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Updated: June 3, 2025
"That," returned Hunky Ben, in a soft voice, as he glanced mildly at the speaker, "that is a sentiment I heer'd expressed almost exactly in the same words, though in Capatchee lingo, some time ago by a Redskin chief only he said it was pale-faced devils who troubled him. I wonder which is worst. They can't both be worst, you know!"
"That will be hard, too a mighty tough difficulty, now, strannger to be hanged for other folks' doings. But, I reckon, he'll have to make up his mind to it." "Oh, no! don't say so, now, my friend, I beg you. What makes you think so?" said the anxious pedler. "Why, only from what I heer'd you say. You said so yourself, and I believed it as if I had seed it," was the reply of the simple countryman.
"I daresay I'm very stupid for being so ignorant, father; but I never heard of it. You know I've spent most o' my life inland with old Auntie Bess, an' only come here this year. "Mayhap," continued Haco, shaking his head gravely, "you've never heer'd, neither, o' the Lifeboat Institootion." "Never," said Susan meekly.
"So you agree, of course, with Mr Bertram in condemning the use of the pipe." "Condemn the pipe?" said Bounce, pulling out his own special favourite and beginning to fill it "wot, condemn smokin'? No, by no means wotsomdiver. That's quite another kee-westion, wot we hain't bin a disputin' about. I only heer'd Mr Bertram a-talkin' about obst'nitness an' argementation."
My mammy was scared of the Gray's and when she heer'd they was comin', would hide us three boys in some white folks cellar until they was gone. They would take all the young niggahs with them they could get hold of, and soon as they'd gone, we would go back home. When the wah was over, me and some boys went over to the battlefield and foun' a calvary gun which I had for years.
I heer'd her tell her paw, who was aroun' ag'in workin' after his busted laig got well, she'd give ten years o' her life for any ol' cheap pianner he could skeer up fer her. "'Wal, says he, 'how in tunket am I a-goin' ter git anything like that thirty miles off'n the road, an' nary way o' freightin' it up or down the cañon to this camp?
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