin', 'n' I know it? You've been banterin' me, hev ye?" the blood rose to his eyes again. "Ye mustn't fool with me, gal, by , ye mustn't. Whut hev you been goin' over thar fer?"
"Depends who's a-runnin' the countin'," said the Virginian, and stretched himself down among the audience. "I've saw him number one when nobody else was around," said Trampas. "How far away was you standin' when you beheld that?" inquired the lounging Southerner. "Well, boys," said Wiggin, "I expect it will be Miss Schoolmarm says who's number one to-night."
"And he snips off your ears and nose," broke in Prudy, "and blood comes a-runnin' down, and he kills you dead, and then he puts you in jail, and then he chased us don't you hear him comin'?" "What does all this mean?" cried grandma and aunt Madge in one breath. "Have you been in that mowing-field, children?" Grace and Susy hung their heads.
The minute I hear old Scraggsy yippin' for help, says I to myself, 'let the beggars fight their own way out of the mess. But the mate comes a-runnin' up and says he's pretty sure he can come near plantin' a mess of shells in the centre of the disturbance, even if we can't see the wari on account of the jungle.
As his confidence in the young man grew, the squire let Keith into a secret. "You mind when you come up here with that young man from the North, that engineer fellow, what come a-runnin' of a railroad a-hellbulgin' through this country, and was a-goin' to carry off all the coal from the top of the Alleghanies spang down to Torment?" Keith remembered.
We had done it and I'd do it again," there was a lift of her head, a light in her eyes, "but it hasn't been easy to know that you wondered that other people wondered. But it wouldn't have been any better if I had told. Truxton had to be here to make it right if he could." "Why didn't he come a-runnin' to you as soon as he got on this side?" "He couldn't.
Hit 'peared to me like 'twarn' no time befo' all de folks an' de neighbors dey come, an' dey wuz a-totin' water, an' a-tryin' to save de po' critters, an' dey got a heap on 'em out; but de ker'ige-hosses dey wouldn' come out, an' dey wuz a-runnin' back'ads an' for'ads inside de stalls, a-nikerin' an' a-screamin', like dey knowed dey time hed come.
"No; why here I be," said Abram's mother, with a hearty laugh. "Well, how could I throw off my shawl an' me a-runnin' so, an' 'twas all pinned across me, an' my brother'd brought it from over seas. So I had to run." Phronsie sighed, and kept her troubled eyes raised to the big face above her. "An" the first thing't ever I knew, I went down kerslump into a big compost heap, an' "
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