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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I ain't no gin'ral, nor corp'ral, nor nothin'," remarked Oncle Jazon to Colonel Clark, "but 'f I's you I'd h'ist up every dad dinged ole flag in the rig'ment, w'en I got ready to show myself to 'em, an' I'd make 'em think, over yander at the fort, 'at I had 'bout ninety thousan' men.
Thar ain't a log-rollin' ner a house-raisin' in our neck of the woods thet Jeb Hawkins ain't sent fer. I kin h'ist a barrel with the best of 'em, and shake up Ole Dan Tucker ez peart ez the next one. Now how about yer scholards? This here horspittle is full of 'em.
"Well, come on back here and help h'ist it out. We're in a hurry to get back to town why it's only a kid!" as Jerry came up. "Who's going to help you handle it? It's in two five-gallon cans." "I guess I can manage it all right. I've got some friends waiting down on the river bank." "All right; it's your funeral. There you are, sealed, signed and delivered."
Good cribs to hold his corn, instead of leaving it on the stalk, or tuckin' it away in holler sycamore logs, good pump to h'ist his drinkin'-water with, good help to keep up with the work why, ther hain't a man on Matalette's whole place that don't look smart enough to run a farm all alone by himself.
Bob Peet seized him by the arm, and led him away up the beach. "Cap'n," he said, looking round to make sure that they were out of hearing of the others, "I can't touch a lady not seamanly! But 'f you say the word knock gen'l'm'n feller middle o' next week. Say the word, Cap'n! Good's a meal o' vittles t' me h'ist him over cliff!"
Then, after school, during recess, and for long minutes before the afternoon session, the alley which flanked the school yard was marked with rings of varying dimensions. The air resounded with cries of, "No hudgins," "H'ist," "Your shot," or "You dribbled," as the players contested for prizes of five- and six-for-a-cent clay marbles.
"Cripes! that vessel was certainly a clipper for goin'! Her cap'n was wise enough to keep to wind'ard, for he seemed to know where the rough water begins to rise and how to make the most o' them keys. Never mind; off Nor'west Cape he'll have to come out like a seaman and take his duckin'! H'ist that there jib, Billy, and make Dave move his carcass where it'll do some good."
Set out over a hundred years ago, those elms were." "Spray from the breakers flew clear over the top of the bank here," said Zach. "That's some h'ist for spray, hundred and odd feet. I wan't here to see it, myself, but Cap'n Jeth told me." "You were in a more comfortable place, I hope," observed Galusha. "Um we-ell, that's accordin' to what you call comf'table.
So I told those lads to h'ist the tent an' get supper ready more to cheer them than anything else an' then I lit the pine torch I'd brought along, and struck into the cavern, bent on going clear through if I could, and the rest of my story you fellows know. It was a narrow escape, I tell you." "It was the worst adventure I ever had," said Ned.
"Shall we h'ist 'em?" "Not jest yet, boys: I have a few words to say, first." Then turning half-about in the doorway, Deadwood Dick continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, a little tragedy is about to take place here soon, and it becomes necessary that I should say a few words explaining what cause I have for hanging these two wretches whom you see here.
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