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You'll need un both t' sail the skiff." "I'm thankin' you, Davy, lad," said he. "'Tis kind o' you t' spare them." "An' I'm wishin' you well." He picked at a thread in his cap. "No," he persisted, doggedly, "she were so wonderful scared o' hell she fair couldn't come t' harm. I brung her up too well for that.
He brung down some gray britches to the kitchen to see if I couldn' press an' clean 'em right quick: they was the ones Miss Jane, when she's paintin' all them sunsets, lef' her paint-box open, an' one them sunsets got on these here gray britches, Miz Baxter; an' hones'ly, Miz Baxter, he's fixed 'em in a condishum, tryin' to git that paint out, I don't believe it 'll be no use sendin' 'em to the cleaner.
"Yearly in de mawnin' de niggers all swarm' up in de yard. Mars Dugal' wuz feelin' so kine dat he had brung up a bairl er cider, en tole de niggers all fer ter he'p deyselves. "All dey han's on de plantation come but Dave; en bimeby, w'en it seem lack he wa'n't comin', Mars Dugal' sont a nigger down ter de quarters ter look fer 'im.
Cordially the boys made him welcome, and the time passed quickly when they had led Silas round to talking about his adventures in the far West. When at last the gold miner rose to go he said: "I brung some presents for you. They'll be useful in the West." And from his pockets Silas drew forth two fine big jackknives and two long pieces of thong.
"My pappy's name was Steve Hutchins. He b'long to de Hutchins what live down near Silver Creek. He jus' come on Satu'd'y night an' us don' see much of 'im. Us call him 'dat man. Mammy tol' us to be more 'spectful to 'im 'cause he was us daddy, but us aint care nothin' 'bout 'im. He aint never brung us no candy or nothin'. "My mammy was name Lucy Berry.
"Yis," replied the contractor frankly. "There was some Irish rascals at the pub. thonder, where we stapped las' night; an' wan word brung on another, an' at long an' at last we fell to, so we did; on' A'm dam but they got the betther o' me, being three agin wan. A b'lee some o' me ribs is bruk." "I'm sorry to hear that," said Thompson, straining a point for courtesy.
Kina cowardly fellers, them mush-rats, so I brung it myself. Say, when ye going to get up and paste me?" "When you put those turkey-red trousers on your mule," I said. And then we both laughed, and Aunty May give him another picture-book, and some fruit, and asked him to come again, and he promised, and I lay back and heard his mule bells jingling up the path.
"Watch for an attack now maybe, Captain," Aaron Cochrane said to father. "That man the boys seen has rid in for a purpose. The whites are holding the Indians till they get orders from higher up. Maybe that man brung the orders one way or the other. They ain't sparing horseflesh, that's one thing sure." Half an hour after our return Laban attempted a scout under a white flag.
I'll work orful quiet." "And I can trust you not to touch any of the pictures or move anything?" "I'll be keerful," Amarilly assured him. "Jest show me whar to het up the water. I brung the soap and a brush." The artist lighted a gas stove, and, after carefully donning a long- sleeved apron, Amarilly put the water on and began operations. Her eyes shone with anticipation as she looked about her.
And then agin he brung up the utter worthlessness, and shiftlessness, and viciousness of the class I wuz a-talkin' about. And then I sez "How is anybody a-goin' to live pattern lives, when they are a-starvin' to death? And how is anybody a-goin' to enjoy religion when they are a-chokin'?"
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