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Updated: July 23, 2025
The woman stood in the centre of the kitchen with her arms akimbo a huge raw-boned creature of a rough, frontier type. She spoke at last. "Well, you're a sight!" "Been celebratin', Nell," she chuckled gleefully, "been celebratin' my S'preme Moment." "You'd better git in there and fix that feller's arm or we'll be celebratin' a funeral," the woman answered curtly. "He's bleedin' like a stuck pig."
And to judge by the looks of a table I got a squint at behind a screen, they'd been doin' a little preliminary celebratin'. However, they all salutes respectful and Hartley had just started to shoot off his speech, which begins, of course: "Speaking as a military man " when this Beans gent interrupts.
Then we would have government of the people by the people who were elected to govern them. That's the kind of government Lincoln meant. 0 what a glorious future for the city! Whenever I think of it I feel like goin' out and celebratin', and I'm really almost sorry that I don't drink.
He was sipping from his glass and had put a confidential hand on Thatcher's shoulder. He grinned at Carthy. "Well, sir," he said, "nobody has in-quired as to my celebration. But I'm not proud. I'll tell you. I'm celebratin' to-night the winnin' of a bet." "That's sure a deservin' cause," said Thatcher. "Yes, sir. Had a bet with Carthy here. Look at him blush! Carthy sure-ly hates to be wrong.
I've heard em tell it many a time. Dey say John Wynn had 185 slaves. Evy time it come George Washington's birthday, Old Wynn he had a feast and invite all de slaves! He celebratin! he say. He seta a long table wid all kind good tings to eat. An he count de slaves, so's to be sure dey all come. An' den he'd take an pick out one and shoot him! Den he say, "Now youse all can go 'head an eat.
But the war was near over then; I soon was as free as I am now. "I guess we musta celebrated 'Mancipation about twelve times in Hornett County. Every time a bunch of No'thern sojers would come through they would tell us we was free and we'd begin celebratin'. Before we would get through somebody else would tell us to go back to work, and we would go.
He don't realize that celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em." Three times more did Henri enter and demand a bottle of the famous vintage, and each time he seemed a shade less buoyant. His elation diminished as his tips grew greater until, as he drew up at the bar at six o'clock, he seemed wrapped in impenetrable gloom.
"Oh, Colonel Brereton," she called, "save us, I beg!" "What are you about?" demanded the new-comer, sternly, of the crowd. "We 're celebratin' independence," explained he in the cart, "and all we wants of this miss is that she buss her friend Miss Shy Anna. They both is British sympathisers." "Be off with you, every doodle and rag-tail of you!" ordered the officer, angrily.
My great-great-grandfather, Hatevil Allen, bought it of Ohbejoyful Gowdey, and the papers wuz signed the very day the other momentous purchase wuz made. "There wuz fourteen children in the family of old Hatevil, jest as many as there is States in the purchase they are celebratin' to St. Louis.
"There's one thing about this affair that I'm goin' to praise it was hearty and satisfyin'. It has dulled the celebratin' appetite in this town for some time." He went into town office. The constable followed and laid a paper before him.
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