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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Has he jined?" asked the blear-eyed Yankee, who had eyed me with much curiosity; but the captain answered "That's my affair, and you keep your tongue still if you don't want me to cut it out; he'll join us by-and-by." "That's agen rules," said the man Roaring John, loafing up with others, who seemed to resent the departure.
Yes, I grow'd up in slavery times. I used to carry tubs of clothes down to the old spring house, there was plenty of water, and I'se washed all the clothes there. Me and my sisters used to wash and sing and we had a good time. I can't remember much of the ole song's its been so long ago. I had two brothers, and they jined the war and fought in the army. One was named Harry and 'tother Peter.
Lac' all folks whut goes to dis city, we wend our way to de Capitol to see de Governor. Gov. Futtrell sittin' bac' in his great fine office, saw me and jined me in conversation. De fus' question he axed me wuz 'whut party does yo' 'filiate wif? I sez, 'de Democrat de party whut's a frien' to de nigger. De Governor axed me how does I lac' dis life?
After supper wuz over we sot out to go to the meetin' he had spoke on. It wuz the openin' night of the new library, which wuz in a pretty little buildin' jined onto the meetin'-house and only a few minutes' walk from Ernest and Waitstill White's.
"Suits me all right, sir," he said, "seein' as 'ow I've bin in it a matter o' fifteen year. But between you an' me, sir," he hastened to add, "it ain't like wot it wus when I fust jined. It's full o' noo-fangled notions an' sichlike." "What d'you mean?" I asked in some amazement. "Carn't say no more, sir.
Mahng was the only one who could keep 'em in sight, and when they separated at the foot of the lake, he taking up one side, and she the other, Mahng trailed the one he hated most, which was Songa." "How did you happen to see all this?" inquired the major. "They must have passed from view of your hiding-place very quickly." "Oh, I jined in the hunt, too," replied Truman Flagg.
And up jumps 'Bije Simmons, and calls for three cheers for the new president. "Nobody jined in them cheers but the old billiard room gang; they did, though, every one of 'em, and Jotham smiled fatherly down on his flock. "I s'pose there ain't no need of explainin'. Jotham had worked it all, from the very fust.
"'Feller citizens, sais he, 'we've had a fair stand-up fight for it, and I'm whipped, that are a fact; and thar is no denyin' of it. I've come now to take my leave of you. You may all go to H l, and I'll go to Texas. "And he stepped right down, and went over the boundary, and jined the patriots agin Mexico, and was killed there. "Why it will never be forgot, that speech.
Thought I'd try my han' at openin' gold mines in Californy. Jined a caravan at Fort Leavenworth, 'n' lost my reckonin's back here a ways." We must return to love matters. However amazing it may be that a man who has no conscience should nevertheless have a heart, such appears to have been the case with that abnormal creature Coronado.
With no idea of resentment Martin replied: "You're mighty kind, Greeley, and time was when I'd like to have jined you-all, but now Sandy and me is right companionable and him not being a smokin' man, I'd be mighty lonesome in the circle, and Sandy would miss me to home." "And serves us-all right, too," Greeley said to the club. "Us-all pitting a Hertford agin a Morley!"
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