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"A friend and a tent, a jug of whisky and a lot of jolly good tobacco." "How much are you willing to pay?" "Oh, I don't know. I'm always willing to do what's right. How would five dollars strike you?" The farmer scowled and shook his head. "Too much," he said, as Yates was about to offer more. "'Taint worth it. Two and a half would be about the right figure. Don'no but that's too much.
He looked so kind of funny when he went out. I don'no, he looked so kind of " "He looked like the bum he is, that's what. No respect for nothing. For his pa, or ma, or nothing. Down on the corner with the rest of 'em, that's where he's goin'. Hatton ain't goin' to let this go by. You see." But she, on her way to the kitchen, repeated, "I don'no, he looked so kind of funny. He looked so kind of "
I was cutting bread at the pantry window when she drove up and I couldn't help seeing her." "Oh, when my sister was up in New York this spring she said she saw several old gray-haired women with bobbed hair. She said it was something terrible to see how the world had run to foolishness." "Well, I don'no as it's wicked to bob your hair," said Mrs. Jones.
It's a mighty thing, chil'en, you don'no nothing about it, it's wonderful." And the old creature sat down, with streaming tears, as wholly overcome, while the whole circle struck up "O Canaan, bright Canaan I'm bound for the land of Canaan." Mas'r George, by request, read the last chapters of Revelation, often interrupted by such exclamations as "The sakes now!" "Only hear that!"
"The ice is running awfully, Tom; an't it dangerous?" "Don'no nothing 'bout that, only it's got to be done," said Tom, decidedly. "Dear me," said Marks, fidgeting, "it'll be I say," he said, walking to the window, "it's dark as a wolf's mouth, and, Tom " "The long and short is, you're scared, Marks; but I can't help that, you've got to go.
I don'no how much, 'case I can't read, an' dat's why I was late an' had to run so fass. You're good, you is, an' I muss 'fess may de Lawd forgive me." At this point Ted, who had been on some of the large boats between Jacksonville and Charleston, and had heard the cry warning the passengers to leave, screamed close to her.
"He will have a hard time of it, but I think he will pull through, as he is a temperate fellow, with a splendid constitution," was the doctor's verdict, as he left us for the next man, who was past help, with a bullet through his lungs. "I don'no as I hanker to live, and be a burden. If Jim was able to do for mother, I feel as if I wouldn't mind steppin' out now I'm so fur along.
"I wonder what vi-bratin' means," murmured Robin, turning his lustrous though damaged eyes meditatively on the landscape. "Don'no for sure," said Madge, "but I think it means tremblin'." It will be seen from the above conversation that Robert Wright and his precocious cousin Marjory were of a decidedly philosophical turn of mind.
Tomeo and Buttchee turned looks of inquiry on Ebony as if to say, "What d'ye say to that, you nigger?" But the nigger said nothing for some moments. He seemed not to have viewed the matter in that light. "Well, I don'no," he said at last with a deep sigh, "I t'ought I'd get hold ob suthin' when I kitch hold ob dat dream.
"I tell yer, Marse John," he resumed, after a thoughtful pause, "dey's one word o' ole marster's I don'no' huccome it slipped my min', but hit was a long glorified word, an' I often wishes hit'd come back ter me. Ef I could ricollec' dat word, hit'd holp me powerful in my preachin'. "Wonder ef you wouldn't call out a few dic'sh'nary words fur me, please, sir? Maybe you mought strike it."
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