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Dis yer peth head is Hannibal's head, en dese yer pepper feet is Hannibal's feet. You take dis en hide it unner de house, on de sill unner de do', whar Hannibal'll hafter walk ober it ev'y day. En ez long ez Hannibal comes anywhar nigh dis baby-doll, he'll be des lak it is light-headed en hot-footed; en ef dem two things doan git 'im inter trouble mighty soon, den I'm no cunjuh-'oman.
"No woman never had to put up with all I hafter put up with not even Job's wife! There! all the water's gone ag'in. I do wish you'd mend that pump, Jason." But Jason had departed, and only a faint smell of tobacco smoke trailed him across the yard. Janice tried to help her aunt and that was not difficult. Almira Day was no rigid disciplinarian when it came to housekeeping.
"You see," he added, "we needn't stay thar longer'n a year or so. We'll git the money an' then come back an' buy a good piece of land." Suddenly he stopped and fired this point blank at Jud: "But see heah, Mister-man, is thar any niggers thar? Do we hafter wuck with niggers?" Jud looked indignant. It was enough. At the end of an hour the family head had signed for a five years' contract.
Little boys and girls fighting like savages for a bare existence. The chums were silent the rest of the way to the old brick house just a "slice" out of a three-story-and-basement row of such houses, which Inez announced to be "Mother Beasley's." "Sometimes she's got her beds all full and you hafter wait for lodgin's. Mebbe she'll let you camp in her room, or in one of the halls up-stairs."
'The day hafter, went on Curly, 'if it be fine I may be a hawkin' horinges. I likes a change o' work, and another pal takes my crossin' when I'm elsewhere. Day follerin' I may be out o' town. 'In the country? I wish you'd take me. How do you go? 'I rides mostly, said the boy, with another wink. 'I ain't perticlar as to my wehicle! 'And when you get into the country what happens?
En w'en de man w'at come ter bring Lightnin' Bug tol' Sis' Becky her pickaninny wa'n't dead, Sis' Becky wuz so glad dat she 'lowed she wuz gwine ter try ter lib 'tel she got back whar she could see little Mose once mo'. En w'en she retch' de ole plantation en seed her baby kickin' en crowin' en holdin' out his little arms to'ds her, she wush' she wuz n' cunju'd en did n' hafter die.
He knew the different habits not principles of his nature were at work for mastery. Finally the hypocrite habit prevailed, when he said piously: "We have sowed the wind, Archie B. we'll hafter reap the whirlwind, like paw says." "Go!" shouted his brother. "Go!" and he helped him along with a kick "Go, since I can't save you. You'll reap the whirlwind, but I won't if my brains can save me."
Bivins, smiling a dubious little smile that was not without its serious suggestions, "but I tightened up my apern strings, an' flung my glance aroun' tell hit drapped on the battlin'-stick, bekaze I flared up the minnit I seen 'er, an' I says to myse'f, says I: 'If hit's a fracas youer huntin', my lady, I lay you won't hafter put on your specs to fine it. An' then I says to Pud, says I
There was a short silence, broken by Billy, who remarked, apropos of nothing: "I sho' is glad I don't hafter be a 'oman when I puts on long pants, mens is heap mo' account." "I wouldn't be a woman for nothing at all," Jimmy fully agreed with him; "they have the pokiest time they is." "I'm glad I am going to be a young lady when I grow up," Lina declared, "I wouldn't be a gentleman for anything.
"Jest because ye acted silly and left that money open for the fust comer to pocket, ye hafter run about an' squeal, layin' it all to the fust person that come that way. If Mr. Middler or Elder Concannon had come inter that school buildin', I s'pose it'd ha' been jest the same. You fellers would aimed ter put it on them one or t'other. I'm ashamed of ye."
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