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Updated: June 10, 2025
Now, ez Paul tells it, Ole Jupe, a-settin' up on his golden throne, wuz willin' to tote fair an' let the Greeks an' Trojans fight it out among theirselves, but the women critters, whut had more power than wuz good fur 'em, couldn't keep their hands off.
"I 'ain't teched nary drop, Sissy," Mr. Cullum returned, "but ever' time I think about that fool Bud Mines a-settin' out yander at Buck Snort, holdin' of a candle, and whisslin' fer snipe to run into that coffee-sack, I oh Lord!" He stopped to slap his thighs and roar again. Finally, wiping the tears of enjoyment from his eyes, he related the story of the night's adventure.
"And he made 'em so mad, a-settin' up there so peart and brave before 'em, givin' 'em as good as they sent givin' 'em hell right to their faces, you might say, that at last they made for him, some of them that you could see had been puttin' a new faucet into the cider barrel. I saw they meant to do him a mischief but Lord! what could I do against fifty, being then in the midst of a chill?
"Yes, I see;" and Royal turned the egg round thoughtfully for a moment, then suddenly put it down, and started off towards his wagon on a run. "Land sakes!" called out Rhoda; "what's come to you all at once to set off like that?" "Muskrats!" shouted Royal, with a laugh as he jumped into the wagon. "Ben a-settin' traps for 'em, eh?" Royal nodded as he went rattling down the driveway.
"Let me see the place," she said absently, her eyes glued to a paragraph describing a cannibal feast. "I's a-settin' on it right now," he replied. Another long silence ensued. Billy resolved to settle the matter. "I's gettin' sleepy," he yawned. "Aunt Minerva, I wants to say my prayers and go to bed." She laid her paper down and he dropped to his knees by her side.
Then she said softly: "Ever sence I knew you was alive, and after I sent that young man out to you and he told me about you, I jest been dreamin' of seein' you settin' there, smokin' your pipe, and me a-settin' here, talkin' to you, and I have come into this room more the last two weeks, lookin' at it, thinkin' how it would look with your things layin' around. You are alone, John, and I'm alone.
"The way I am," Polly persisted, sweetly. "See here, chile, is day why you been a-settin' up nights an' keepin de light burnin'?" "You mustn't say 'setting up; you must say 'sitting up. Hens set " "So do I," interrupted Mandy; "I's doin' it NOW." For a time she preserved an injured silence, then turned upon Polly vehemently.
And every one of them old engines by the help of machinery is moved and turned, just as if Old Time himself had laid his hour-glass offen his head, and wuz a-puttin' his old shoulders under their iron shafts, and a-settin' them to goin' agin, after so long a time.
And we couldn't any of us really make out from what she said what he wuz a-doin' there, whether he wuz a-movin' along on it to his work, or jest a-settin' there. But anyway she talked a good deal about his "bein' on the road," and how much better the children behaved "before he went on it." They jest rid over her, and over us too, if we would let 'em.
I wish she hadn't got to lookin' so old an' pitiful, though, a-settin' there in front o' us in church Sunday after Sunday. The cords stand out in her neck like well-rope, an' her chin keeps a-quiv'rin' so! I can see Orville a-watchin' her " The door opened suddenly and her mother entered. She was bristling with curiosity. "Say, Emarine!" She lowered her voice, although there was no one to hear.
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