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"Ask him if he don't need a little cash to pay for hog-killin', or something like that." He laughed again. "No, I didn't graduate at Ann Arbor. Funny how things go, ain't it? I was on my way back the third year, when I stopped in to see the pit it's one o' the sights of Chicago, you know and Billy Krans saw me looking over the rail. I went in, won, and then took a flyer on December.
"I low they're makin' a regular hog-killin' of it," said Eph smartly. Hannibal descended from the fence. "Yes, you can show me my chamber," he said, and his tone was severe. What a white man did was not a matter for a black man to criticize. They went toward the open door of the tavern. Mr. Slosson's corn whisky had already wrought a marked transformation in the case of Slosson himself.
Occasionally, as at "hog-killin' time," the poorest live in abundance; occasionally, as at Christmas, they will go on sprees. But, taking them the year through, the Highlanders are a notably abstemious race. When a family is reduced to dry corn bread and black coffee unsweetened so much and no more it will joke about the lack of meat and vegetables.
"Yes, indeedy; there's where the jar came into our tender relations. Oh, I call on the Governor always when I've got a wad. I have fun with him." He smiled brightly. "Ask him if he don't need a little cash to pay for hog-killin', or something like that." He laughed again. "No, I didn't graduate at Ann Arbor. Funny how things go, ain't it?
Stillman, after a few mouthfuls of the savory food had apparently put him in a better humor, "I think we'll have fine weather for hog-killin' next week, and I never did have a finer lot of hogs." "Oh, father," said Margaret, "don't butcher next week. Friday is Christmas day and " "Christmas!" interrupted her father. "Well, we always butcher Christmas week, don't we?"
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