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"My baby," she murmured; then lifted her glance with the question: "An' how come ye to have him? Did she did that womern " "No, no. 'Twas this-a-way," Pap interrupted her. "When I came back from Big Turkey Track, I went down through Hepzibah I couldn't git this chap's eyes ner his little hands out o' my head; I found myse'f a-studyin' on 'em the hull enjurin' time. She was dead when I got thar.
I guess I'll put my knitting-needle right through Nannie's ear while she's a-studyin'. The needle will look so funny stickin' out at the other end!" So Prudy was very sly about it, and said not a word, but began to push in the needle with all her might. O, such sharp screams as Nannie gave!
Ez fer these new-fangled doctorin's, they won't nary one ov 'em do the good yarbs will. I'd ruther trust bitter-goldenseal root to cure a ailment than all the durn physic in this here horspittle. I ben a-studyin' these here doctors, an' I don't take much stock in 'em; instid of workin' on a organ thet gets twisted, they ups and draws hit.
Thus encouraged, Carr continued: "And Old Mose Taylor, at the Mountain House Mitchell got his hearin' before him, you know he says Mitchell ain't surprised or excited or much worried, and makes no big kick, just sits quiet, a-studyin', and he's damned if he believes he ever done it. Oh, yes! Mose told me if I see you to tell you young Mitchell left some money in the safe for you."
They helped Opdyke into the house and bandaged a wound in his leg, but old Jim sat looking on with a stony face, and when the first aid had been administered he said shortly: "Parish Thornton an' me hev jest been a-studyin' erbout how ter handle ther likes of you. Ye come in good season an' so fur as kin be jedged from ther place whar thet ball hit, no man kin say which one of us ye shot at.
Here we two wuz on the surface of the Earth, and we had jest been a-studyin' in a entranced way the workin's of a mighty sperit, who wuz, in the first place, brung down from above the Earth, and now, lo and behold! we wuz on our way to see what wuz below the Earth. Curious and coincidin', very. Wall, as I walked acrost them few steps I thought of a good many things.
I'll go straight over and tell her so. I didn't dare bespeak him, but I was on nettles all night. I jest laid a-studyin' and a-studyin', and I says, 'Come mornin' I'll go straight and give her a curry-combin' that'll do her good. And I started a-feelin' pretty grim, and here you came to meet me, and wiped it all out of my heart in a flash.
Finally he laid his hand on my arm, and, with a curious, beseeching look, in his eyes, said: "'Sammy, all yesterday, when I was a-comin', I was a-studyin' about it, an' I couldn't git it out'n my mind. It come to me agin when I saw Marse Henry las' night, an' I wanted to tell him. But when I got up dis mawnin' an' see myself I knowed I couldn't ask ye, Sammy, an' I didn't.
Still, Barney had no proof of this, and he felt he would rather suffer unjustly himself than unjustly throw blame on another. "Nothin', nothin'," he said absently. "I war jes' a-studyin' 'bout'n it all." "Well, I wouldn't think about it any more just now," said good-natured Stebbins. "You look like you had been dragged through a keyhole instead of a window-pane.
"Yes," said Woodward, "they are curious." "Some days they er gwine rippitin' aroun' like the woods wuz afire, an' then ag'in they er mopin' an' a-moonin' like ever' minnit wuz a-gwine to be the nex'. I bin a-studyin' Sis sence she wan't no bigger'n a skinned rabbit, an' yit I hain't got to A, B, C, let alone a-b ab, u-b ub.
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