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He was squatting on his heels over the fire which he had built up to a great blaze and glow and he spoke in a queer sing-song tone through his teeth. "He asked after you real kind. He wanted to know how you was gettin' on with the edication he's ben handin' out to you. I tell him that you was right satisfied with me an' my ways an' hed quit his books.
He had seen them crowding folks off the sidewalk, and puffing smoke in their faces. All of which was nothing new; I had found that story more or less common among negroes of his age. He didn't believe much in "edication;" but when I asked if he thought the blacks were better off in slavery times, he answered quickly, "I'd rather be a free man, I had."
If we was going off to a wreck now, with or without a lifeboat, I would claim a sort o' right to be coxswain in virtue o' past experience; but, as we've now begun a sort o' shore-goin' business, which requires a deal o' general knowledge, besides seamanship, an' as Dr Hayward has got that by edication, I move that we make him our leader." "Right you are, Bob," said Joe Slag.
Walking up and down near the edge of the wood were Messrs. Clyde and Raybold. Phil smiled. "They don't seem to be happy," he said to himself. "I guess they're hankerin' to take a share in her edication; but if you don't know nothin' yourself, you can't edicate other people." Matlack directed his steps towards Mrs.
"'Tween you and me, what made you think he was?" said daddy, whose panic began to subside. "O, I saw his name, and took it for granted he was there. I did not quite make out what was said." "The billet was writ in a hurry, Mr. Sherman; you must excuse it. The honey is the most distinctest writer I knows on. She got a wonderful edication down thar, in New York; 'tween
An' now, he sez, 'carry 'im in de house. An' he walks arfter me an' opens de do's fur me, an' I kyars 'im in my arms, an' lays 'im down on de bed. An' from dat time I was tooken in de house to be Marse Channin's body-servant. "Well, you nuver see a chile grow so. Pres'n'y he growed up right big, an' ole marster sez he must have some edication.
Newcome, by your bringing something in," answered I, with dignity enough to put a man of ordinary delicacy on his guard. "Bringing suthin' in is good English, I hope, Mr. Littlepage. I mean that your edication has cost your folks enough to warrant them in calling on you for a little interest.
Mrs Jonathan isn't so bad as all that. I wish to goodness Jonathan hadn't married a fine lady. But then she brought him a good fortune, and it's all the better for our children. 'I don't want her money. 'But if it wasn't for her, my dear, Rowland would never have had an Oxford edication.
"No, sir; she's a niece the daughter of a brother o' mine who hes feathered his nest petter than me. He's a well-to-do grocer in Oban, an' hes geen his bairn a pretty good edication; but it's my opeenion they hev all but killed her wi' their edication, for the doctor has telt them to stop it altogither, an' send her here for a change o' air." "Indeed!
Mrs Potter concluded by emphatically stabbing a potato with her fork, and beginning to peel it. John smiled sadly and shook his head, but he was too wise a man to oppose his wife on such a point. "However, Tommy," he continued, "I'll not let you have the same regrets in after life, my son: God helping me, you shall have a good; edication.
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