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Howsumever," sez I, "I don't say but what that power is powerful, to the ones that have it, only I wuz merely observin' that it never wuz my way to lay speechless or holler much not that I consider hollerin' wrong, if you holler from principle, but I never seemed to have a call to." "You would be far better if you did," sez Trueman's wife, "far better. But you hain't good enough."
Sez I, "not mutch we wont," and I made a powerful effort to get awa from her. "This is plade out," I sed, whereupon she jerkt me back into the seet. "Leggo my coat, you scandaluss female," I roared, when she set up the most unarthly yellin and hollerin you ever heerd.
"Snake, it'd been sense to fetch a pack along," drawled this newcomer. "Reckon so, Jim. But we didn't, an' what's the use hollerin'? Beasley won't keep us waitin' long." Dale, lying still and prone, felt a slow start in all his blood a thrilling wave.
And I stood still, and listened; and then I heard a awful katouse and rumpus, and then I heard hollerin'; and then I heard Josiah's voice, and somebody else's voice, a talkin' back and forth, sort o' quick and excited. Now, some wimmen would have been skairt, and acted skairt; but I didn't. Pretty soon the door opened right by the side of the table, and in come Josiah Allen and a strange man.
Here's a sperrit," said the lan'lord, a smile once more beamin on his face, "which will talk through him like a Dutch father! I'm the sperrit for you, young feller!" "You're a helthy old sperret," I remarkt; and then I saw the necessity of gettin him out of the hall. The wimin was yellin and screaming, and the men was hollerin' perlice. A perliceman really came and collerd my fat fren.
"Never seen such woods," said Ephraim, "scrub oak and pine and cedars and young stuff springin' up until you couldn't see the length of a company, and the Rebs jumpin' and hollerin' around and shoutin' every which way. After a while a lot of them saplings was mowed off clean by the bullets, and then the woods caught afire, and that was hell." "Were you wounded?" asked the President, quickly.
Your wife tells me, Zeb, that the only time you ain't thinkin' about dinner is when you think of breakfast or supper. We ain't so hungry here that we get up to eat in the middle of the night. What's the matter? Hettie Peters is hollerin' at you; did you know it?" "Did I know it? Tut! tut! tut! I'd known it if I was a mile away, 'less I was paralyzed in my ears.
"Why," said the boy, "I had a long jump to make from one town to another, and, as there weren't any customers between, I rode in the train. The only other passenger in our car was a young fellow, asleep. All of a sudden he woke up in his seat, and begun hunting all through his pockets. First I thought he had lost his ticket, for he kept hollerin', 'It's gone! I've lost it!
Hollerin' was the nighest to work of anything I see them fellers do, unless 'twas tearin' up papers and shovin' the pieces down somebody's neck or throwin' 'em in the air like a play-actin' snowstorm. "'What's the matter with 'em? says I. 'High finance taken away their brains? "But Phinney was awful interested. He dumped some money in a mine once.
Armstrong looked at him in amazement. "Why, Mr. Winslow!" she exclaimed, and burst out laughing. Jed groaned. "I know how Jonah felt after the whale unloaded him," he drawled. "That woman all but had me swallered. If you hadn't been here she would." "Jed!" shouted a voice outside. "Jed, where are you?" Mr. Winslow raised his head. "Eh?" he queried. "That's Sam hollerin', ain't it?"
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