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Updated: May 23, 2025
"You were about the grounds as usual Wednesday, were you not?" "I was 'bout de grounds all day, sah, 'case dere was a pow'ful lot to do a-gittin' ready for de big doins dere was goin' to be on mars'r's birfday." "Did you see either of the strangers who called that day?" "I'se a-comm' to dat d'rectly, sah.
I never washed the dishes so quickly; milkpans were despatched speedily to the buttery shelves, and at last Aunt Hildy, who was kneading bread, stopped, and looking at me, said: "What on airth are you going to do? you work as if you was a gettin' reddy to go to a weddin', or somethin' Is there doins on hand among the folks?"
Do look sharp and get the fire up. Sich doins' as this I never did see nor hear of since I left the frontier. I do declare it's worthy o' the Wild Man o' the West himself. What d'ye find to laugh at, Dick? I'm sure if ye had my miserable bones in yer body at this moment, ye'd laugh wi' your mouth screwed the wrong way. Look alive, man!" "Patience, lad, patience.
If he's been raised mostly on corn bread, an' common doins, an' don't know much about good things to eat, he'll most likely cut his biscuit open with a case knife, an' make it fall as flat as one o' yesterday's pancakes.
''Tain't the usual doins to let 'em away dry, suggested he, with a meaning smile. ''Spose you stand treat now; 'twill fix the business handsome.
The person addressed as "Polly," gave her shoulders an angry jerk, and sticking the pin on the waist of her dress, replied, "So I s'pose it's no matter if I'm kept awake all night, and worried to death. But I guess you'd find there'd be queer doins here if I should be taken away. I wish the British would stay to hum, and not lug their young ones here for us to take care of."
If he's been raised mostly on corn bread, an' common doins, an' don't know much about good things to eat, he'll most likely cut his biscuit open with a case knife, an' make it fall as flat as one o' yesterday's pancakes.
There is a woman lives in the Waterfall Cottage your husband goes to see often. Such doins ought not to be Aloud. "From your sinceer Well-Wisher, XXX." If it had been a longer letter she would not have read it. It was so short and written so legibly that the whole disgraceful thing leaped at her in a single glance.
Sez he, "Bust my gizzud but it's grate doins," & then he larfed as if he'd kill hisself. Sez I, risin and puttin on a austeer look, "William, I woodunt be a fool if I had common cents." But he kept on larfin till he was black in the face, when he fell over on to the bunk where the hostler sleeps, and in a still small voice sed, "Twins!"
"The sorra blame I blame him, Owen," replied Rosha, "his bread's depindin' upon the likes of sich doins, an' he can't get over it; but a word from you, Owen, will save me, for who ever refused to take the word of a M'Carthy?" When Owen and the widow arrived at the house of the latter, they found the situation of the bailiff laughable in the extreme.
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