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I had a great-aunt once; had a slew of 'em, fur's that goes, 'cause my grandmother on the starboard side " "WHAT side?" "Eh! Oh, that's what pa used to call his side of the family, the starboard side. All ma's folks was port side, 'cordin' to his tell. He'd worked aboard vessels, pa had; that is, as much as he ever worked anywheres.
You'll have the station crew out after us, and they'll guy me till I can't rest. Shut up! If you don't, I'll I'll swim ashore and leave you. "I was takin' big chances, as I look at it now. He might have drawed a bowie knife or a lasso on me; 'cordin' to his yarns he'd butchered folks for a good sight less'n that. But he kept quiet this time, only gurglin' some when the ark tilted.
It would spoil the the well, I cannot explain; but they want to spring the pictures upon folks by and by." "'Cordin' t' what Andrew Farley tells," grinned Billy, all amiability now, "no one will be likely t' know ye from a scrub oak stump when the picters is done.
"Allowed the Lard o' Hosts graws a bit short in His temper now an' again, as with them gormed Israelites, an' sich like, an' small blame to Him; but He's all for mercy at heart, 'cordin' to the opinion of these times, so you'd best to dig." "Why doan't he strike me down if I've angered Him not this innocent cheel?" "The sins of the fathers be visited " began Mr. Blee glibly, when Mrs.
An' this air a painter's " affecting to scan it by the window "two ears 'cordin' to law; yes, sir, two; and this" his keen old face had all the white light of the sad gray day on its bleaching hair and its many lines, and his eager old hands trembled with the excitement of the significant satire he enacted "an' this air a wolf's, ye say? Yes; it's a Kittredge's; same thing, Mr.
Where'd he come from?" asked the girls. "I dunno," said Bill Moody; "he didn't say much. Talk seemed all froze up. Frenchy, 'cordin' to what he did say. Guess he must a come from Canady, workin' on a lumber job up Raquette River way. Got bounced out o' the camp, p'raps. All them Frenchies is queer." This summary of national character appeared to command general assent.
Now, when you do come, you want money, you said that, too." "Well, what of it?" "Nothin' of it, 'special. Only when a party comes to me and commences by sayin' he or she's a relation I know what's comin' next. Relations! Humph! My relations never done much for me." Thankful's fingers twitched. "'Cordin' to all accounts you never done much for them, either," she declared.
Bill Striker is his name, I believe. Do yer know him? "I couldn't help starting when I found that I was known to this noted rebel; but the woman didn't notice it, and I replied: "Oh, yes! I've heard of him. "'Cordin' to all accounts, continued the woman, 'this Yankee an't much behind Bob, for he has often been in our camp, an' he don't allers go back empty-handed.
I hear Miss Sally callin'. You better run 'long." "ONE night," said Uncle Remus taking Miss Sally's little boy on his knee, and stroking the child's hair thoughtfully and caressingly "one night Brer Possum call by fer Brer Coon, 'cordin' ter 'greement, en atter gobblin' up a dish er fried greens en smokin' a seegyar, dey rambled fort' fer ter see how de ballance er de settlement wuz gittin' long.
He did not want to wrong this man he had grown to like, but a sense of duty lashed him on. "The Lord knows, Mr. Thornly," he faltered, "I don't want t' make any mistakes. It's turrible confusin' when you try t' label folks. The same acts mean different 'cordin' t' the handlin', an' a good man an' a bad man bear a powerful likeness t' each other on the outside, sometimes.
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