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They're amazin' proud an' ch'ice of 'em, an' ye don't want to hurt their feelin's, but ye'd better shove 'em right outer the sasser inter yer britches pocket 'n eat 'em leastways that 's the way they 'fected me." Visions of a past mortal suffering flitted across Captain Pharo's face. "I'll try," I said.
I'd a heap ruther marry Jeff Hackberry to make sure o' havin' him shot than to save him from shootin'." "You hain't no choice, Madam," said Shorty severely. "Law and orders is strict on that pint." "Well, then," said she, "since hit's a ch'ice betwixt death and Jeff Hackberry, I'll take Jeff Hackberry, though I wouldn't take him on no other terms, and I'm afeared I'm makin' a mistake as hit is."
"It's tough on you, I know, but think of all them poor sufferin' females that's settin' up nights and worryin' for fear they won't be picked out. Why, say, when you make your ch'ice you'll have to let the rest know right off; 'twould be cruelty to animals not to. You ought to put 'em out of their misery quick's possible." Captain Jerry's laugh was almost dismal.
Griggs expostulated, as it were, "that them gals at the Cross-roads is in no way desirable, -specially this hyar Elviry Mills, ez mighty nigh all the boys on the mounting hev los' thar wits about, what little wits ez they ever hed ter lose, I mean ter say. But Nate thinks he hev got a right ter a ch'ice, bein' ez he air turned twenty-one." "Did he say when he 'lowed ter come back?" Birt asked.
If I had my ch'ice of all the diseases in the calendar, that's the one I wouldn't take. Some on 'em you hev the comfort of knowin' you'll die of 'em if ye live long enough." He chuckled a little. "But this one, ye can't die and ye can't get well." "But he is going to get well?" The girl's eyes held him. "Yes, he'll be all right if he can set out in the wind a spell and the sun. The fever's broke.
Ye wadna gang on i' this warl' for ever?" "'Deed and I would have no objection so long as there were pretty girls like you in it." "Suppose the lasses had a ch'ice tu, my lord?" "What would they do?" "Gang, I'm thinkin'." "What makes you so spiteful, Aggie? I never did you any harm that I know of." "Ye ken the story o' the guid Samaritan, my lord?" said Aggie. "I read my bible, I hope."
And Jack Thistlewood's a bulldog. Mek your ch'ice betwixt 'em while they'm there to be chose from. Which is it to be? Butterfly or bulldog? But Bertha answered nothing. Things may have changed of late years, but in those days the parish churchyard was the great meeting-place for lovers who as yet were undeclared or unaccepted.
"Well, Major," said Marble, "you have only to let your taste be known, to have the ch'ice among all our youngsters to be her companion. There is Mr. Talcott, a well-edicated and mannerly lad enough, and of good connexions, they tell me; and as for Captain Wallingford here, I will answer for him.
"Well, governor, they do say that 'many men, many minds," he replied, after a brief pause; "and I suppose it's as true about religion, as in a judgment of ships, or in a ch'ice of a wife. If all men took to the same woman, or all seamen shipped for the same craft, a troublesome household, and a crowded and onhealthy vessel, would be the upshot on't."
Wa'al, I says, 'one year when the poultry was comin' along, a family o' skunks moved onto the premises an' done so well that putty soon, as the elder said, it seemed to him that it was comin' to be a ch'ice between the chickin bus'nis an' the skunk bus'nis, an' though he said he'd heard the' was money in it, if it was done on a big enough scale, he hadn't ben edicated to it, he said, and didn't take to it any ways.
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