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It then was proposed that the five take some other house, and abandon me to my fate. "To this old Sarah vigorously objected, and said: "'I'se nevah gwine to fo'sake dat po' sick white baby who 'minds me so powerful much of my own little Mandy Car'line just 'fo' she j'ined de angel band! "This settled that proposal.
Over in the corner Mam' Henry mumbled over her pipe, "Wha'd I tell you? wha'd I tell you?" and Aunt Sophy replied, "Hit's de pa'able of de mo'nin' stahs." "Don't talk to me 'bout no mo'nin' stahs," the mammy snorted; "Gawd jes' fitted dey voices togeddah, an' den j'ined dey hea'ts. De mo'nin' stahs ain't got nothin' to do wid it."
"The other day the hull Tribe j'ined to attack an' capture a big Grizzly and was licked bad, when the War Chief Sapwood came to the rescue an' settled the owld baste with one kick on the snoot. Deeds like this is touching. A feller that kin kick like that didn't orter be called Sapwood nor Saphead nor Sapanything. No, sirree! It ain't right.
I know jest how it is myself; the spirit is willin', but the flesh is weak. The Babtists was shoutin' 'Glory Hallelujah' and Uncle Jim Matthews begun to sing, 'On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, and pretty near everybody j'ined in till you couldn't hear your ears. The rest of us was about as flustered as Amos.
"Yes, I guess the trail's about as near home as I'll ever get, mebbe, but I'd have no sorter use for it if I j'ined your bunch." "How's that?" "Well, now, I guess that 'd be kinder hard to explain to you, Dick." The trail suits me, all right, yes. But I hit it when I want to, an' keep off it when I'm taken that-a-way.
When when did you say the ceremony'd be performed?" "Hold on," said Jud, "now, we've studied this thing all out for you. You're a Mormon the only one of us that is a Mormon openly." They all laughed. "Openly " he went on "you've j'ined the Mormon church here up in the mountains." "But we don't practise polygamy now" said Joe. "That's only on account of the Grand Jury and the law not yo' religion.
It's the cooking, and the natur', and the not going contrairy. B'lieve Miss Dolly would go contrairy to a hangel, if her was j'ined to him three days." "Prejudice! prejudice!" the housekeeper replied, while shaking her finger severely at him. "You ought to be above such opinions, Mr. Swipes, a superior man, such as you are.
He sat there for hours spitting, an' swore he'd brain anybody who interrupted him, an' arter a little while Mike Rafferty went up and j'ined him, an' it the fust mate's ears didn't burn by reason of the things them two pore sufferers said about 'im, they ought to. "They was all doing full work next day, an' though, o'course, the skipper saw how he'd been done, he didn't allude to it.
Yo' see, Cun'l Chahmb'lin's place j'ined ourn, an' it looked jes' ez natural fur dem two chil'en to marry an' mek it one plantation, ez it did fur de creek to run down de bottom from our place into Cun'l Chahmb'lin's.
The Boston morning paper lay before Cap'n Amazon, opened at the page containing the shipping news. His glance dropped to the sailing notices and with scarcely a moment's hesitancy he said: "Curlew, Ripley, master, out o' Boston. I knowed of her knowed Cap'n Ripley," and he pointed to the very first line of the sailing list. "If Abe got there in time he like enough j'ined her crew."
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