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If you'll tell me what to do, I'll go into it like a hund'ed of bricks." "You won't need your axe yet," I replied, assured there would be no difference of opinion in regard to the manner of constructing the raft, for my companion had few ideas of his own. "We must build the raft on the stream."
"Silly trick," said the Englishman, grimly. "Why, the dahkeys got they fifteen hund'ed!" "Don't they claim twenty-two fifty?" "Well, they jess betteh not!" "Rascally trick!" "Sir," said John, "Mr. Ravenel is my personal friend. If you make another such comment on his actions I shall treat it as if made on mine." "Come, Come!" exclaimed Gamble, commandingly; "we can't have "
Ah'm go'n' a' raise a hund'ed thousan' yellow-laiged pullets; an' theh's a staihway down to th' watah whah Ah kin tie up mah ole catfish boat, an' a monst'ous big gyahden whah Ah kin keep mah fie'ce look on them mush an' watah melons. Ah don' want t' git into any mo' alterations with them boys, but Ah suttinly will weah 'em out if they don't mind theah cautions.
Yes, Jake's a big swine, wi' the muscle o' two men; but I've seen him git downed, and not a hund'ed mile from wher' we're settin'. Say, Ike," he turned to the man behind the bar, "you ain't like to fergit the night Black Anton called his 'hand. Ther' ain't no bluff to Anton. When he gits to the bizness end of a gun it's best to get your thumbs up sudden." The saloon-keeper nodded.
"After dey moved camp de Marster sont me back home to he'p look after de Mistis an' chillun. De 'Federates had some cattle hid 'way in us pasture an' I looked after 'em. One night when I was comin' home I met 'bout a hund'ed Yankees comin' over a hill. Dey saw de cattle an' took 'bout ha'f of 'em. I skidooed. Dey aint kotched me yet. "After de war de Yankees called deyse'ves 'Publicans.
Why ow pickets, they're there. 'Twould be strange if they wa'n't three hund'ed Blackland county niggehs marchin' on the town to burn it." "Is that really the news?" "That's the latest, seh. We after reinfo'cements." They moved on. Judge March rode slowly toward Suez. John rode beside him. In a moment the Judge halted again, lifted his head, and listened.
"W'en de scuppernon' season 'uz ober fer dat year, Mars Dugal' foun' he had made fifteen hund'ed gallon er wine; en one er de niggers hearn him laffin' wid de oberseah fit ter kill, en sayin' dem fifteen hund'ed gallon er wine wuz monst'us good intrus' on de ten dollars he laid out on de vimya'd. So I 'low ez he paid Aun' Peggy ten dollars fer to goopher de grapevimes.
Yes, sir, guess her tongue's like velvet mostly, but when she turned on that blind hulk of a father of hers wal, ther', ef I was a cat an' had nine lives to give fer her they jest wouldn't be enough by a hund'ed." "Say, Arizona," said one of the men quietly, "what was you yarnin' 'bout? Guess you allus was sweet on Miss Dianny." Arizona turned on the speaker fiercely.
Downstairs, on the way out of the place, if by chance he encountered the warden in his office, the warden, in all likelihood, would say: "Well, how about it this time, Uncle Tobe?" And Uncle Tobe would make some such answer as this: "Well, suh, accordin' to my reckonin' this here one will heft about a hund'ed an' sixty-five pound, ez he stands now. How's he takin' it, warden?" "Oh, so-so."
"Claybank is a good hund'ed miles from here 'n' I couldn't leave the farm now, noways; besides, the day I start a-makin' trips from home, talk'll start, an' I'll be watched close-ter'n what I'm watched now ef that's possible. But th' ain't nothin' to hender me writin' ez I can see."
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