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Tell all them that ar'n't ready to start to follow at a hard gallop, and join me at the ford of Kentucky; and them that can't join me thar, let them follow to Lexington; and them that don't find me thar, let them follow to Bryant's, or to any-whar whar thar's Injuns! Hurrah, you brutes! whar's your guns and your horses? your knives and your tomahawks?
"Don't do business on Sundays; but you can step in, young gentlemen, and look about you. 'Twon't cost you a cent: and I've things you won't see any-whar else on this Atlantic coast, brass, pottery, old silver, old books, old papers, prints of rare value and interest. A Harvard professor spent two hours the other day looking over my collection."
"Brother Abe, that 's what we've all agreed to call yew, by unanimous vote, yew set right here at the foot of the table. Aunt Nancy always had the head an' me the foot; but I only kept the foot, partly becuz thar wa'n't no man fer the place, an' partly becuz I was tew sizable ter squeeze in any-whar else.
"Yes, honey, I'se skyeert ter go out any-whar; I'se so skyeert uv Tight-fis' Smith." "He's awful mean, ain't he?" asked Dumps. "Dat he is chile," replied the man; "he's cruel an' bad." "Then don't you ever go back to him," said Dumps. "You stay right here an' me'n Diddie'll bring you ev'ything ter eat, an' have you fur our nigger."
The maniacs, with commendable promptness, jerked Severne to his feet. Several more bent over his horse. "Jess's I thought!" shouted one of these. "Jess's I thought! He's stole this cayuse. This is Hank Smith's bronc. I'd know him any-whar!" "That's right! Bar O brand!" cried several. Then men who held him yanked Severne here and there. "End of yore rope this trip!
"This is a hurry-up age," was the sagacious assertion, "and ef you air agoin' to git any-whar, you've got ter go by wire instead of by mail, and you can't start too soon." "You can't start nothing without capital," argued the grocer conservatively. "Oh," admitted the young financier, "a little capital mebby. I've got a dollar I've saved up from odd jobs."
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