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Louis only a week or so before we come. Bein' asked why she left Miss Louise she wuz more reticent, only remarking that after Prince Arthur went to college she wanted a change, so she had strolled over to South America, and from there to Asia and so on to Chicago where she wuz hired as nurse to Miss Dotie, and when her ma died and the child wuz taken by its great-aunt, Miss Huff, she had been willing to help the latter through the Exposition, for she wuz a nice woman and didn't lack.
If the stranger does not take the hint, and retire at the first huff, he is chased, over and under trees and through branches, so violently that leaves rustle and twigs are thrust aside, as long as the patience or wind holds out. On one occasion the defender of his homestead kept up a lively singing all through the furious flight, which lasted six or eight minutes, a remarkable thing.
"Well, if I don't know I can guess; but I never thought a Huff " "Oh, you make me tired!" exclaimed Virginia, spitefully. "I'm staying here to watch that mine." "That mine!" The Widow repeated it slowly and her eyes opened up big with triumph. "Virginia, do you mean to say you got the best of that whipper-snapper and " "No, nothing of the kind! No! Can't you hear me?
"Well, you know I wouldn't do that," said Grace in a huff, adding maliciously, "I guess you are just jealous, that's all." "Uh-huh, that must be it," said Betty, with an unruffled good-nature that made Grace secretly ashamed of herself. "I'm sorry, Betty," she said after a rather long pause, adding generously: "You don't need to be jealous of anybody." "Thanks," Betty answered, with a smile.
At Oxford he earned a degree with honors. His musical instructors include Speidel, Lebert, and Pruckner, at Stuttgart, Huff the contrapuntist at Frankfort, and Vannucini, who taught him singing, at Florence. He made also a special study of light opera under Genée and Von Suppé.
Stiff Neck George had been Blount's gunman on the momentous occasion when they had tried to jump the Paymaster and the Widow Huff had put him to flight with one blast from her trusty shotgun. But now that big interests were sending in their experts and mining was picking up everywhere Stiff Neck George might forget that humiliating defeat, so Death Valley Charley put on his six-shooter.
This with a conciliatory air, for Bainton had a little reckoning at the 'Mother Huff' and desired to be all that was agreeable to its proprietor. Buggins snorted a defiant snort. "Oliver Leach indeed!" he ejaculated. "Meek an' quiet suits him down to the ground, it do! There's a man wot's likely to have a kindly note of warnin' from my best fist, if he comes larrupin' round my place too often.
"I'm payin' for a quick ride and not conversation." Brackett clapped the reins along his nag's skinny flank, set his elbows on his knees, and began: "There was old Hip Huff, who went by freight, To Newry Corner, in " "Luff, luff!" snorted the Cap'n, in disgust. "Luff, luff?" queried the songster. "Yes, luff! Avast! Belay! Heave to!
The hull family loved and petted her from Miss Huff and her old father down to Billy, who alternately petted and teased her. To Aunt Tryphena she wuz an object of perfect adoration. And Aunt Tryphena wuz a character uneek and standin' alone. When she wuz made the mould wuz throwed away and never used afterwards.
The desperate character of Pres Huff is evidenced by the records of the United States Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in the suit of the McGinnis heirs for land in Fentress county.
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