Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
You must jes' trust yer mammy, an' by an' by you'll see I'm right. I can't spar' you frum home this wintah, but you kin study o' nights, an' Abner'll holp you with yer books. So cheer up, lak a good gal; an' nex' time the packman comes 'long an' I'm lookin' fer him 'most any day I'll buy you some ribbon fur yer hair an' a string uv beads.
I lukt and what m' eyes lukt upon froze me blood like icicles hingin' frum th' thatch. It was a woman in a white shift, young an' beautiful, wid hair stramin' down her back. She sat on th' wall wid her head in her han's keenin' an' moanin': 'Ochone, ochone! I thried to spake but m' tongue cluv t' th' roof ov m' mouth. I thried t' move a han' but it wudn't budge.
It is more interesting than a romance. But tell me, how did you acquire so many negroes? You surely didn't bring them with you?" "Lawd, no! Why, we wuz pore ez Job's turkey, an' hardly owned a shut to our backs, let 'lone niggahs. Aftah the country wuz more cl'ared up, folks moved in frum Virginny an' even Pennsylvany, an' brought slaves with 'em.
But they ain't agoin' tuh git any o' them turks if I have to sot up all night, and borry a gun frum you fellers in the bargain." "What's the matter with tying Moses the bulldog to the tree here?" remarked Elmer; "he's barking now at the kennel near the house. I'd certainly make use of the old dog if I were you, Johnny." "Jest what I will do, Elmer.
These walks were full of questionings. Big vital questions of life and death and immorality. They were quaintly put: "There's a lot of balderdash about another world, bhoy. On yer oath now, d'ye think there is wan?" "I do." "If there is wud He keep me frum Anna jist because I've been kinda rough?" "I am sure He wouldn't!" "He wudn't be s' d d niggardly, wud He?" "Never!
So we children made fun of him and we had to hold our mouths shut when he got up all tired and teary-like, and began to quaver: "Many dear childurn we know dew stan' Un toon ther harps in the better lan', Ther little hans frum each soundin' string, Bring music sweet, wile the Anguls sing, Bring music sweet, wile the Anguls sing,
"But they is jest boys growed up, an' if eny one o' them should really take a notion ter raise hell, all the cussin' I might do wouldn't make no diffrance. Whatever yer aim at, better be done right off, while I kin sorter keep 'em busy down yere; onct they git loose on the deck the devil himself couldn't stop 'em frum startin' a row."
The doctor stopped in midflight and swung about and his eye fell upon the right-hand door and he moved a yard or two in that direction; but no more than a yard or two, for again Jeff spoke in warning, halting him short: "Not dat way neither! The one frum dat other town whar you uster live is waitin' outside dat do' wid a pistil! Seems lak you's entirely s'rounded by wives dis evenin'!"
"Giles," said Judge Priest in an undertone, when the worthy sheriff had drawn near, "the circuit clerk tells me there's an indictment fur malicious mischief ag'in this here Perce Dwyer knockin' round amongst the records somewheres an indictment the grand jury returned several sessions back, but which was never pressed, owin' to the sudden departure frum our midst of the person in question.
Come, Cap," he went on, addressing himself to Woodward, "Teague'll be a drappin' on us, thereckly, an' it twon't never do in the roun' worl' for to be a-makin' faces at 'im frum the groun'. Roust up, roust up." Woodward did rouse up.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking