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After the command moved out he might be picked up by a roving Yankee patrol, while Selma was still so far behind the Confederate lines that it was safe, especially with Forrest moving between it and Wilson. "Mind you, take things easy! Start coughin' again, and you'll have to stay behind!" Drew warned. "Drew, are things really so bad for us?" The scout came away from the window.
I'll be coughin' blood before eyght bells. 'Ow can it be myde up to me, I arsk? 'Oo's goin' to do it? Gawd? 'Ow Gawd must 'ave 'ated me w'en 'e signed me on for a voyage in this bloomin' world of 'is!" This tirade against destiny went on for an hour or more, and then he buckled to his work, limping and groaning, and in his eyes a great hatred for all created things.
"I'm goin' out now, but listen to what I say" he helt his breath to keep from coughin' "the' ain't no sin but stealin'. Don't never take nothin' that don't belong to ya." All his muscles grew rigid an' twisted, an' then a smile came on his face an' he sank back.
"Why, you axed me and you were makin' game of it at the time whether Teetotallism would put a shirt or a coat to your back a house over your head give you a bed to lie on, or blankets to keep you and the childre from shiverin', an' coughin', an' barkin' in the could of the night? Don't you remember sayin' this?" "I think I do; ay, I remember something about it now.
Recovering themselves, Penrod and Sam underwent the customary human reaction from alarm to indignation. "What you want, you ole horse, you?" Penrod shouted. "Don't you come coughin' around ME!" And Sam, seizing a stick, hurled it at the intruder. "Get out o' here!" he roared.
"Pieces of a coffin of one of the Acadians, exhumed at Grand Pré fourteen months ago, near the site of the old church," we are told; and when he continues: "A woman's bone was found in it", one unromantic and matter-of-fact member of the Octave asserts, "Evangeline's grandmother, of course"; while another skeptically remarks, "That's more than I can swallow; it would give me such a spell o' coughin' as I couldn't get over"; but the conductor and others staunchly avouch the genuineness of the article, affirming that they were present "when it wus dug up."
I don't know as I'm what you'd call any more believin', but when I've laid till after midnight with my eyes as wide open as daylight, and no shut to 'em, thinkin' and worryin' and coughin', I've seen it ag'in, jest the way he rolled and tossed that night, and then them words come to him, and he smiled and went to sleep peacefuller nor any child; and so I've said 'em, and faith or no faith, believin' or no believin', they've set me a cryin', time and ag'in, and they've put me to sleep! thar', they've put me to sleep!"
"Then I must eat it myself, I suppose, though it do seem a shame to waste such a lovely chop on Ann Angelina Trapes! But, Hermy dear, I just been down to see Mrs. Bowker, an' her little Hazel's very bad her poor little hip again, an' she's coughin' too, somethin' dreadful." "Poor little Hazel! Did she ask for me, Ann?" "Well, my dear, she did, an' Mrs.
Can't ye fancy ould Barber Brady wid a bullet in his lungs, coughin' like a sick monkey, an' sayin', 'Bhoys, I do not mind your gettin' dhrunk, but you must hould your liquor like men. The man that shot me is dhrunk. I'll suspend investigations for six hours, while I get this bullet cut out, and then "
"If they can do them other things they'd used to do when livin' walkin' an' seein' an' such-like why not coughin'?" Betts shook his head. "Never 'eered on it," he said, with conviction. "Well, anyways I seed him come down to that shed, an' then I lost 'im. But I 'ad the creeps somehow and I called to Jenny to come an' take the 'orses. An' then I went after 'im.
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