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"Ain't jest eggzac'ly used t' this kind uv a sickle," said D'ri, as he felt the edge of his sabre, "but I 'll be dummed ef it don't seem es ef I 'd orter be ruther dang'rous with thet air 'n my hand." He knew a little about rough fighting with a sabre. He had seen my father and me go at each other hammer and tongs there in our door-yard every day of good weather.
"Then they gin 'im a shove, 'n' I hearn 'im a-comin'. I flopped over 'n' le' go. Shot away luk a streak o' lightnin'. Dum thing grew steeper 'n' steeper. Jes' hel' up my ban's 'n' let 'er go lickitty split. Jerushy Jane Pepper! jes' luk comin' down a greased pole. Come near tekin' my breath away did sart'n. Went out o' thet air thing luk a bullet eggzac'ly. Shot int' the air feet foremust.
'Wall, I swan! said Uncle Eb. 'Jes' like a kitten's ear! 'Eggzac'ly! said David Brower. Elizabeth lifted the silk and let it flow to her feet Then for a little she looked down, draping it to her skirt and moving her foot to make the silk rustle. For the moment she was young again. 'David, she said, still looking at the glory of glossy black that covered her plain dress.
Joe broke it after a moment of deep thought. "Like t' know how he seen me," said he. "'Tis cur'us," said another. "Guess he's one o' them preformers like they have at the circus " was the opinion of Sam Beach. "See one take a pig out o' his hat las' summer." "'Tain't fair 'n' square," said Tom Linley; "not jest eggzac'ly." "Gosh! B'lieve I'll run away," said Joe, after a pause.
It's the gloomiest ol' house in all creation, I guess. Wal, that's the Squire Fullerton place he's Kate's father." "Does the squire live there?" "No, sir not eggzac'ly. He's dyin' there been dyin' there fer two year er more. By gosh! It's wonderful how hard 'tis fer some folks to quit breathin'. Say, be you any o' his fam'ly?" "No." "Nor no friend o' his?" "No!" "Course not.
'Come nigh haulin' me in tew. ''Tain't possible, said Uncle Eb. Mose expectorated, his hands upon his hips, looking down at the water. 'Wouldn't eggzac'ly say 'twas possible, he drawled, 'but 'twas a fact. 'Yer mistaken, said Uncle Eb. 'No I hain't, was the answer, 'I tell ye I see it. 'Then if ye see it the nex' thing ye orter see 's a doctor. There's sumthin' wrong with you sumwheres.
So't when we hitch 'er t' the pole bime bye we shan't be 'shamed o' her. 'Eggzac'ly, said David Brower, laughing. 'An' then she shall have the best harness in the market. Hope did not seem to comprehend all the rustic metaphors that had been applied to her. A look of puzzled amusement came over her face, and then she ran away into the garden, her hair streaming from under her white sun-bonnet.
"I declare," says another man, after 'twas all over, "I thought you was a Christian." "Am up to a cert in p'int," says he. "Can't go tew fur not 'n these parts men are tew powerful. 'Twon't do 'less ye wan'if die sudden. When he begun poundin' uv me I see I wan't eggzac'ly prepared." ''Fraid 's a good deal thet way with most uv us. We're Christians up to a cert'in p'int.
Say one's his strength, one's his plan, the rest is them he loves, an' the more he loves the better 'tis fer him. Wall, they begin t' go one by one. Some die, some turn agin' him. Fin's it hard t' keep his allowance. When he's only nine he's lost eggzac'ly one-tenth uv his dread o' dyin'. Bime bye he counts up one-two-three-four-five-an' thet's all ther is left. He figgers it up careful.
Do you remember my boss tellin' that night in the woods how he lost his money in the fire o' '35?" "Yes." "Wal, I guess it had suthin' t' do with that. One day the boss an' me was out in the door-yard, an' a stranger come along. 'You're John Thompson, says he to the boss; 'An' you're so an' so, says the boss. I don't eggzac'ly remember the name he give." Tilly stopped to think.
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