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"We comes ter ye," Aaron gave him unambiguous answer, "because ef ther Harpers hev got ter fight, that hain't no health in divided leaderships ner dilatary delays.... Some men seems ter hold thet because ye wed with Old Caleb's gal, ye're licensed ter stand in Old Caleb's shoes ... whilst others seems plum resolved not ter tolerate ye atall an' spits ye outen thar mouths."
You see some has so much and others hardly can live atall. "It is not for me to say about the young generation. I have mighty little to do with any of them. "I have voted but not lately. I never did understand voting." Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Victoria Sims, Helena, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in Limestone County, Alabama. It was on a river.
It was close to Livingston, Alabama, where we lived. "I was twelve years old when de stars fell. Dey fell late in de night an' dey lighted up de whole earth. It's a wonder some of' em didn' hit us, but dey didn'. Dey never hit de groun' atall. He said it was his pony an' I said it was mine.
Now we've done got tergither over thar an' they've despatched me hyar ter give ye our message an' take back yore answer." "Thet is ter say," amended the firebrand with significant irony, "providin' we concludes ter let ye take back any message atall." Thornton did not turn his head but held with his eyes the faces of old Jim and Hump Doane and it was still to them that he addressed himself.
"Better to have loved a short man Than never to have loved atall." "Baron, I I'll spank!" "Worth her weight in gold!" "Where you got all that money soaked, Big Tent?" "Aw, Mr. Jastrow, the Baron's only tormenting me." "She sleeps on a pillow stuffed with greenbacks." "Sure I got a few dollars saved, and I ain't ashamed of it.
"Didn't stop to light your pipe or nothing?" enquired Ike. "Blank your blank ugly mug!" roared Carroll, "do you mean to say, " "Oh, nothing," said Ike quietly. "Just wanted to know how long you stopped?" "And I am tellin' you we didn't sthop atall, atall, not a fut of us! We didn't go near their camp within fifty yard." "Not fifty yards, eh? Well, that's strange."
It was not until after she was freed and had sent her children to school that she changed her name to Louisa. Sam and Norfolk spent part of their childhood on the plantation of "Big Jim" who was very cruel; often he would whip his slaves into insensibility for minor offences. He sometimes hung them up by their thumbs whenever they were caught attempting to escape "er fer no reason atall."
"So long es he lived," came the hunchback's quick and stingingly sharp retort, "we didn't need ter ask no questions atall an' thar warn't no prophets amongst us ter foresay he was goin' ter die suddent-like, without tellin' us what we needed ter know. Will ye give us them facts thet we're askin' fer or won't ye?" "I won't," said Maggard, shortly.
The mirth began with the first representation of the Rehearsal, and continued down to the last edition of the Dunciad, But Sir Robert, in spite of his bad verses, and of some foibles and vanities which had caused him to be brought on the stage under the name of Sir Positive Atall, had in parliament the weight which a stanch party man, of ample fortune, of illustrious name, of ready utterance, and of resolute spirit, can scarcely fail to possess, When he rose to call the attention of the Commons to the case of Oates, some Tories, animated by the same passions which had prevailed in the other House, received him with loud hisses.
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