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Is the offspring a-takin' his oats reg'lar? 'Lord! said Mrs. Mathews irrelevantly, subsiding into a chair, 'I thought you was dead. You never writ. 'That, said Mathews, 'was conseckens of a understanding clear and likewise to the point, atwixt me and Mas'r Dick. "Mum's the word," sez he. "Mum's the word," sez I. And that there was as it should be, no argifyin' provin' contrairiwise.
'You're allus a-takin' intrust in the Gorgios, and yet you're allus a-makin' believe as you hate 'em. 'You say Winifred Wynne is back again? I cried in an eager voice. 'That's jist what I did say, and I ain't deaf, my rei.
What a long time it is gettin' light this mornin'. To think of you, a-takin' care of me, like this! An' I ain't never done a thing for you excep' the headaches and sweepin', an' even that was nicer for me than for you. I knew you was awful good, but I never knew you was religious before, Miss De Courcy. Nobody but folks that has religion does such things, they say.
I guess the whole jing-bang of it turned his head, for he goes bad and loco thereafter, and begins shootin' and r'arin' up an' down the hull Southwest, a-roarin' and a-bellerin' and a-takin' on amazin'. We dasn't say boo to a yaller pup while he's round. I never see such mean blood. Jus' let the boys know that Peg-leg was anyways adjacent an' you can gamble they walked chalk.
'Blessin's on the man that invented it, says I, 'and put folks in the notion of havin' their lawns kept neat, 'cause they could do it cheap. And there's what Andy and Jim has made a-drivin' the cows, and Barney and Tommie a-takin' care of the geese. Wennott's the town for them as can work. And bad luck to lazy bones anyway. It's thankful I am I've got none of 'em in my family."
"Ain't we never a-goin' to start?" inquired Jeremy, staring out of the window, with his back to us. "And where," said I, "where might you be taking me?" "Why, since you ax, my covey, we 'm a-takin' you where you'll be took good care on, where you'll feed well, and 'ave justice done on you trust us for that.
"'Course I be," says the Benjamin; "but that's neither here nor there, I've died every year sence I can remember." "Don't it hurt?" says the boy. "No, it don't," says the posy; "it's real nice. You see, you get kind o' tired a-holdin' up your head straight and lookin' peart and wide awake, and tired o' the sun shinin' so hot, and the winds blowin' you to pieces, and the bees a-takin' your honey.
From the ford it's a quarter-mile walk to Miss Blake's house. You c'n cache your bundle and she'll likely get it for you in the mornin'. We had ought to be there by sundown. Her trail from the ford's clear enough. I'm a-takin' this lumber to the Gover'ment bridge forty mile up.
"Da's sumpin' got t' be did fo' all dese starbin white ladies an' gemmen ya-as sah! Dey is jes' about drivin' me mad. I kyan't stan' it." "What can't you stand, Nicodemus?" demanded Mr. Carter, good-naturedly. "Dey is a-groanin' an' a-takin' on powerful bad 'cause dey ain't no dining kyar cotched up wid us yet." "Dining car caught up with us?" gasped Nan and Bess together.
Julia wished he were different, and then she looked at Hubert. She longed to throw herself into his arms and weep. But at that moment the heavens seemed to open, and the rain came down like a torrent, thick and fast, splashing all along the road in a million splashes. 'Horrible weather, sir; shan't be long a-takin' you to Southwater. What part of the town be yer going to the railway station?
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