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Updated: June 10, 2025
The idee o' him a-settin' up 'at yo' dishes ain't clean! That shore do beat all!" And he had executed an exchange of plates under Cornelia's deprecating eyes. And so the matter went. Again, upon a June day, Sammy was at play with the scion of the only negro family which had ever been known in all the Turkey Track regions.
Bes that yerself, Nick Leary?" "Aye, skipper, aye," replied Nick. The two were now at the top of the path, staring anxiously at the skipper through the gloom. Leary's head was still in a bandage. "We was jist a-settin' out to look for ye, skipper," said Bill. Black Dennis Nolan laughed at that. "Was ye t'inkin' I couldn't find me way back to me own harbor, in fair weather?" he asked.
"We did stay outside a-kickin' of our heels for above half-an-hour, an' then we did come in an' there they was a-settin' one on each side of the fire so comfortable as you could wish. Sarah looked up when I opened the door, an' she says straight out, 'We've pretty nigh settled things, but I shan't give my promise until I've had a look round Mr. Domeny's place.
"Wall," sez I, "if I had to do one of 'em to entertain the Missionary Society at Jonesville, I d'no but I had jest as soon hist Submit Tewksbury up in the air, and suspend her there in our parlor, as to cast mists before the eyes of the Jonesvillians and make 'em see her there when she wuz a-settin' on the sofa. Either one on 'em is queer queer as a dog."
And then another and another of the white-robed figgers, a-glidin' round in amongst the arches, or a-settin' there in a vista of gorgeousness, like ghosts of the past come to visit the Columbus Fair.
Don't say it's that there Miss 'Arringay 'oo wos a-settin' 'er cap so 'ard at 'im the other night? I was a little taken aback. 'Yes, that's about it, I confessed. 'Well, upon my soul, the sorcy baggage, burst out Elizabeth with unexpected wrath, 'such imperence after me workin' an' plannin' the way I 'ave. But she shan't 'ave 'im. Look 'ere, 'm, Miss Marryun is just the one fer 'im.
Andrew coughed hoarsely but went on again after a minute, speaking more to himself than Dickie who, indeed, did not understand nearly all he had been saying. "When I got into the `Blue Bonnet' there wur three or four more of my chums a-settin' round the fire an' havin' a argyment. `'Ere, says one, `we'll hear what Andrew Martin's got to say to it.
I seed how the land lay, fer I knowed she'd ruther die, religion ur no religion, 'an come right out in so many words an' say she wus sorry. You know I believe as I'm a-settin' heer 'at thar'll be folks meetin' on the golden sands of eternity, by the River of Life, 'at'll pass one another with the'r noses in the air; but I'll take that back.
Despite his anxiety a slow light of ridicule began to kindle on his face; his curling lip showed his strong white teeth. "Waal, by gum! ye mus' hev been a sight ter be seen! Ye, forty or fifty years old, a-settin' on the same seat with the chil'n at the deestric' school, an' a-competin' with the leetle tadpoles fur 'Baker an' Shady' an sech!"
"That Josiah Allen's wife looked like a fool, and acted like one, a-settin' up a-ridin' whenever she went anywhere, while them that wuz full as likely walked afoot!" I took them remarks as a tribute to my greatness a plain acknowledgement of my superior means of locomotion and transportation. They didn't break the puff ball of my vanity and pride, and let the wind out no, indeed!
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