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Updated: June 21, 2025
Yet the day was near when the touch of those freckled hands was to seem to me kinder than the breath of flowers, as they bathed my foul-smelling wounds, and she would say, in the words of the old song, "Let me kiss him for his mother," and I should be helpless to prevent her. By and by the man raised his voice: "Why, yo' name is Smith, to be sho'! I thought you was jest a-tryin' to chaw me.
She was anxiously waiting for him, when Deacon Strong knocked at the door for the second time that afternoon. "Is Mr. Douglas back yet? he asked. "No, sah, he ain't," said Mandy, very shortly. She felt that Strong and Elverson had been "a-tryin' to spy on de parson all day," and she resented their visits more than she usually did. "What time are you expectin' him?"
"Now, don't bother me; you see the cakes is a-burnin' already," but Melindy did not complete the sentence for the toot of a horn near the barnyard proved that her better half had some grounds for his conjecture. "It's a gang of roughs a-tryin' to git somethin' to steal.
As I see this, and not knowin' what would ensue and take place in her clothin', I cast onto the wind my own fears, and the shrinkin' timidity of my sect, and graspin' my umbrell in my hand, I run along by the side of the lofty quadreped, a-tryin' to reach up and fix her a little. But I could not; her position wuz too lofty, the mount wuz too precipitous on which she sot.
"Your men didn't try to head 'em off." "How about that, boys?" inquired Conrad, turning to the younger men. A long, freckled, grinning ape stepped forward. "Well, it was this way: we was a-tryin' to head the herd off, and we didn't see the sheep till we was right into 'em " "That's a lie!" said Mose. "You drove the horses right down the valley into the sheep. I saw you do it."
"'I said dawg, says Paul, still a-tryin' to say 'duck. "'I know you did, says Jim, and then they clinched. Jim He broke his knife off, and the Dutchman soaked him with a beer mallet. 'But Mandy, says Jim to me, jest before he shet his eyes, 'I die content.
Wall, a-tryin' to save little Annie Gowdey from bein' squashed right down, Miss Gowdey throwed herself sideways and strained her back. She weighs two hundred, and is loose-jinted. And she hain't got over it to this day. She insists on't that she loosened her spine in the affair. And I d'no but she did! But the child wuz gin up to die.
I owned one las' year, but he died on me an' I can't get another nohow." "Did you walk here?" asked Beth. "Yes, miss; o' course. I've walked the hull county over a-tryin' to find Lucy. I don' mind the walking much." There was another pause, while old Will Rogers looked anxiously at the boy and the girl, and they looked at each other. Then Beth took out her purse.
"They kinder set one anuther off," it was frequently remarked, "her a-bein' so little and him so big, an' both of 'em stickin' to each other so clost. Lordy! 'tain't no use a-tryin' to part 'em. Sheby, she ain't a-goin' nowhar 'thout Tom, an' Tom, he h'aint a-goin' nowhars 'thout Sheby!"
"Hit's right tetchy business er has been a-tryin' to take Andy Proudfoot," the outlaw continued; "but, Dan, I'd got mighty tired, time you come. An' Euola " Kerry rose abruptly, the memory hot within him of Proudfoot's offer of the night before. The mountaineer got slowly to his feet. "They's somethin' I wanted to show ye, too, ye remember," he said.
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