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"He's got a tongue like a tanner's vat, that goozer. Wants a lump o' lead in 'is baskit 'e does." "'E done a good turn at Hetmeyer's Kopje," added the Second. "If it hadn't been for 'im the S.A.'s would have had a new Colonel" he jerked his head towards the house, from which came the murmur of men's voices talking earnestly.
"She ought to be deaf anyhow, considering the row she kicks up down there!" "Come now, Geo'ge, it's time we was goin'. So pick up de baskit an' go ahead." Bidding Mrs Lilly an affectionate adieu, the two shaves left the cellar, to the intense relief of poor Hester, who scarce knew whether to laugh or cry over the visit.
Oct. 19. I have got a new box of paper collers. Oct. 20. brite and fair. this afternoon me and Fatty Melcher wirked all the afternoon puting leafs in old Putty Lowjys barn. old Putty said he wood pay us but when we asked him for our pay he said we cood have all the horse chesnuts we wanted. so we got a baskit and picked it full and went back to Fattys and pluged horse chesnuts at old Puttys cat.
"I don't wish no talk 'bout it, Lizay," Alston said. His tone was half sad, half peremptory. "Yer mustn't feel haud agin me ef I tells you somethin', Als'on. Yer's been puttin' cotton in my baskit unbeknownst ter save me some lashes, an' yer throw'd it up ter me yistiddy. Now, look yere, Als'on: I's been he'pin' yer all this week, ever since Mr. Buck said yer got ter git a hunderd.
The some one was Edny Ann: "Yer's stealin' thar': I see'd yer do it see'd yer takin' cotton outen Als'on's baskit. Ain't yer shame, yer yaller good-fer-nuffin'? I's gwine ter tell." This was the terrible accusation. "Yer dun know nothin' 'tall 'bout it," said Little Lizay. "It's my cotton. I emptied it in Als'on's baskit when I didn't go ter do it.
This started a new train of thought in Anderson's perplexed mind. "Mebby she was waitin' there while some one her husband, fer instance was leavin' the baskit," volunteered Isaac Porter humbly. "Don't bother me, Ike; I'm thinkin' of somethin' else," muttered Anderson. "Husband nothin'! Do you s'pose she'd 'a' trusted that baby with a fool husband on a terrible night like that?
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