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Somehow they seem to rile her all up; and she was a-tellin' me yesterday, when she was a-hangin' out clothes, that she never should get reconciled to Decrees and 'Lection, 'cause she can't see, if things is certain, how folks is to help 'emselves.
I guess they kinder felt how lonesome he was. He couldn't get no more laughs in the show, so Barker had to put on another man with him. That kinder hurt him too I s'pose an' showed him the way that things was a-goin'. It was just after that, he wrote the parson a-tellin' him to never let you come back. He seemed to a' got an idee in his head that you was happier where you was.
She took it two three times after you left with me a-tellin' her 'bout that beauteous doll that was comin' to-morrow. But she's little and to-morrow looked slow in comin', so after 'while when I'd hold out the spoon, she'd just shake her head and say, 'No, no, no! Mammy tellin' story! Sweet Honey ain't comin'." "It is as I told you it would be, Mrs. Callahan," said Miss Margery.
The Lord have mercy upon me for the stories I've been a-tellin' of 'em, but I couldn't bear to see them two pore things a-pawnin' their little bits of jewelry and sich, and Mr. Le Breting, too, 'im as ain't fit to go knockin' together with underbred folks like pawnbrokers.
"Hit was settin' out 'n the woods. I was in Hazlan t'other night, Und' Gabe, to hear the new rider." The miller looked around with quick interest. "I've been skeered afore by riders a-tellin' 'bout the torments o' hell, but I never heerd nothin' like his tellin' 'bout the Lord.
Poll! don't you mind me a-tellin' you about my pore darter Winifred for my darter she was, as I'll swear afore all the beaks in London don't you mind me a-sayin' that if she wouldn't talk when she wur awake, she could mag away fast enough when she wur asleep; an' it were allus the same mag about dear little Henry, an' dear Henry Halywin as couldn't git up the gangways without 'er.
And on the first page was Miss Birdie's father, the mortician and arterialist." "The what?" we exclaimed. "Undertaker and em-bammer. He's an expert, too. Why, Miss Birdie was a-tellin' me " I ventured to interrupt him. "I don't think, Jasperson, I should like an undertaker for a father-in-law. Have you considered that point?" "I have, gen'lemen. It might come in mighty handy.
I've got my eye on you, nigger, an' sure as hokey-pokey thair it'll stay. You know my arrand yer, Dave: to save a pore, ignorant, deluded black woman from Joe Johnson's band. Now, you've been a-cryin 'Mercy! I want you to show mercy by a-tellin' of me whar I'm to overtake an' sarch Levin Dennis's cat-boat if it comes up the Nanticoke to-night with them people and Joe Johnson aboard!"
And so it went on for some time she a-tellin' out ever and anon loud and firm, "that she wanted to be found " and then bustin' into tears. "Oh, that will be joyful!" And Sister Lum sot down. Wall, that wuz what made Metilda Henn titter. And that was what made me bring forward that verse of scripter.
"'Kase," he blurted out, "ye hev been a-tryin' ter purtend ez ye fund the mine fust, an' hev been a-tellin' folks 'bout'n it." "Prove it," said Birt, in sudden elation. "Who war it I tole, an' when?" The sly Nathan caught his breath with a gasp. His craft had returned. Admit that to HIM Birt had divulged the discovery of the mine! Confess, when! This would invalidate the entry!
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