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Now yer better turn me er loose, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; I got er nuther han' lef', and 'ker bum' he come wid his udder han', on de tar baby's tuther jaw, an' dat han' stuck. "'Look er hyear! who yer foolin' wid? sez Brer Rabbit; 'I got er foot yit. Den he kick wid all his might, an' his foot stuck. Den he kick wid his udder foot, an' dat stuck.
No more nor that old deaf gammon there that costs me three tizzies a week, and haint worth a h'porth no more nor Meg there, that's making all she can o' them pains. They be all a foolin' o' me, an' thinks I don't know't. Hey? we'll see. All this time he was cutting a bit of tobacco into shreds on the window-stone.
"Well, sir, I talked an hour at the Señorita Anabela. I say 'at' because it was not 'with. Now and then she would say: 'Oh, Señor, or 'Now, ain't you foolin'? or 'I know you don't mean that, and such things as women will when they are being rightly courted. Both of us knew English and Spanish; so in two languages I tried to win the heart of the lady for my friend Fergus.
But they saw the fallen editor pick himself up, with a face of stupefied wonder, and immediately start back toward the angry proof-reader. Mr. Pat lowered redly on his threshhold. "G'awn now! Get away!" Queed came to a halt a pace away and stood looking at him. "G'awn, I tell ye! I don't want no more of your foolin'!"
Kind o' roped safe to the desk in the meetin'-house, so the boys can't git foolin' wi' it. Yup," he went on, with an abstracted look in his expressive eyes, "religion's a mighty powerful thing when it gits around. Most like the fever. I kind o' got touched wi' it down Texas way on the Mexican border. Guess et wer' t' do wi' a lady I favored at the time; but that ain't here nor there.
The boy, who was sitting in an old goat wagon, pulled on the reins and guided his animal over toward the curb. "Does you really want a ride?" he asked, "No foolin'?" "No foolin'," answered Freddie. "Sure we want a ride. I've got five cents." He showed only half of the money he had in his pocket, keeping the other nickel back.
"No!" he cried, "you ain't a-goin' t' get no wedding, Hermy; he don't mean t' give ye a square deal. He's foolin' ye foolin' ye, girl! Oh," said he through shut teeth, "ye thought I was safe out o' the way, I guess. You ought t' known better; th' p'lice couldn't hold me, they never will. Anyway, I've kept tabs on ye I know as you've been meeting him in a wood!
"More good citizens comin' to be in at the finish of this man hunt. They ought to build a grand stand an' invite the whole town," he said sardonically. A water-gutted arroyo broke the line of liver-bank. Jim, who was limping heavily, stopped and examined it. "Let's stay here, Billie, an' fight it out. No use foolin' ourselves. We're trapped. Might as well call for a showdown here as anywhere."
They thought Holliday had blinded him; had closed both his eyes so that he could not see at all, did they? Well, he could! Oh, he was foolin' 'em. Champion! Once he'd looked that word up in a dictionary, just after he whipped Fanchette; looked it up a little sheepishly, though he was alone at the time. Champion: One who by beating all rivals has obtained an acknowledged supremacy.
"Hold on, now, Perez!" pleaded the discomfited sacrifice, alarmed at his comrade's threatened desertion. "I was only foolin'. Can't you take a joke? I haven't said I wouldn't do it. I think a heap of Mrs. Snow; it's only that I ain't got the spunk to ask her, that's all." "Humph! it don't take much spunk," replied the successful wooer, forgetful of his own past trepidation.
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