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Updated: June 13, 2025
So he stood there looking in with the revolver ready cocked in his hand. "And what do you think I seen there?" he asked. "I cannot guess," I said. "Well," said Bill Hahn, "I seen the great Robert Winter that we had been fighting for five long months and he was down on his hands and knees on the carpet he had his little daughter on his back and he was creepin' about with her an' she was laughin'."
At first I thought the Natter-list one o' the cruellest beggars as iver went on two long legs, for he used to go about everywhere pokin' pins through all the beetles, and flies, an' creepin' things he could sot eyes on, an' stuck them in a box; but he told me he comed here a-purpose to git as many o' them as he could; so says I, `If that's it, I'll fill yer box in no time.
"It's creepin' upon my faculties," remarked Trinidad, "that borrowin' kids at Christmas is somethin' like tryin' to steal butter from a man that's got hot pancakes a-comin'." "It is undoubtedly an indisputable fact," said the Judge, "that the ah family ties seem to be more coherent and assertive at that period of the year."
I wadna be sair upon 'im but gien he be fit to caw a nail here an' a nail there, an fix a sklet or twa, creepin' upo' the riggin' o' the kirk, I'm weel sure he's nae wise maister-builder fit to lay ony fundation. Ay!
"No," returned the stranger doggedly, "it wasn't no MAN. There's ideas and words there that only come from a woman: baby-talk to the birds, you know, and a kind of fearsome keer of bugs and creepin' things that don't come to a man who wears boots and trousers. Well," he added, with a return to his previous air of resigned disappointment, "I suppose you don't even know what she's like?"
"An' I've nothin' to say against larch IF you want to make a temp'ry job of it. I ain't 'ere to tell you what isn't so, sir; an' you can't say I ever come creepin' up on you, or tryin' to lead you further in than you set out " A year ago George would have danced with impatience. Now he scraped a little mud off his old gaiters with his spud, and waited.
He wuz satisfied with makin' enough to live on. Live and let live was his motto. "And Mr. Regulus, the leader of the great Roman forces, wuz satisfied with his little farm of seven acres, creepin' up a little in amount from four to seven. But it wuzn't till long, long afterwards that the rich grew enormously rich and the poor poorer, and what a man had wuz honored instead of what he wuz.
They begun creepin' into the clearin' the minute it begun growin' dark. Reckon it's time they l'arned who's cooped up in here, so's they won't git too bold." He removed the bar of the door and through the crevice sounded his terrible war-cry, the scream of a panther. It stabbed the dusk with ear-splitting intensity. "There!
At ony rate, seein' yer lordship pat me in a mainner in chairge, I bude to haud her oot o' a closed room an' her gaein' creepin' aboot yer lordship's hoose like a worm." "Quite right. Will you pull the bell there for me?" He told the man to send Mrs Courthope; but he said she had not yet come home from church. "Could you take me to the room, MacPhail?" asked his lordship.
I had my gun ready to give him a mouthful of lead, as soon as he should show his snout outside o' the hole. "'Twar no go. I guess he had heard me when I first come up, and know'd I war thar. I laid still until 'twar so dark I thought I would never find my way back agin to the crik; but, after a good deal of scramblin' and creepin' I got out at last, and took my way home.
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