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Updated: April 30, 2025
One could glimpse the upflinging of knees as two horses leaped closer and closer. "Well-l-he's keepin' Dave in sight that's more than what I expected he'd do," Jeff observed. It was Pop who suddenly gave a whoop that cracked and shrilled into falsetto. "Shucks a'mighty! Dave, he's a-whippin' up to keep the KID in sight!" he quavered. "Shucks a'MIGHTY, he 's a-comin'!" He was.
"What was the trouble?" "Well, one was a-gambling, and the other struck the overseer what was a-whippin' him." "Whipping him!" in horrified exclamation, quite as much at Aunt Rachel's matter-of-fact way of regarding the matter as at the deed itself. "Yas'm. He didn't do his work right and he whipped him. I speck he needed it." "But he's a grown man," Miss Smith urged earnestly.
It was about a bad little boy, who ate up all his sister's pep'mint drops. This was the worst of crimes, in Billy's eyes, for to him pep'mint drops were a sacred possession, not even to be lightly referred to. "His marmer," went on Billy, impressively, "kep' a-whippin' him, an' a-whippin' him, but it warn't no kind o' use, an' didn't do a mite o' good.
Poor old Caleb, when the neighbors had come flocking in, had kept repeating with childish sobs, "Mother hadn't ought to have whipped him! mother hadn't ought to have whipped him!" "Did Mrs. Thayer whip that boy?" the doctor had questioned, sharply, before all the women, and Caleb had sobbed back, hoarsely, "She was jest a-whippin' of him; I told her she hadn't ought to." That had been enough.
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