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Thank God for that! Oh, I'm so happy! my boy, my boy! There's nothing like squills and God's blessing." Rolf and Quonab were made to feel that they had a part in it all. The governor shook them warmly by the hand, and then a friendly voice was heard: "Wall, boy, here ye air agin; growed a little, settin' up and sassin' back, same as ever."
Kings an' magistrates an' slavery didn't look so bad to 'em as they do now. Our brains have changed that's what's the matter same as the soil has changed. We want to be free like other folks in this country. America has growed up around us but here we are livin' back in old Holland three hundred years ago. It don't set good. We see lots o' people that don't have to be slaves.
By this time Leander's children had growed up; all on 'em wuz marr'd, and there wuz numeris grandchildren to amuse the ol' gentleman.
Henchard has never cussed me unfairly ever since I've worked for'n, seeing I be but a little small man, I must say that I have never before tasted such rough bread as has been made from Henchard's wheat lately. 'Tis that growed out that ye could a'most call it malt, and there's a list at bottom o' the loaf as thick as the sole of one's shoe."
And he began it after a spell of silence by asking, quiet like, "Have you been happening to think much about Selina Johns this last year or two?" "Most every day," answered Billy. "So have I," said Abe, and seemed to be pondering to himself. "She'll be a woman growed by this time," he went on. "Turnin' twenty-seven," Billy agreed. "That's of it," said Abe. "I've been thinking about her, constant."
Dat bunch on dat side has growed over and met dat bunch on de oder side, and den dey've growed togedder in one big knot, and den I catches mine foot under and tumbles down. Dat ish funny for te grass to grow dat way."
Miss Anne she hed done mos' growed up too wuz puttin' her hyar up like old missis use' to put hers up, an' 'twuz jes' ez bright ez de sorrel's mane when de sun cotch on it, an' her eyes wuz gre't big dark eyes, like her pa's, on'y bigger an' not so fierce, an' 'twarn' none o' de young ladies ez purty ez she wuz.
Mamie whimpered a little as she replied. Mamie had a habitual whimper and a mean little face, with a wisp of flaxen hair tied with a dirty blue ribbon. "Yes, ma'am," she replied. "Jessy she growed so she couldn't git into 'em, and mummer " The boy, who was very thin, almost to emaciation, and looked consumptive, but who was impishly pert, cut in. "I had to wear Jessy's shirts," he said.
These here pullet spasms over the hatching of the first brood ain't in no way unusual. The way you have forgot chicken habits since you have growed up is most astonishing to me, after all the helping with them I taught you."
That jest suited 'em to a T, an' always after that she wuz called leetle Lizzie, an' it sot on her, that name did, like it was made for her, an' she for it. We made it up then perhaps more in fun than anything else that when the children growed up, Cyrus an' leetle Lizzie, they should get marr'd together, an' have both the farms an' be happy, an' be a blessin' to us all in our old age.
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