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It was rather tiresome to wind up nights, as the key didn't give you much leverage, and if your hold happened to slip, you was likely to fall down and hurt yersilf. But here we are, as Jimmy O'Donovan said when he j'ined his father and mother in jail." When they reached the camp-fire, it had burned so low that they threw on considerable more wood before sitting down to their lunch.
You see, I've reformed consid'r'ble since -since last summer, and I j'ined a surveyin' crew; axeman now, rodman later, if I'm good, an' " "But why did you want to see me? Was it about this boundary question?" "Oh, you admit there is some question about it, after all?" "Are you trying to pump me, Terrill?" asked Ralph, shrewdly suspicious.
"Honey, I's gittin' up a little collection fer de church. You gib me a nickel and I punch a pin th'u' one ob dem dots to sorter certify it." "Have you got religion yet?" he asked as he handed her some small change. Her expression changed, and her eyes fell. "Not yit," she acknowledged reluctantly; "but I's countin' on comin' th'u' before long. I's done j'ined de Juba Choir and de White Doves."
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.
But they don't linger over this trophy; dooty calls 'em, so they stores the sleigh in a barn an' rides away to further honors. "'We never do hear of Jeff none all through that war but once. After he's j'ined Stonewall Jackson, I recalls how he sends home six hundred dollars in confed'rate money with a letter to my father. It runs like this: In camp with Stonewall Jackson.
I'd love to go back to the big bush with you." "I'll tell the Great Father that you're a born bush man. Mebbe he'll let ye go. They'll need us both. Rum, Injuns an' the devil have j'ined hands. The Long House will be the center o' hell an' its line fences 'll take in the hull big bush." That day Jack's name was included in the order.
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