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He wanted me to sign up with him, promisin' me that we'd have change of bill twice a week; but I finally prevailed upon him that I had aged considerable since our didoes with the goat, an' all of a sudden he ups an' sez, "By the way, old hat, I've got you news!" "Yes?" sez I. "Where'd you get it?" "Why, about the Creole Belle," sez he. "Creole Belle!" sez I. "Well, tell it, tell it.
Sho, sho! who'd a tink it, and his own son a 'Federate! Well, well, Mas'r Anderson isn't low-down white trash. If he thought a ting was right I reckon de hull worl' couldn't make him cut up any white- trash didoes." When Rita explained further the old negro replied with alacrity: "Ob cose Jehu will took you home safe, an' proud he'll be ter go wid you, honey.
With a sardonic grin Sut replied: "That's played out, old Pockared" alluding to the chieftain's pitted face. "I'm just as mad at yer as I kin be, without yer getting up any fancy didoes to upset my nerves. I've come for yer this time, and the best thing yer kin do is to proceed to business."
In other words, that Devers was already beginning, as the general expressed it, "to cut up didoes," and somebody some field officer would be at once detached, in all probability, and sent from his proper post temporarily to take charge of matters at Scott.
We can handle the others. We can't take any chances with Miss Locke aboard." "You're right!" said Jarrow. "I'll douse the glim and let 'em stay. If they want to cut up any didoes we can work the Nuestra back to Manila ourselves and the government'll take care of 'em for us."
"What's this hyer garment?" asked the brick-red customer of the clerk, holding up the waistcoat that went with the suit. "That's a vest," explained the salesman. "You wear it under the coat." "You don't say!" The vaquero examined the article curiously and disdainfully. "I've heard tell of these didoes, but I never did see one before. Well, I'll take this suit. Wrap it up.
A spectacle well calculated to impress upon their infant minds the awful consequences of straying from the paths of virtue. At this crisis Mrs. Wilkins providentially appeared, breathless, but brisk and beaming, and in no wise dismayed by the plight of her luckless son, for a ten years' acquaintance with Wash's dauntless nature had inured his mother to "didoes" that would have appalled most women.
'Course, all kinked up that way, he warn't fitten for a deligate, and Colonel Bud Crittenden had to ship him home. "I heard tell afterwards that going back on the steam cars the conductor told Breck he didn't care if he was a contortionist, he couldn't practise none of his didoes on that there train. "So there we was, each side shy one vote and still tied 52 and 52.
"Without showing it too mighty plainly, one or the other of us can always be ready and prepared to dump the laddy-buck, in case he tries to come any of his didoes. And, at the same time, we can be hugging up to him just as sweetly as though we knew he was on the dead level. Understand?"
She came so quietly that I did not hear her until she was almost beside me and spoke to me. It was the second time that had happened. "Mrs. Harman," I said, as she took the chair vacated by the elfin young lady, "you see I can manage it! But perhaps I control myself better when there's no camp-stool to inspire me. You remember my woodland didoes I fear?"
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