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Kicking one foot from the wooden stirrup and hitching sideways in the saddle, he prepared for an effort. "Little feller, he is. Ain't as tall as Preachin' Bill even, an' fat! I gonies! he's fat as a possum 'n 'simmon time. HE don't walk, can't; just naturally waddles on them little duck legs o' hisn.
Ezra Gold, seein' as I'm this way. I'm told he wants to part with that shorthorn cow of hisn, and I'm allays game for a bit o' trade." "Ah!" said Mrs. Sennacherib, shaking her doleful head. "He'll part with everythin' earthly, poor man, afore he's much older." "Why," cried Snac, "what's the matter with the man?" "The young uns see nothin', Miss Blythe," said Mrs.
"Why, mine's twenty carats better than hisn!" exclaimed the Cripple. "And mine better 'n either," growled Dan. "Mine's the best of the lot." "No, it isn't; mine is," yelled others, till there was a general roar, which caused Miss Musgrave to look frightened and shrink nearer to the Scholar, and that gentleman to raise his hand for silence.
I could see all the while that the varmint's eyes wur fixed upon mine, an' I never tuk mine from hisn; I know'd 'twur the only way to keep him still. "I wur jest prospectin' what ud be the eendin' o' the business, when I seed we wur a-gettin' closter to the timmer: 'twan't more 'n two miles off, but 'twur all under water 'ceptin' the tops o' the trees.
Christopher as was such a friend!" he said: " you don't disremember what he used to say about the Almighty and that? You remember as how he used to say a man could no more get out o' the sight o' them eyes o' hisn than a child could get out o' sight o' the eyes on his mother as was a watchin' of him!"
He tole me positively he was a lawyer from Chicago, an' had an office in the Y.M.C.A. Building. An' the idee of him tellin' me he wanted to see if my pockit-book had better leather in it than hisn!" The fact that the school children, big and little, loved Miss Banks possessed no point of influence over their elders of the feminine persuasion.
The judge spoke up and says: "Search him, sheriff." Well, sir, the sheriff he ransacked him high and low, and everywhere: searched his hat, socks, seams, boots, everything and Tom he stood there quiet, laying for another of them effects of hisn. Finally the sheriff he give it up, and everybody looked disappointed, and Jubiter says: "There, now! what'd I tell you?"
Bachelder was settin', with his legs curled up under him, mendin' sail, and he begun to spin one o' them yarns o' hisn, with his voice pitched up middlin' high, and the boys, they begun to laugh and cheer.
He climbed a hill and came plump upon a fence, wire-strung, wire-stayed, aggressively barring his way. "Dilly's about the most thorough-minded man I ever met up with," he mused, half annoyed, stopping a moment to survey critically the barrier. "Yuh never find a job uh hisn left with any loose ends a-dangling. He's got a fence here like he was guarding a railroad right-uh-way.
They 'lowed ez Luke Todd an' Sam Peters kem hyar 'twar jes night before las' aimin' ter take the mare away 'thout no words an' no lawin', 'kase they didn't want ter wait. Luke hed got a chance ter view the mare, an' knowed ez she war hisn. An' Tobe war hid in the dark beside the mare, an' fired at 'em, an' the rifle-ball tuk Sam right through the beam o' his arm.
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