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"It isn't; it's not, a bit." "Laws, yes! It's oh heaps different!" She nodded her lovely head in firm conviction. "It's heaps different and I'm goin' to know more about such things as clo'es. I ain't plumb poverty poor, like lots o' folks, here in th' mountings. I got land down in th' valley I get rent from fifty dollars, every year! I'm goin' to find out about such things."
It's of no use lookin' put out, ma'am; for it's better to escape without yer clo'es than to be burnt alive in 'em. Then be careful to shut all doors after ye as ye go. This keeps the air from gittin' at the fire, and so smothers it down till the ingines come up. Also keep all windows shut.
I knew he would get good pay fer my support, fer I did de shoemakin' fer his people, and made a good many clo'es fer dem too. Thanks to Miss Hester's care, I had learned to use my needle, as you know, an' could do common tailorin' as well as shoemakin'. I got very little fer my wuk but Confederate money and provisions, which my mother always insisted that Mr.
"That's it, sarjint; that's just where it lies," returned Flynn, in a slow, weak voice. "I've bin occupied wi' that question too namely, how thin may a man git widout losin' the power to howld up his clo'es?" "You needn't be uneasy on that score," said Hardy, casting an amused glance at his companion, "for there's plenty o' flesh left yet to keep ye goin' till you get to old Ireland.
Next best to seeing the cirkis is hearing what that man said about the little black babies in Africa, that's where the cirkis animals come from, too, and I couldn't help wondering how I'd feel s'posing I had to live there and be black and eat such horrible things and be boiled in a kettle to take the dirt off, and buy my wife for a junk of cloth and wear strings of beads for clo'es.
Dat's my opinion, anyways. But nemmine 'bout dat. When I seed dat man I 'uz dat sk'yerd dat I could sca'cely wobble home. Den I give a nigger man a dollar for dese clo'es, en I ain't be'in in a house sence, night ner day, till now.
And I'll get some new clo'es, and then they'll let me come and see him." Pep rattled on as if the idea of sudden wealth had turned his head. "I'll go and tell your uncle," said Richard at length. "I know it will be a big surprise to him." "Kin you find the way from here and back?" asked Pep anxiously. "I don't know," replied Richard doubtfully. "I wish you could come along."
"'Well, said the Captain, 'go on." "Well, sir, all on a suddent like, it come over us: what good is that there plunder a-doin' of? "'What good? asked Black Pedro. "'Yessir, what good? There's all that there gold an' silver, an' all them jooels an' preshis stones an' all them fine clo'es an' what not, an' what good is it all a-doin' of, a-buried in the ground?
I didn't dast to look at her fer a spell; an' putty soon in come a hull crowd more girls that had left their clo'es in their trunks or somewhere, singin', an' dancin', an' weavin' 'round on the stage, an' after a few minutes I turned an' looked at Polly. He, he, he, he!" "David Harum!" cried Mrs.
It ain't so bad as it would be if ye couldn't strip it off when ye git tired on't, an' it's a good thing to know." "Do clothes make Belcher a gentleman?" inquired Mr. Benedict. "Well, it's what makes him a Mister, any way. When ye git his clo'es off thar ain't nothin' left of 'im.
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