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Updated: May 12, 2025
Of course we'd ought to've skulked away like a couple of egg-sucking curs, but we didn't, and I'm mightily glad of it, too. For Ixtli what a name that is to go to bed with every night, though! for Ixtli is just about as white as they make 'em, nowadays; you hear me blow my bazoo?"
"Give me the woods, with a fresh wind blowing, and the world looks good to me," then his voice and face fell, as he added, "excepting that snake-in-the-grass, Ged Raffer." "That man must make you a lot of trouble, Uncle Henry," said Nan sympathetically. "He does," growled the lumberman. "He's a miserable, fox-faced scoundrel, and I've no more use for him than I have for an egg-sucking dog.
His chief business was the doing away with dogs of ill-repute in the country; vicious dogs, sheep-killing dogs, egg-sucking dogs, were committed to Alan's dread custody, and often he would be seen leading off his wretched victims to his den in the woods, whence they never returned. It was a current report that he ate them, too. No wonder the boys regarded him with horror mingled with fearful awe.
At length, all being ready for the start, Ung Jerry climbed slowly to his perch on the cart's edge, gave a jerk to the rope bridle, and Rachel moved off, closely followed by Drive, who, conscious of egg-sucking and fearful of its consequences, had prudently ensconced himself beneath the cart, from whence he eyed, suspiciously, all passers-by.
But the "promised land" never took him into the direction of the stables, where the other pickaninnies worried the horses, or into the region of the hen-coops, where egg-sucking was a common crime.
"Run, you egg-sucking hound. "Run, you scald-headed dominie. "Somebody busted a cap in your neighborhood, old white-liver." "Seen the ghost of a dead rebel, Pilgarlic?" "Pull back your eyes, you infernal mulewhacker. A limb'll brush 'em off." "Look at his hair standin' up stiffer'n bristles on a boar's back." "Your mules got more sand 'n you. They're standing where you left 'em."
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