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Updated: May 27, 2025
"I don't know how, but they's lots of ways of killing a cat besides chokin' her with butter. He'll come in ef he don't blow us all sky-high!" Ralph's voice was now heard, demanding that the door be opened. "Let's open her," said Hank, turning livid with fear at the firm, confident tone of the master. Bud straightened himself up. "Hank, you're a coward. I've got a mind to kick you.
The little boy had started up in his crib, and was struggling, with his arms thrown wildly about. "There! There, he's got another of them chokin' spells!" screamed the mother. "Elbridge Newton, ain't you goin' to do anything? Oh help him, save him, Dr. Morrell! Oh, I should think you'd be ashamed to let him suffer so!"
Den ole Miss ax: 'Did you find 'im, son? 'Yes mam, Marse John say, 'I foun' 'im, all right. Ole Miss pat de back of his han', croonin' in dat soft voice of her'n: 'You'se a great comfo't, an' always so 'siderate of others! At dat, I jest bust plumb out a-laughin', but turned it to sich a wicked-soundin' chokin' spell dat dey's 'bleeged to lean over an' beat mah back; an' while Marse John wuz a-puttin' on de licks, an' mighty nigh killin' me, he whisper: 'You black rascal, ef you don' behave I'll shoot you nex' Sunday! Oh, dem wuz days what wuz days, Marse Bob; dey wuz fer a fac'! Ain' you-all gwine fight no one dis mawnin'?"
For answer Cameron clinched him savagely, gripping him by the throat and planting two heavy blows upon his ribs. "Here boys," gasped the young fellow, "he's chokin' the life out of me." From all sides they threw themselves upon him and, striking, kicking, fighting furiously, Cameron went down under the struggling mass, his hand still gripping the throat it had seized. "Say!
"Hurrah over and ask old Sandy for a drink," cried Charles Stuart. "I'm chokin'." Elizabeth followed them into the woods, full of delight. It would be such fun to visit Eppie in the afternoon, just as if they were grown-up ladies, and she had come to stay to tea. There was a strange, deserted air about the little place.
You've heard the evidence of the boy. You know, an' I know, he has spoke the truth this day, an' there ain't no evidence to the contrary. The boy did not entice the dog. He even went down the road, leavin' him behind. He run back only when the dog was in dire need an' chokin' to death. He wasn't called on to put that block an' chain back on the dog. He couldn't help it if the dog followed him.
"Only a minute, father; I couldn't help it," replied Polly, with a little laugh, as she ran to the fireplace and took up a saucepan that simmered there. "Here, look alive! shove along! hand it up! I'm chokin'!" The child held the saucepan as high as she could towards the hammock. The captain, reaching down one of his great arms, caught it and took a steaming draught.
I grabbed him by the collar and wallowed ashore. "'Awk! hawk! he gasps, chokin', 'I'm drownded. "I let him BE drownded, for the minute. I had the launch to think of, and somehow or 'nother I got hold of her rodin' and hauled the anchor up above tide mark. Then I attended to my passenger. "'Where are we? he asks. "I looked around. Close by was nothin' but beach-grass and seaweed and sand.
The fresh-water fisherman muttered, "I should like to save the man and to see the money, but it ain't a thaousan' dollars, nor ten thaousan' dollars, that'll pay a fellah for burnin' to death, or even chokin' to death, anyhaow." The carpenter, who knew the framework of every house in the village, recent or old, shook his head.
"Hold this," ordered Jones, giving the tight rope to Frank. Whereupon he grabbed my lasso from the saddle, roped Baldy's two forefeet, and pulled him down on his side. This lasso he fastened to a scrub cedar. "He's chokin'!" said Frank. "Likely he is," replied Jones shortly. "It'll do him good."
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