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I'm in a hurry," grumbled Bogle. "Wal, come back a minute a man broke his neck in a hurry. What you goin' to dew with Sculpin, eh? He hooked your log-chain, I heern," said Troffater. "I'm goin' to see Square Fabens agin to-morrow, and try and fetch the feller to justice. Sculpin may be sorry for this. I know what I ken prove," said Bogle. "I don't b'lieve the Square will try 'im.
"When Deely died," Mrs. Bivins went on, waving a towel over a tempting jar of preserves, "they wa'n't nobody but what was afeared to break it to Emily Wornum, an' the pore chile'd done been buried too long to talk about before her ma heern tell of it, an' then she drapped like a clap er thunder had hit 'er.
But discretion is better than valor, I have heern tell; so I made the trade, and here I am." "We had no difficulty getting across at Parkville," said Mr. Bryant, "except that we did have to go over in the night in a sneaking fashion that I did not like." "Well," answered the stranger, "as a special favor, they let us across, seeing that we had had such hard luck.
Now, Cynthy Ann, my dear" here Cynthy Ann began to reproach herself for listening to anything so pleasant as these two last words "Now, Cynthy Ann, my dear, you see you might maybe love a cuckle-burr and nuss it; but I don't think you would be likely to. I never heern tell of nobody carryin' jimson-weed pods in their bosoms.
I hain't forgot a mean trick they sarved me two yeern ago, up thar by Santer Fe." "And so you have joined the volunteers?" "That's sartin. But why ain't you a-gwine to Mexico? That 'ere's a wonder to me, cap, why you ain't. Thur's a mighty grist o' venturin', I heern; beats Injun fightin' all holler, an' yur jest the beaver I'd 'spect to find in that 'ar dam. Why don't you go?"
Seems like it was only yesterday or the day before that I heern the Old Man callin', "Mudder, mudder, I wanter tell you sumfin'," and that I seen him put his arms around her neck 'nd whisper softly to her. It had been an open winter, 'nd there wuz fever all around us. The Baxters lost their little girl, and Homer Thompson's children had all been taken down.
Wall, sir, he went West, way aout hyar to Californy, 'n' he couldn't stay thar nuther, 'n' he came back hum agin; 'n' I wuz bigger then, a gal grown, 'n' daddy sez to him, I heern him, 'Wal, sez he, 'did Claiborne foller yer? 'Yes, sez he, 'he follered me. I'll never git shet o' him in this world. He's allers clost to me everywhar. Yer see, 'twas jest his conscience er whippin' him.
The same man, at different times, may say can't and cain't, set and sot, jest and jes' and jist, atter and arter or after, seed and seen, here and hyur and hyar, heerd and heern or heard, sich and sech, took and tuk there is no uniformity about it. An unconscious sense of euphony seems to govern the choice of hit or it, there or thar.
And 'wretch' yourself! And how dare you lay your hands on me? on me, as has heern enough this precious night to send you down to the bottom of Bottommy Bay, to work in de mud, wid a chain and a weight to your leg, you rascal! and a man with a whip over your head, you vilyun! 'Stead o' standin' dere sassin' at me, you ought to go down on your bare knees, and beg and pray me to spare you!
'Yes, says he: 'I be de messenger ob de Lord, an' my name is John Brown, but I don't s'pose yer ebber heern tell ob it. 'No, massa, says I, 'we don't see no powerful sight ob angels down in de rice-swamps. 'Well, keep a-watchin' an' a-waitin', says he, 'an' yer will heer from me ag'in. Wid dat de driber come up, and he tole him he guessed he wouldn't buy me dat day; and den he went away.
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