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When he seen Isbel darn me if he didn't swell an' bustle all up like a mad ole turkey gobbler. "'Greaves, he said, 'if thet fellar's Jean Isbel I ain't hankerin' fer the company y'u keep. An' he made no bones of pointin' right at Isbel. Greaves looked up dry an' sour an' he bit out spiteful-like: 'Wal, Simm, we ain't hed a hell of a lot of choice in this heah matter.
The house IS in the hands of the law. I'm representing it as deputy sheriff. Mebbe you might remember me Jake Poole when your father was addressing the last Citizen's meeting, sittin' next to him on the platform I'M in possession. It isn't a job I'm hankerin' much arter; I'd a lief rather hunt hoss thieves or track down road agents than this kind o' fancy, underhand work.
"P'raps you're right, dad," he commented imperturbably, "and agin p'raps you're not. It's all well enough to say appoint a new marshal, but as fer's I've been able to discover there's no one hereabouts hankerin' fer the job." He spat at a crack in the cottonwood floor meditatively, struck true, and seemed mildly pleased.
He looked at her, and followed her gaze to the screen. "Oh," he said, and cogitated. "An' why shouldn't we?" he added. "Oh, Billy, will you?" Her lips trembled in her eagerness, and her whisper broke and was almost inaudible "Sure," he said. It was his day of royal largess. "What you want is yourn, an' I'll scratch my fingers off for it. An' I've always had a hankerin' for the country myself. Say!
Below lay the valley, its forests of pines and cedars looking like a black lake in the clear moonlight. "Git down, men, an' let's 'tend to business an' go back home," commanded the leader. "I have a hankerin' atter a hot breakfast." Everybody alighted except Westerfelt. The leader touched him with his whip. "Will you git down, or do you want to be drug off like a saddle?"
With 'leven folks on a small farm nuthin' c'd afford to be eat that c'd be sold, an' ev'rythin' that couldn't be sold had to be eat. Once in a while the' 'd be pie of some kind, or gingerbread; but with 'leven to eat 'em I didn't ever git more 'n enough to set me hankerin'." "I must say that I think I should have liked the canal better," remarked John as David paused.
You're free enough, ain't you?" "Yes, it isn't that but I couldn't." "You ain't hankerin' after George, are you, Gabriella?" "After George? No!" responded Gabriella with so sincere an accent that Miss Polly jumped. "Well, I'm glad you ain't," observed the seamstress soothingly as she stooped to pick up her sewing.
I remember him well, Bandy, although I was only a boy at the time; go on he was always a dishonest scoundrel it was said proceed." "Well it seems, Antony, sir, mistook him for a Protestant parson; and as he had a hankerin' afther the goold, he opened a gusset in the man's throat that same night, when the unsuspectin' traveller was sound in that sleep that he never woke from in this world.
Another was desired to "come out of that hat." A big veteran, laying his hand on the shoulder of a small, scared-looking, little victim, and wiping his own eyes upon his old hat, whined out, "I say, buddy, you didn't bring along no sugar-teats, did you? I'm got a powerful hankerin' atter some."
If he don't he's a bigger fool 'n I am. Nuthin' in 'em but tin that's wuth somethin'. Warranted t' hold water." 'Wall ye know how that editor talks? 'Twant a day 'fore the head man o' the biler business come 'n bought 'em. An' the advertisement was never put in. Guess he wan't hankerin' if hev his business spilt. Uncle Eb was not at the supper table that evening.
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