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'I come not here to talk, as they used to say in school. D'd you ever hear that piece?" "Yes," said Mary. "That's taken from Romans, aint it?" "No," said Mary again, with a broad smile. "I didn't know," said the man; "I aint no brag Bible scholar." He put on a look of droll modesty. "I used to could say the ten commandments of the decalogue, oncet, and I still tries to keep 'em, in ginerally.
There were only two passengers in the coach, and they, pale of face and with chattering teeth, joined the little group. "Them shots came from that bunch of chaparral over there," said Buck, "but it's an almighty queer way for road agents to go about a job. They ginerally " "Injuns!" shouted the guard, who had been peering cautiously around the end of the coach.
Some o' the least offensive among 'em are Monkey-face, Screwnose, Cheeks, Squeaker, Roundeyes, and Slidder. I prefers the last myself, an' ginerally answers to it. But, as I was agoin' to say, I'd bin away for a veek, an' w'en I comed 'ome " "To which part of home? for London is a wide word, you know," I said.
Old Doctor Hurlbut's pretty low, ninety-four year old, born in '67, folks ain't ginerally very spry after they're ninety, but he held out wonderful." "How's Mr. Bradshaw?" "Well, the young squire, he's off travellin' somewhere in the West, or to Washin'ton, or somewhere else, I don't jestly know where. They say that he's follerin' up the courts in the business about old Malachi's estate.
'You see it won't do to let him walk here, for when I tried it first, he went straight through the side of the house; but you can tell by the way in which he moves his legs, whether he is able to walk or not. 'That's the way we ginerally gits the p'ints of an animal, returned Baldy, with great complaisance, as he seated himself upon a bench to watch the performance.
I'll always know, arter this, that I can't place no dependence in ye; but, law, ye air jes' like that old gun o' mine; sometimes it'll hang fire, an' sometimes it'll go off at half-cock, an' ginerally it disapp'ints me mightily. But, somehows, I can't determinate to shoot with no other one. I'll hev ter feel by ye jes' like I does by that thar old gun."
"You seem to be planning rather far ahead, aren't you?" "No one has to be a prophet to say a preacher'll have babies. That's ginerally about all they do have." "It's your business, Drusilla; but I can't understand why you want these two very worthy people to marry " "Can't you see through a fence-post, John?
'I don't s'pose yer know me, said the stranger, as he stepped inside and allowed the boy to secure the door behind him. 'I never saw you before. 'I am Baldy Bicknell, though I ginerally go by the name of 'Baldy. 'That's rather an odd name. 'Yas; that's the reason. As he spoke, the stranger removed his hat and displayed his clean-shaven pate. 'Yer don't understand that, eh?
But it ginerally turns out that the whites have had themselves to thank for't." "Ay, that's true," observed Bounce; "some o' the whites in them parts is no better nor they should be. They treats the poor Injuns as if they wos dogs or varmints, an' then they're astonished if the redskins murder them out o' revenge.
I made the remark as how the boys ginerally put up for what they wanted without no fuss, and that if they was sot on havin' a Gospel shack I cherished the opinion" here Gwen went off into a smothered shriek, which made Bill pause and look at her in alarm. "Go on," she gasped.
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