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Updated: June 7, 2025
Then he sat down with the frail form in his arms and looked earnestly at her with his deep piercing eyes. "Where's the ole hoss," began his wife, her eyes beginning to snap. "You've traded him off an' I'll bet you got soaked, Hillard Watts I can tell it by that pesky, sheepish look in yo' eyes. You never cu'd trade horses an' I've allers warned you not to trade the ole roan."
Nothing on board to eat; soft-shell crabs and the best bill of fare of a Southern kitchen ordered at home for seven o'clock; a couple of fiddlers coming from "the Swamp" at nine; and Cousin Susan, the cook, even then promising little Stump Neal "all de bonyclábá he cu'd stow ef he'd jest friz dis yar cream fo' de new missis."
"Tollerbul truthful," went on the Bishop, "on all subjects he wanted to tell the truth about. An' I'm proud to say, bretherin, that after fifty odd years of intermate acquantance with our soon-to-be-deceased brother, you cu'd rely on him tellin' the truth in all things except" "Tell it as it was, Hillard no filigree work at my fun'ral " said Uncle Dave.
"I looked the hoss over plum' surprised like. "'Why, Jud, I said as softly as I cu'd, for I was nigh to bustin', an' I had a lot of friends come to see the sho', an' they standin' 'round stickin' their old hats in their mouths to keep from explodin' 'Why, Jud, my dear friend, I said, 'ain't you kind o' mistaken about this?
He's got a little farm an' is well to do an' is thrifty, an' if I cu'd only git that class started in the mill an' contented to wuck there, it 'ud open up a new class of people. There's that Archie B. confound him, he cu'd run ten machines at onct and never know it. I'd like to sweat that bottled mischief out of him a year or two. "Hello!" Jud drew his horse up with a jerk.
Read the last line ag'in in them big letters: "'Open to anything raised in the Tennessee Valley. "Fine fun an' kinder sarcastic, but, Jack, Ben Butler cu'd make them blooded trotters look like steers led to slaughter." Jack sat looking silently in the fire. "If I had the entrance fee I'd do it once jes' once mo' befo' I die? Once mo' to feel the old thrill of victory!
This has cost me ten years of outlawry an' fo'teen bullets. Now I've got all this an' well a hole in the groun' an' little Jack in the hole. If you wanter preach a sermon on the folly of pilin' up money," he went on half ironically, "here is yo' tex'. All me an' little Jack needed or cu'd use, was a few clothes, some bac'n an' coffee an' flour.
"Come to think of it, an' that's about the way with the rest of us? "But he aimed to do right, an' he strove constantly to do right, an' he prayed constantly fur help to do right, an' that's the main thing. If he fell he riz agin, fur he had a Hand outstretched in his faith that cu'd lift him up, an' knew that he could go to a Father that always forgave an' that's the main thing.
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