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"If they are as beet out as we be they'd be glad to set down on anything a Conference or anything else." And I sez, a-wipin' the presperatin of hard labor from my forwerd, "For the land's sake! Yes! I should think so." And then with giddy heads and strainin' armpits we tackled the meetin' house agin.
"'As to brands an' y'earmarks, says the party, a-wipin' of his eye, 'he's shy a couple of teeth, bein' milk-teeth as he's shed; an' thar's a mark on his for'ard where his mother swipes him with a dipper, that a-way, bringin' him up proper. That's all I remembers quick.
He bawled about island horses and Barbadian horses for the Barbadians mustered strong, and a fight was expected, which, however, never came off; he sang songs, possibly some of them extempore, like that which amused one's childhood concerning a once notable event in a certain island 'I went to da Place To see da horse-race, I see Mr. Barton A-wipin' ob his face.
"If they are as beet out as we be they'd be glad to set down on anything a Conference or anything else." And I sez, a-wipin' the presperatin of hard labor from my forwerd, "For the land's sake! Yes! I should think so." And then with giddy heads and strainin' armpits we tackled the meetin' house agin.
"Dum 'em, I say!" sez he, out of its red and yeller depths. "I'd love to skin the hull on 'em, Judge and Jury." And I sez meanin'ly, "Now, do you want to go and be intimate with them law-makers, Josiah Allen?" "No," sez he, a-wipin' his eyes and a-lookin' mad, "no, I don't! I want sunthin' to eat!" And I riz up imegatly, and got a good dinner a extra good one.
"One day, at dinner-time, I seed the judge astandin' at the court-room door, a-wipin' his forrid with a handkerchief, an' I went up to him an' said, 'Do you think, sir, they'll get through this thing soon? "'I can't say, indeed, said he. 'Are you interested in the case? "'I should think I was, said I, an' then I told him about Jone's bein' a juryman, an' how we was on our bridal-trip.
"Wal, the verdick of it was, after I'd laid into Ty, I went down to major with the five-dollar bill an' another atop of it, all I had in this livin' world 'An' ef that 's any objec', major, says I, a-wipin' of my eyes, 'it's all I c'n do.
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