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Updated: June 14, 2025
Uncle Eb told her something about my father and mother being dead and our going west Then she hugged and kissed me and made me very miserable, I remember, wetting my face with her tears, that were quite beyond my comprehension. 'Jethro, said she, as the men came into the yard, 'I want ye t' look at this boy. Did ye ever see such a cunnin' little critter?
Moreover, he had speedily discovered that Joy laughed at everything he said; even his most ordinary efforts in the line of wit; and that she gave him lumps of sugar when she thought of it; and therefore he had been on his best behavior whenever she was about. "He's so terribly cunning," repeated Joy; "I guess he won't do any hurt." "I won't do any hurt," put in Winnie; "I'm real cunnin', Gypsy."
One on 'em'd sit down in front of that there, and howl all day and all night before he'd make up his mind to scratch at the brush." "How'd he guess at a trap?" "Oh, they're laid on kind o' reg'lar, and he'd smell the b'ar too, and he'd know it was somethin' more than ordinary. There's jest one thing they ain't cunnin' enough for, and that's a rifle-bullet.
"Why, the divil resave the squig of punch, whiskey, or liquor of any sort or size he'll allow to pass the lips of him. Now, Connor, aren't you up to the cunnin' villainy of the thraitor in that maynewvre?" "I am, Nogher; I see his design in it. He is afeard if he got drunk that he wouldn't be able to keep his own secret." "Ah, then, by the holy Nelly, we'll sleep him yet, or he'll look sharp.
'My boy said he left him in the paddock, an' I s'pose he can't be fur, but I tell you you won't get him, he's that cunnin'. He's fuller o' wickedness an' wisdom, an' good an' bad, than any boy you ever see, sergeant. 'Ah, well, we'll move on and try the other spot; but I would like to have the dear boy for five minutes now, while I feel in the humour to knock some of the bad out of him.
"Dis a new way de buckra man got to fight," he said. "He fire big ball arter you, and den de big ball fire little ones arter you. Dat’s berry cunnin’, but ole Cudjoe know somethin’ better un dat."
"Sich a plan didn't set well with the white settlers that was tryin' to put down cattle thefts. Old Matt got a bad reputation en he didn't try to correct hit. He matched Injun cunnin' agin the 'white laws' en got ostracized. He raised his boys by the same standards. This Hulls is jist dumb en ornery but Archie was smart.
"Faddo got on to his feet. He was bigger built than Lancy, and a bit taller, and we all knew he was devilish strong in his arms. There was a look in his face I couldn't understand. One minute I thought it was fear, and another I thought it was daze; and maybe it was both. But all on a sudden something horrible cunnin' come into it, and ugly too.
Lately he was gaining some reputation as a political boss. "Hit do beat all," Barnaby repeated, shaking his heavy head reflectively, and making a grimace both comical and hideous. "Dat young man desput sma't and cunnin', sho's yo' bo'n he is. He done been foolin' wid dem niggahs a'ready."
But it's surprised that I am to hear about this. Ah, then, Master Will, but ye're a sly dog more cunnin' than I took ye for. Ye threw dust in the eyes of Larry O'Hale, anyhow."
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