Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
At other times the Red-skins go huntin' in 'ticlar places, and sweeps them clean o' every hoof that don't git away. Sometimes, too, the animals seems to take a scunner at a place and keeps out o' the way. But one way or another men gin'rally manage to scramble through."
They come round me an' shuk me, an' I tould thim I was in privit employ wid an income av me own, an' a drrrawin'-room fit to bate the Quane's; an' wid me lies an' me shtories an' nonsinse gin'rally, I kept 'em quiet in wan way an' another, knockin' roun' the camp. 'Twas bad even thin whin I was the Angil av Peace.
I see th' programme in th' pa-aper: First day, 10 A.M., prayers be th' allied mission'ries; 1 P.M., massacree iv the impress an' rile fam'ly; sicond day, 10 A.M., scatthrin' iv remains iv former kings; 11 A.M., disecration iv graves gin'rally; 2 P.M., massacree iv all gin'rals an' coort officials; third day, 12 noon, burnin' iv Peking; foorth day, gran' pop'lar massacree an' division iv territ'ry, th' cillybration to close with a rough-an'-tumble fight among th' allies."
The impression was deepened when, after a short, dry laugh a propos of nothing, she sniffed again three times. "Well, you turned out to be right," said Mr. Boxer, shortly. "I gin'rally am," was the reply; "there's very few people can take me in." She sniffed again. "Were the natives kind to you?" inquired Mrs. Boxer, hastily, as she turned to her husband. "Very kind," said the latter.
Old man Alexander he was the fiddler used to sing out 'Choose partners for Hull's Vict'ry, or somethin' like that, and it always took 'Ras so long to make up his mind what girl to choose that he gin'rally got left altogether. Then he'd set on the settee all through the dance and say he never cared much for Hull's Vict'ry, anyway. Seems to me, I'm the only one that ain't choosed partners.
You ken begin it now. With that I reached for him, and we waltzed oncet or twicet around the room, and then I put him up on the mantelpiece and on them desks and little boxes, and took him down again, and kinder wiped the floor with him gin'rally, until the first thing I knowed he was outside the winder on the sidewalk. On'y blamed if I didn't forget to open the winder.
"When is he sober?" asked a bystander. "Sure an' his money gin'rally gives out by Friday mornin', and from that on to Saturday night, he can't git a dhrop. Faith, but he's koind and consid'rate at sich a time!" Did the loyal soul find that marriage paid? One great mistake that many silly women make is to think that a dash of wickedness makes a man more attractive.
'Wal, I reckon most of the folks 'bout har' is Union; they're from the "old North," and gin'rally pore trash. 'I have heard that the majority of the turpentine getters are enterprising men and good citizens, more enterprising, even, than the cotton and rice planters. 'Wal, they is enterprisin', 'cause they don't keer for nuthin' 'cep' money.
"That's what we ladled out to the public gin'rally, and to Ferrers and his gang in partickler. We SAID Petalumey, but if you go to Madrono Cottage, San Rafael, you'll find Rosey thar." If Mr.
But, afore I'D take advantage of a lazy, gawky boy for it ain't anything else, though he's good meanin' enough that happened to fall sick in MY house, and coax and cosset him, and wrap him in white cotton, and mother him, and sister him, and Aunt Sukey him, and almost dry-nuss him gin'rally, jist to get him sweet on me and on mine, and take the inside track of others I'D be an Injin!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking