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"You two aint furgot the stranger who popped up in Nashville all on a sudden like, about the time that Jack Gray came hum from Newbern, have you?" continued the old woman, after she had assured herself by a few long, audible puffs that her pipe was well lighted. "Lemme see if I have disremembered his name. No; sounds to me like it was Aleck Webster."
But the dog, perceiving the nature of the commodity, drew back with a look of deep reproach, rose precipitately, and with a drooping tail went out skulkingly into the wet gray day. "Towse can't abide a bullet," she observed, "nor nuthin' 'bout a gun. He got shot wunst a-huntin', an' he never furgot it. Jes show him a gun an' he ain't nowhar ter be seen like he war cotch up in the clouds."
"Yas'm, come off an' furgot twenty-fi' cents dat I wanted to fetch wid me. I owes er quarter ter er crap-shootin' nigger ober dar, an' when I kain't pay him he gwine retch his han' up atter my wool. I doan want no big nigger retchin' atter me, caze I ain't right well dis mawin'. Co'se ef I wuz well I wouldn' mine it so much, but ez it is, it bodders me might'ly.
An' I fund the coat a-hangin' thar on the peg, whar I hed lef' it, bein' ez I furgot it when I went off with Rufe ter look at his chickens, an' the pocket war empty an' the paper gone! Nate hev kem ter sarch, too!" Once more he held out his hand. "Gimme the grant. Nate 'lows 'twar you-uns ez tuk it, bein' ez I lef' it hyar." Birt flushed angrily. "I'll say a word ter Nate Griggs!" he declared.
"Justus, I know ye never furgot me fur one minute. I kin find no fault with yer likin' fur me." She had never seen a stage. She had never heard of a theatre, but she was posing and playing a part as definitely as if it graced the boards. He detected a certain spurious note in her voice. It bewildered him. He stared silently at her. "I can't marry you-uns. I never kin."
"Ye lef' no wood hyar, an' ye said ye would borry the mule, an' come home early a- purpose to haul some. An' me hyar with nuthin' to cook supper with but sech chips an' blocks an' bresh ez I could pick up off'n the groun'." Birt's troubles had crowded out the recollection of this domestic duty. "I clean furgot," he admitted, penitently.
Well, I beg yo' pardon, I thought you did." Kintchin, who sat in front, ducked his head and chuckled. "Oh, de folks up yere is de 'commerdatinist you eber seed. Da'll stand up fur you ur fall down fur you ur do anythin' you pleases. Sorry I come off an' furgot suthin'. Allus de way man furgits whut he needs de mos." "Did you forget something, Kintchin?" Mrs. Mayfield inquired.
"'Why don't you give the lady some room? I says to Peewee, 'n' he gets up 'n' leaves her have the trunk. "'You're a real polite young man, says Mrs. Boone to me. "We ain't more'n got started when the dame lets out a holler. "'Orphy! she yells, 'Stop! Wait a minute! Whoa! Orphy comes 'n' yanks off the trolley. "'I declare to goodness! says Mrs. Boone. 'I've furgot my rubbers.
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