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But dis claim dat I haf and my tunnel on the hill on dem the vork is done. And now, Mr. Russell, if you haf finished looking here, I will take you to see my mine." "Well, I don't know," began Denver still gazing at the silver ore, "this looks pretty good, right here." "But the prophecy!" exclaimed the Professor with a knowing smirk, "don't it tell you to choose between the two?
She was al'ays runnin' off to town; an' you know a man don' want a ooman on wheels. Ef de Lawd had intended a ooman to have wheels, he 'd 'a' gi'n 'em to her, would n' he?" "Well, I suppose he would," assented Mrs. Meriwether. "And this one is Sarah? Well, how is ?" "Yes, 'm; dis one was Sairey." We just caught the past tense.
'Ta'n't dat house; 'ta'n't dis yer house Massa lib in; Massa's sparrer-house. Reckoned I'd better come and 'form him." "Is that all?" asked his master, who was accustomed to Capua's method of breaking ill news. "Now, Mass' Roger, don't you go to being pervoked an' flyin' into one ob dese yer tempers! It's all distinguished now.
What she got to do wid dis subjec-matter in han', I like a-know?" queried Aunt Chloe, swaying up to the mantle, filling her pipe with tobacco, and adding thereto the smallest glowing coal upon the hearth.
Every now and then a sigh escaped him, which he tried to conceal by some irrelevant remark, as if his sorrow were his own and not to be shared with a stranger. Finally he gave an uneasy glance around, and, looking into my face with an expression of positive pain, said: "Don't tell de colonel I axed, but when is dis yer railroad gwineter fotch some money in?"
What Caesar says of the practice of the Gauls of beginning the year with the night rather than with the day, and their ancient belief that they were sprung from Dis, the god of the lower world, is thus typified in their religious history. In dealing with the deities of the Celtic world we must not, however, forget the goddesses, though their history presents several problems of great difficulty.
"What!" exclaimed Sohlberg. "You threaten me? You try to frighten me after your wife charges that you have been running around weeth my wife? You talk about my past! I like that. Haw! We shall see about dis! What is it you knaw about me?" "Well, Mr.
"It looks perzactly like a mask," announced Jimmy after a thorough inspection, "and yet it don't." He tried it on. "It don't seem to fit your face right," he said. Sarah Jane was bearing down upon them. "Come back home dis minute, Jimmy!" she shrieked, "want to ketch some mo' contagwous 'seases, don't yuh? What dat y' all got now?"
Yet external Nature does its share in their training; witness that most poetic of all their songs, which always reminds me of the "Lyke-Wake Dirge" in the "Scottish Border Minstrelsy," "I know moon-rise, I know star-rise; Lay dis body down. I walk in de moonlight, I walk in de starlight, To lay dis body down. I'll walk in de graveyard, I'll walk through de graveyard, To lay dis body down.
I had made this reconnoissance while my companion was engaged in fastening his pirogue to the tree. I had finished my survey as he entered. "Now, mass'," said he, "dis am ole Gabe's nest; de dam man-hunter no found 'im yeer." "Why, you are quite at home here, Gabriel! How did you ever find such a place?" "Lor', mass', knowd it long time.
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