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"He didn't wanta come right out 'n' shay what it was an' I got the aigs!" "Yes how many eggs?" Ford held himself rigidly quiet. "Two quart aigs!" Mose laughed at the joke. "I wisht," he added pensively, "the hens'd all lay them kinda aigs. I'd buy up all the shickens in the whole worl'." He gazed raptly upon the vision the words conjured. "Gee!
She opened the back door and led the old woman to the office. "Now, what have you got there?" she demanded, eyeing the basket. "Just a little chicken fo' you and a few aigs." "Oh, you are so thoughtful!" Sarah Smith's was a grateful heart. "Go 'long now hit ain't a thing."
"Do the colored people of Virginia make a practice of hunting for the eggs of wild birds, and eating them?" "Yes, indeed we do. In the spring and summer, when the birds are around, we used to get out every Sunday, and hunt all day. Some days we'd come back with a whole bucket full of aigs; and then we'd set up half the night, cookin' and eatin' 'em. They was awful good!"
And there, indisputably, were the porcupines, bothering her all the time, with unheard-of impudence. Weasels, indeed! "'Twa'n't you I was after," she muttered obstinately, apostrophizing the now motionless form in the rain-barrel. "It was them dratted porkypines, as comes after my aigs. But ye're a bad lot, too, an' I'm right glad to have got ye where ye won't be up to no mischief."
If you aim to hold her as a witness you can appoint a guard an' I'm the guard. D'you get me? 'Cause if there's any misunderstandin' lingerin' in them scrambled aigs you use fer brains, I'll just start out by tellin' the boys what a hell of a brave arrest you pulled off, an' about the nervy stand you made agin' odds to guard your prisoners when I yipped at you from the brush.
Ike is a ornery anamile little an' furtif mean enough to suck aigs, an' cunnin' enough to hide the shells. He hates everybody, this Ike does; an' he's as suspicious as Bill Johnson's dog, which last is that doubtful an' suspicious he shore walks sideways all his life for fear someone's goin' to kick him.
Hev you-uns got any aigs!" She sprang up, and, standing on agile tiptoe, peered without ceremony into their wagon. Instantly she recoiled with a cry of horrified reproach. "Thar 's ants in yer short-sweetenin'! How could you-uns let sechez that happen!" "Oh, surely not," exclaimed Purcell, hastening to her side. But the fact could not be gainsaid; the neglected sugar was spoiled.
All night Clem had babbled languidly of many things, of "a hunded thousan' hatchin' aigs," and "a thousan' brillion dollahs," of "Mahstah Jere" and "Little Miss," of a visiting Cousin Peavey whom he had been obliged to "whup" for his repeated misdemeanors; and darkly and often had he whispered, so low I could scarcely hear it, of an enemy that was entering the room with a fell design.
Through the barnyard smells began to drift...the greasiness of food cooking in the field kitchen. "Ah hope they give us somethin' good to eat," said Chrisfield. "Ah'm hongry as a thrasher." "So am I," said Andrews. "Say, Andy, you kin talk their language a li'l', can't ye?" Andrews nodded his head vaguely. "Well, maybe we kin git some aigs or somethin' out of the lady down there.
"I boun' you is, boss; I boun' you is. But you ain't seed no seetful jug like dat. Dar she sets a bellyin' out an' lookin' mighty fat an' full, an' yit she'd set dar a bellyin' out ef dere wuzzent nuthin' but win' under dat stopper. You knows dat she ain't got no aigs in her, ner no bacon, ner no grits, ner no termartusses, ner no shellotes, an' dat's 'bout all you duz know.
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