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The big-eyed owl a-settin' on a limb With nary a wink nur nod, The big-eyed owl a-settin' on a limb, Is a-singin' a sort of a solemn hymn Of "Hoo! hoo-ah!" at God. Albert could not resist a temptation to smile at this last line. "I know, stranger. You think a owl can't sing to God. But I'd like to know why!
He made that body of men appoint a board of Lady Managers two ladies from each State and Territory, and eight lady managers at large, and nine at Chicago." That name "Lady Manager" wuz done by Uncle Sam's over-politeness to the sect, and I don't know as Josiah wuz to blame. You would think by the name that them ladies wuz a-settin' in rows of gilded chairs, a-holdin' a rosy in their hands.
"Hast been with the hounds to-day?" enquired the honest squire. "Ah, sir, and that I have," was the reply; "and never have I seen such sport before. For seven long hours they made the welkin ring, and ran like swallows o'er the plain." "Please to step in; we be just a-settin' down to supper a cold capon and a venison pasty.
Marty went out on the porch to hail him. "'I wish I was a bump A-settin' on a log, Baitin' m' hook with a flannel shirt For to ketch a frog! "And when I'd ketched m' frog, I'd rescue of m' bait An' what a mess of frog's hind laigs I wouldn't have ter ate!" "Come on in, Walky, and rest your voice."
Miss Peedick had unexpected company come in, jest as they wuz a-settin' down to the dinner-table, and she hadn't hardly anything for dinner, and the company wuz very genteel a minister and a Justice of the Peace so she wanted to borrow a loaf of bread and a pie.
"'Tisn't an extry good time, you know," said Mrs. Cole. "Pretty near July. But, if you'd like to try it, I daresay we've got some hens that want to set." "The old yellow hen's a-settin'," exclaimed the little girl who had listened with greedy interest to every word of the conversation. Rosetta Muriel looked wearily out of the window, as if she found herself bored by the choice of topics.
It had proved, however, but an inferior defense against the onslaught of the younger man in his frantic efforts to save his own neck. They looked at each other in panting amazement, until the older man recovered his breath, and spoke: "Gosh and all beeswax! The Wild Ram of the Mountains a-settin' on the Lute of the Holy Ghost's stomach a-chokin' him to death. My sakes!
We'll go up thar, trail 'em down an' make 'em laff if they kin, a-settin' among the live coals. But that Red Eagle, wise old chief that he is, will up an' say: 'They haven't got through. They couldn't without bein' seen by our scouts an' watchers. An' since they haven't passed, it follers that they're somewhar inside the ring.
The Lord knows I'm not proud, but I won't go into them chairs down by the font myself; but to see them Harrises, that to my certain knowledge hasn't a bite of butcher's meat in their heads but onst a week, a-settin' theirselves up " "Now, Mrs. Eccles, you know perfectly well all the seats are free in the evening."
It is a pity, sir," he added, in a burst of confidence, "for he don't seem well. He's a-settin' there with the lamp turned down, and his face in his hands." "Is he alone, then?" asked the doctor. "Oh yes, sir," answered Jenkins, in manifest surprise. "Has nobody been to see him since he came in?" "No, sir, nobody," said Jenkins, in wider surprise than before.
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