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Updated: June 7, 2025
He hurried down past the child, who called him "M'sieu Yankee," and elbowed his way through the group of soldiers who were standing about Uncle Sam. "Your timer bar's bent," one of them volunteered. Tom did not answer, but knelt and turned the grease cup, then wiped the nickel surfaces, bent and dented though they were, with a piece of cotton waste. Then he felt of his tires.
As I growed up, the bar had become scacer in them parts, and it wan't every day you could scare up such a varmint, but now and then one ud turn up. There war tracks o' the bar's paws in this mud, an' I follered them along the water edge for nearly a mile then the trail turned into about as thickety a bottom as I ever seed anywhar. It would a baffled a cat to crawl through it.
I suppose it war a fox or wolf, or some such thing, and but for me would a-made a meal off o' the bar's carcass. "I won't trouble you with my reflexshuns all that night; but I can assure ye they war anything but pleasant. I thought of my ole mother, who had nobody but me, and that helped to keep up my spirits. I detarmined to cut away at the bar, and hold out as long as possible.
Bar's nose; Orlando seemed putrified to stone, with his irons fixed to Mr. Hock's head; our respective patients gave a wince out: Mrs. C., Jemimarann, and Tug, rushed from the back shop, and we formed a splendid tableau such as the great Cruikshank might have depicted. "And Mr. John Tuggeridge, sir?" says I. "Why hee, hee, hee!" says Mr. Sharpus.
The difference between us is only, what they think, I act. But the immodest ones out-do the worst of us by a bar's length, both in thinking and acting. Whence can this be, but from a likeness in nature? And this made the poet say, That ever woman is a rake in her heart. It concerns them, by their actions, to prove the contrary, if they can.
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