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"I wouldn't hawf liked the jobe meself, do ye kneow. They're forty years apiece, and as hard as nails." Mrs. Saulisbury looked up from her walnuts. "Sam is ready to carry the olive club to Mr. Ramsey. 'The poor beggar, as he has called him all along, will be a gentleman from this time forward."
He came to the kingdom of Kharachar, which extends along the borders of the desert of Jobe; then after five days' further travelling over sandy plains, where there was no water fit to drink, he rested for eight days in the city of Lob, a place now in ruins, while he prepared to cross the desert lying to the east, "so great a desert," he says, "that it would require a year to traverse its whole length, a haunted wilderness, where drums and other instruments are heard, though invisible."
I told him in a dignified manner that I certainly did not; that had I known she was about to jibe I would most certainly have jobe with her; that personally I preferred any amount of jibbing, however painful, to being drowned first and then beaten to death. I demanded to know why he had assaulted me upon the head and what he did it with. It developed, though, that he had not struck me at all.
You are loyalist also. You would not disturb to the peaceful Europe? Captain, I tell you this. Your Queen she know too. She would not fight her cousins. It is a a hand-up thing." "What?" "Hand-up thing. Jobe you put. How you say?" "Put-up job?" "Yes. Put-up job. Who is hurt? We win. You lose. All righta?" Bai-Jove-Judson had been exploding at intervals for the last five minutes.
"Well, it went on for a month, an' I got the old man's note, sent by the sheriff: "'To Hillard Watts, Wher-Ever Found. "'Come on home an' fetch yo' preacher. Can't afford to loose the filly, an' the gal has been off her feed ever since you left. "'Jobe Galloway.
Jobe Dean and Gus Abington who came to Trenton from their home near La Grange, Tennessee were responsible for the popularity of these sports in Phillips County and it was they who promoted the most spectacular of these sporting events and in which large sums of money were wagered on the horses and the game cocks.
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