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"Son," said the father as they rode, "I reckon you've often wondered why, owning ow hund'ed thousand an' sixty acres, we should appeah so sawt o' reduced; haven't you?" "Sir?" The father repeated the question, and John said, dreamily: "No, sir." "Well, son, I'll tell you, though I'd rather you'd not mention it in school, faw instance if we can eveh raise money to send you to school.
She bent low, tittered softly, and then, with a swift return to her beautiful straightness, said: "But still, Miss Maud, who eveh know when dey say good night dat it ain't good-by?" She fondled my hand between her two as she backed away, kissed it fervently again, and was gone.
Then, afteh waitin' tell they saw thet the Injuns hed skulked up nearly to the door, they crawled through the gap in the floor, an' then frum undeh the house into the gairden, an' then to the cawnfiel', an' stole through it to the woods on t'otheh side. Then they run fur ther lives, expectin' ev'ry minit to be attacked. It wuz a meracle they eveh reached the fort alive. Pore Mrs.
There'll be a snowstorm before morning, Bo Peep," he said wearily as the young colored man assisted him into warm, dry clothes. "It's glorious to sit by a fire on a night like this. I didn't know how tired I was till now." "Yes, suh, I'se glad you all is home for the night, suh. I sho' is. I got mighty little use for this yuh country. I'se sorry now I eveh done taken my leave of ol' Virginny."
When he was gone the men looked at one another: "Yo' 'low he'll bring the revenuers?" one asked, nervously. "Bring nothin'!" another grinned. "No man eveh lived could drink fifteen big gulps, like he done, an' git furder'n a stuck hog, no, suh!" They listened for the promised whoops; they strained their ears for the cries of jubilation; but none came.
"Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, Ah ain't eveh raghtly comp'ehended, but Ah've reckoned that theah wah business an' Procalmashum an' so fothe was fo' common niggehs an' fiel' han's an' sech what b'long to th' place. But Ah was diffunt. Ah ain't b'longed to th' place. Ah b'longed to Miss Cahline lak Ah endeaveh to explain.
"There might be some in the bottom of the sea!" "I don't think so, Paul. Mr. Collier told me on the steamer that in the very deepest parts of the ocean there were no fish, only worms and sea-cucumbers and things like that." "If you'll listen a minute, sah," said the boatman, "yo'll heah somefin' wo'se than eveh come from de bottom ob de sea." "Worse?" "Worse!"
"Umph!" grunted Aunt Fanny, with exaggerated irony. "Well, they never do!" maintained Beverly, who was not at all sure about it. "And they look like real nice men honest men, even though they have such awful whiskers." "Dey's de wust trash Ah eveh did see," exploded Aunt Fanny. "Sh! Don't let them hear you," whispered Beverly. In spite of her terror and perplexity, she was compelled to smile.
Whilse eveh I'm alive, on wateh aw Ian', I's bound to be a ladies' man.
"No, sir, but I don't feel well enough to go home Father I I t-t-told I told an awful lie, one time, about you, and " "Why, son!" "Yes, sir. I've been tryin' for seven years to k own up, and " "Sev O Law, son, I don't believe you eveh done it at all. You neveh so much as told a fib in yo' life. You jest imagine you done it." "Yes, I have father, often.
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