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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Well, I'll be tee-totally danged," exploded the settler. He got up suddenly and turning his back to his guest, knocked the burnt tobacco from his pipe against the stone arch of the fireplace. "I guess I better rake the ashes over these here coals," said he, "'cause if I don't an' the cabin took fire an' burnt us all alive Eliza'd never git done jawin' me about it."
He was on a steamer, his passage paid into the wide and wonderful world a thousand leagues beyond Lundy Island. King dropped him with a snarl. "He doesn't know. He'll go on correctin' exercises an' jawin' an' showin' off before the little boys next term and next." Beetle hurried after his companions up the steep path of the furze-clad hill behind the College.
And to the audience he sang, "Oh, ain't it great to have a little girlie you can trust for life!" They were still muttering angrily as they came off. The handclapping had been faint. "Aw, for God's sake, stop your jawin'!" half screamed Florette. "It ain't no more my fault than it is yours. If they don' like us they don' like us, tha's all." She ran up the stairs, sobbing. Howard followed her.
"I was goin' to. I started, one afternoon. An' after I'd knocked, I heard him jawin'. Well! You never heard a man talk so in all your life. I never did, anyways! twittin' her with everything under the sun." "Nice for you," said Raven, "butting in on a row." "I didn't butt in," said Charlotte. "I turned round an' come straight home.
"A preacher that can jine a man when he's histin' liquor into him, without jawin' about it, ought to be allowed to wrestle with sinners and splash about in as much cold water as he likes," was the criticism of one of his converts. Nevertheless, it was true that Father Wynn was somewhat loud and intolerant in his tolerance.
'Course, he wa'n't like white folks; but I was fightin' crazy with the fever, not sick enough to go to bed, but jest sittin' around and jawin' at things. I dunno how he come to take such a likin' to me. Might 'a' been on account o' my size we was about the same build. I'd set and jaw at him, callin' him names.
"I put up with his drunken yellin' till I felt the bucket bump the first level. Then I sez, 'Now, my gen'leman, hand over that bottle o' tipperary, an' scat out o' this! There it is," the Sheriff laid a black square whiskey bottle on the desk. "He began jawin' an' cuttin' up gineral.
No; some er de niggers foun' her ketched on a snag along heah in de ben', en dey hid her in a crick 'mongst de willows, en dey wuz so much jawin' 'bout which un 'um she b'long to de mos' dat I come to heah 'bout it pooty soon, so I ups en settles de trouble by tellin' 'um she don't b'long to none uv um, but to you en me; en I ast 'm if dey gwyne to grab a young white genlman's propaty, en git a hid'n for it?
But how about my job if I ride back to Stacey with nothin' to show for the trip but my expense card?" "Buck Hardy isn't a fool," said Torrance. "Oh, hell!" said Lorry, turning to the deputy. "I'll go back with you. I'm sick of jawin' about the right and the wrong and who's to blame. But I want to say in company that I'll go just as far as the county line of this county.
Slick, "holdin' the high and dignified station I do, as Attache, they will be a-pumpin' me for everlastinly, will the great men here, and they think a plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on; we have tried all them things they are a jawin' about here, and they naterally want to know the results.
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