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Updated: June 19, 2025
They give us all kinds of entertainment, free of charge. Three times a week we have some sort of a show, generally a band concert, a movin' picture show and a vaudeville show. Then, once a month they bring up some crackin' good show right out of a Broadway theater to make us forget that it's Sunday and we'll have to go to work the next morning.
Up the street we went, steer bawling and buck-jumping, my hair a-flying, and me as busy as the little bee you read about keeping that steer underneath me, 'stead of on top of me, where he'd ruther be, and after us the whole town, whoopin', yellin', crackin' off six-shooters, and carryin' on wild. "Then we had twenty-five dollars and was as good as anybody. But it didn't last long.
Ye never saw sic a hoosefu'! Sandy was sittin' at the fireside wi' an auld greatcoat an' a hairy bonnet on, an' a' the sax o' them fell to the crackin', ye never heard the like. Ye wudda really thocht it was a meetin' o' the Presbitree they were a' speaking that throwither. "An' what was the minister on the nicht, Gairner?"
Slick, who had noticed my abstraction. "No screw loose there, I hope. You don't look as if you liked the flavour of that ere nut you are crackin' of. Whose dead? and what is to pay now?"
He ain't half good 'nough for her. Too many quids goin' a flingin' on 'em about like buttons! He's been a crackin' o' cribs he has. I ain't a goin' to interduce our Mattie to no sich blokes as him. No fathers or lovyers for me says I! But this here pebble o' Paradise! What's to be done wi' the cherub?
"Ye've gotter 'low some for the breakin'-in. Sufferin' cracky! don't I recollect the first time I hit the trail! Stiff? I've seen the time it'd take me ten minutes to git my mouth from the water-hole an' come to my feet every jint crackin' an' kickin' fit to kill. Cramp? In sech knots it'd take the camp half a day to untangle me. You're all right, for a cub, any ye've the true sperrit.
"Sartainly," said Andy, who drew the lease from his pocket and handed it to her, and as he was near to her he attempted a little familiarity, which Matty repelled very unequivocally. "Arrah! is it jokes you are crackin'?" said Andy, with a grin, advancing to renew his fondling.
I had sumhow got perseshun of a hosswhip on my way home, and rememberin' sum cranky observations of Mrs. Ward's in the mornin', I snapt the whip putty lively, and in a very loud woice, I sed, "Betsy, you need reorganizin'! I have cum, Betsy," I continued crackin the whip over the bed "I have cum to reorganize you! Haave you per-ayed tonight?"
Cooking had risen in Pat's estimation. "She asked me, 'Will you please not be nickin' or crackin' the dishes, Pat? And says I, 'I'll be careful, Mrs. Brady. But I wonder what makes 'em have these thin sort of dishes. I never seen none like 'em nowhere else." Dinner was over and Pat was alone in the kitchen.
And he sez: "I have been thinkin' that it is a crackin' good idee to wear the shirt over the pantaloons; it would be cool and look all right after we got used to it; the bottom of the shirt could be ruffled or trimmed with tattin or red braid, and they would look as dressy agin as I've always wore 'em."
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