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Updated: May 10, 2025
Well, that was about the last thing anybody was expecting and everybody hustled up off the barrels and boxes where they was a-setting and looked with all their eyes. Sure enough, there the old coach was just as it always was, about that time of day coming along as natural as you please.
"Madman? pick up money? tell us how it was, Ben," interposed female curiosity. "Well, neighbours, listen: I was a-setting my night-lines round Pike Island yonder, more nor a fortnight back; it was a dark night and a mizzling, or morning rather, 'twixt three and four; by the same token, I'd caught a power of eels.
"And I 'd jus' like to see a man inside of a whale a-setting under a morning-glory vine." "The whale vomicked him up," said Jimmy. "What sorter thing is a octopus like what y' all say is in Miss Pollie Bumpus's head?" asked Billy. "'Tain't a octopus, it's a polypus," explained Frances, "'cause she's named Miss Pollie. It's a someping that grows in your nose and has to be named what you's named.
"'By William Jones, says I, 'who is a-setting in that kitchen right next door, a-wooing the hired girl. "I was bold about it, sir, because I knowed William Jones daresn't strike at me while the officer was there. "'We'll see about that, says the officer, and in he goes to Mr. Muffitt's yard next door and comes back with William Jones. I have no use for a man like William Jones.
Quoth she to him, a-setting of her little black pate to one side, and of her little brown arms akimbo quoth she, "Since the Lord hath not made me a lad," quoth she, "I cannot more than act like one; and so I will do!" Quoth he, "Thou hast a sour name, a bitter tongue, and a peppery temper, jade; and the two last be not gifts o' the Lord."
"Do you know, sir, at that very moment you could hear through the partition William Jones and Bella Dougherty laughing next door! It seemed like mockery to me, a-setting there in chains, so to speak. "'He is next door, ma'am, I said, 'a-courting the hired girl. "'I will prove if thee is telling the truth, she said, and she got up and moved toward the door.
He never showed it, but kept smoking and yarning with Starlight, pointing out how grand the sun was just a-setting on the Bulga Mountains just for all the world as if he'd given a picnic, and was making himself pleasant to the people that stayed longest. At long last they'd got to the end of the conning, and divided the notes.
Her little bucket and dish of dinner is a-setting cold on the table and a little draggled rose she had brung in not a hour back is still in Mis' Bostick's fingers, and the other one pinned on the Deacon's coat.
Pastor's sal'ry; he says he plumb tired supporting Brother Johnson and all his family; and, he say, every time he go up town he sees Johnny Johnson a-setting on a stool in Baltzer's drug store just a-swigging milk-shakes; he says he going to knock him off some day 'cause it's his nickels that kid's a-spending."
One dark night he was a-setting in his ante-room pondering over the past and wondering what had become of that feller's head and also what had become of his widder, who was a most bewitching creature and would make any man a most desirable wife, especially if he didn't have one already which Grandpa didn't. All of a sudden he heard a voice speaking to him as if from a graveyard.
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