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Wa'al, it wa'n't the lickin' I got, though that had somethin' to do with it, but I'd never have had the spunk to run away's I did if it hadn't ben for the heartenin' Billy P. gin me, an' never knowed it, an' never knowed it," he repeated mournfully. "I alwus allowed to pay some o' that debt back to him, but seein' 's I can't do that, Mis' Cullom, I'm glad an' thankful to pay it to his widdo'."
Awful smooth' but' murderin'. Are you game, Porky, to land him ourselves?" "Sure!" said Porky. "Ain't I alwus? What comes first?" "Le's think," said Beany. You would not have thought they were thinking at all as they sat on the broad brick steps, holding their chins in their right hands, left hands twisting their puttee lacers.
"What'll you have?" said David to Mrs. Cullom, "dark meat? white meat?" "Anything," she replied meekly, "I'm not partic'ler. Most any part of a turkey 'll taste good, I guess." "All right," said David. "Don't care means a little o' both. I alwus know what to give Polly piece o' the second jint an' the last-thing-over-the-fence. Nice 'n rich fer scraggly folks," he remarked.
My father and D'ri made the coffin of planed lumber, and lined it with deerskin, and dug the grave on top of a high hill. When all was ready, my father, who had always been much given to profanity, albeit I know he was a kindly and honest man with no irreverence in his heart, called D'ri aside. "D'ri," said he, "ye 've alwus been more proper-spoken than I hev. Say a word o' prayer?"
Alwus quarrelled with my own folks, an' now I ain't got any home. Someday I'm goin' t' die in the poorhouse er on the ground under these woods. But I tell ye' here he spoke in a voice that grew loud with feeling 'mebbe I've been lazy, as they say, but I've got more out o' my life than any o' these fools. And someday God'll honour me far above them.
"She's the one I told you about that run off with my hoss," remarked David, "an' I alwus look after him fer her in the winter." "Yes, I know," said John. "She was laughing about it to-day, and saying that you and she were great friends." "She was, was she?" said David, highly pleased.
'It's one o' the fool notions that my wife an' the girls brought home f'm Eurup. I have a good solid meal in the mornin', same as I alwus did, he says." Mr.
"'Wa'al, I says, 'mebbe you won't, mebbe you will, it's alwus a pleasure to meet ye, I says, 'but in that case this morgidge bus'nis 'll be a question fer our executors, I says, 'fer you don't never foreclose that morgidge, an' don't you fergit it, I says. "'Oh, you'd like to git holt o' that prop'ty yourself. I see what you're up to, he says.
Purty fair slidin' up in the air 'most anywheres, ye know. Alwus come down by the nighest way. 'T was darker 'n pitch; could n't see a thing, nut a thing. Hearn Ray come out o' the box 'bove me. Then I come down k'slap in th' water 'n' sunk. Thought I 'd never stop goin' down. 'Fore I come up I hearn Ray rip int' th' water nigh me. I come up 'n' shook my head, 'n' waited.
"You do as I tell ye," the "Colonel's" wife insisted. "I alwus obey your orders. Now I want you to take one from me." "All right," the man answered. "If I see anything that looks good to me, I'll buy it if I can." As the two men were riding toward the village, Samson said: "Kind o' makes my heart ache to leave home even for a little while these days.
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