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"Dumm" as he was, Absalom, in his invulnerable persistency, had become to the tired, tortured girl simply an irresistible force of Nature. And Tillie felt that, struggle as she might against him, there would come a day when she could fight no longer, and so at last she must fall a victim to this incarnation of Dutch determination.
The Bible says in so many words, 'There's nothing new under the sun. There! You can't come over that there, can you? You don't consider into them things enough, Doc. You ain't a religious man, that 's the trouble!" "I got religion a plenty, but I don't hold to no SICH dumm thoughts!" "Did you get your religion at Bethel rewiwal?" Mrs.
"I got a son his last teacher couldn't learn 'rithmetic to. He's wonderful dumm in 'rithmetic, that there boy is. Absalom by name. After the grandfather. His teacher tried every way to learn him to count and figger good. He even took and spread toothpicks out yet but that didn't learn him neither. I just says, he ain't appointed to learn 'rithmetic.
We soon got this position, and then our troops, ascending some spurs, poured a destructive fire into the defile and so harassed the Turks re-forming for a counterattack as to render feeble their efforts to regain what they had lost. By eight o'clock we had taken the whole of the Talat ed Dumm position, and long-range sniping throughout the day did not disturb our secure possession of it.
Fanny's face hardened. She stood up. "Yes, she was different." "She comes often into my mind now, when I am here alone, with only the four walls. We were aber dumm, we women but how dumm! She was too smart for us, your mother. Too smart. Und eine sehr brave frau."
Well, a body can't ALWAYS get ahead of a set of stubborn-headed Dutchmen and with Nathaniel Puntz so wonderful thick in with your pop to work ag'in' you, because you won't have that dumm Absalom of hisn!" "What shall I do?" Tillie cried. "I can never, never go back to my old life again that hopeless, dreary drudgery on the farm! I can't, indeed I can't! I won't go back. What shall I do?"
The turnips dropped into the pan, and Tillie raised her eyes to gaze incredulously into the face of her stepmother, who, with hands on her hips, stood looking down upon her. "Yes," went on Mrs. Getz, "that's what they done! A dumm thing like that! And after pop and Nathaniel Puntz they had spoke their speeches where they had ready, how Teacher he wasn't fit fur William Penn!
The chief objective of the centre column was Talat ed Dumm which, lying on the Jericho road just before the junction of the old and the new road to the Jordan valley, was the key to Jericho. It is hard to imagine a better defensive position. To the north of the road is the wadi Farah, a great crack in the rocks which can only be crossed in a few places, and which a few riflemen could cover.
No enemy could delay our progress from that shell-torn spot. Lighter guns searched other positions and whiffs of shrapnel kept Turks from their business. There are green patches on the western side of Talat ed Dumm in the early months of the year before the sun has burned up the country. Over these the infantry advanced as laid down in the book.
The Turks had got an immensely strong position about Talat ed Dumm, the 'Mound of Blood, where stands a ruined castle of the Crusaders, the Chastel Rouge.
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