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She weighs two forty if she weighs a ounce. Oh, I knowd John would git her as soon as I seed him a puttin' them green blinds on his house. Ma'm, nothin' round here ketches a widow woman like green blinds. Swoppin' any hosses lately, Brother Fetterson?" "Traded off a nag yesterday. Didn't know but I might strike a swop with you to-day."
"Where the mischief did you get that rig, Jordan?" asked Sedgwick. "I brung it with me from ther old ranch; that is, all but the hoss. I didn't know but I mighter want ter ride, and I knowd I couldn't sit an English saddle a minit." "And why did you come away, Jordan?" asked Sedgwick.
Different times there was other genlmen come down Tom-all-Alone's a-prayin, but they all mostly sed as the t'other 'wuns prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded to be a-talking to theirselves, or a-passing blame on the t'others, and not a- talkin to us. WE never knowd nothink. I never knowd what it wos all about."
Way I knowd for certain it was freedom Mr. John Griffin had all the slaves that hadn't done went off come to the house and he told them they was all free. Some of em just started walking the roads till they nearly starved. The government didn't start feeding the slaves till so many nearly starved. My mother cooked on nearly a year. Then she went to work for Vaughn in Edgefield County.
Then I got ill, an' knowd nothin' for weeks They said I was orf my chump. An' then I came back 'ere to see gran'." "Cuss ye," said the old woman, but in such a tender tons that it sounded like a blessing. "And did the people who took you in never tell you anything about the murder?" asked Calton. Sal shook her head.
Ov coorse he wur throwed in his tracks. "Now, you'd a-jumped up, an' frightened the rest away that's what you'd a done, strengers. But you see I knowd better. I knowd that so long's the critters didn't see my karkidge, they wan't a-gwine to mind the crack o' the gun. So I laid still, in behopes to git a wheen more o' them.
"I think so," replied the Governor, "but the snow's so thick I can't see;" he opened the window and put out his head. "Are we nearly there, Hosea?" "We des done pas' de clump er cedars, suh," yelled Hosea through the storm. "I'ud a knowd 'em ef dey'd come a-struttin' down de road dey cyarn fool me. Den we got ter pas' de wil' cher'y and de gap in de fence, en dar we are."
She's quality yere on arth an' she gwine ter be quality in Hebin. I knows a heap 'bout you an' you'se pa. I knowd him 'fore you did. I'se seed him in de gran' ole house in Meetin' Street a dinin' agin an' agin wid Marse Wallingford an' my deah Misse Mary, den a bride, an' de gran' ole Major Buggone.
"You bet you don't!" he reiterated, and added in shrill venom: "I might 'a' knowd how 'twould be when I throwed in with a mucker like you." "Careful, Slim go slow!" Bruce's eyes were blazing now between their narrowed lids, but he did not move. His voice was a whisper. "That's what I said! I'll bet your father toted mortar for a plasterer and your mother washed for a dance hall!"
In fact, I start for Rome by the first train to-morrow to sit as a model to a celebrated artist who is about to sculp a statue to be called Sweet Innocence. Do you s'pose a sculper would send for me for that purpose onless he knowd I was overflowing with innocency? Don't make a error about me." "It is my opinyn," said the leading female, "that you're a scoffer and a wretch!
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