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He passed 'im twice inside of a hour, an' he hadn't moved a peg. No healthy minded man don't carry on that way, Mis' Dawson." "Hain't he a-settin' up to that hotel gal?" Mrs. Bradley turned towards the house with her guest. "No, he hain't," she answered.
Mix's, a-settin' on my doorstep, an' I dessay we sha'n't quarrel over a 'undud p'un' or two," sez I. An' then I bust out a-larfin' agin I shall die a-larfin'. And then she added suddenly in the same tone of sadness, 'if I don't die a-cryin'.
I've be'n happier, jes' a-settin' an' lookin' at that old riveh, hearin' the wild geese flocking by! "That old riveh Lawse!
Sweet-potato pie, an' burnt on one side the side thet's left. Yas, an' I'll leave it ag'in!" He chuckled as he took a deep bite. "Of co'se I must 'a' had 'em on when I cut the pie, or I couldn't 've saw it so distinc' 'an I finished that slice a-settin' down talkin' to her at the sewin'-machine. Ricollec' I told her how mother used to put cinnamon in hers.
Some one Benson Annie, I reckons has pasted some co't plaster over the hole on his cheek-bone where the bullet gets in, an' all 'round Jack looks better than I ever sees him. "'Let the congregation remove its hats, says Peets, a-settin' down on a box up at Jack's head, 'an' as many as can will please get somethin' to camp on.
It was readin' Scriptures to him she was when I come away, and him a-settin' there, right pitiful, a-tellin' her how he'd lost all he had in the flood. A religious talkin' man if I ever heard one." "Red-headed?" inquired Myrtella, arresting a hot iron in mid air. "He was." "When she gits done with him, you send him over here," Myrtella brought the iron down on the board with a thud.
Bambye he open his eyes an' deh, across de table, wuz a big black cat a-settin' an' lookin' at him. Lijah, he don' say nothin' an' de cat say nothin', jes' look outa' his big green eyes. Bambye de lamp, it go down an' den it flame up bright, an' Lijah, he look at de cat an' he think it biggah dan befo'. De cat, it riz up and stretch an' it seem powahful big. Lijah, he riz up, too.
"What do you think of the story?" queried the sheriff. "If that Robinson Crusoe guy had only had a hoss instead of a bunch of goats, he sure could have made them natives ramble. And he sure took a whole lot of time blamin' himself for his hard luck always a-settin' back, kind o' waitin' for somethin' instead of layin' out in the brush and poppin' at them niggers.
"I went in to make up the room," blubbered she, "an' she was just settin' there, an' I spoke to her an' she didn't answer an' I called to her, an' she didn't answer she's just a-settin' there right now." As a cloud sweeps over a gray, broken moor, so now horror swept upon us in our distress and grief. We paused one moment to listen, then went on to see what we knew we must see.
"She 'lowed he warn't nigh so tarrifyin' 'roun' his own house, a-feedin' the peegs, an' ploughin' an' cuttin' wood, an' sech, occupied somehows, ez he war a-settin' up in his Sunday best at her house, with nuthin' ter do, allowin' she hed ter marry him, whether or not, 'kase he wouldn't hev 'No' fur a answer."
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