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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Pa got raised from one dollar and a quarter to one dollar and a half just six weeks from the day Pearl left, lackin' two days," and Mrs. Evans gave Mary a new "stuff" dress, "on the Frida' as Pearl left or the Thursda' three weeks before," and, moreover, the latest McSorley baby was born "on the Wednesda' as Pearl was comin' home on the Saturda' four weeks after."
And, until you've seen a few men called out of their shacks for a friendly conversation, and shot when they happen to look away; or asked for a drink of water, and killed when they stoop to the spring; or potted from behind as they go into a room, it's pretty hard to believe that any man can be so plumb lackin' in fair play or pity or just natural humanity.
It came all right, that is, it got as far as the post-office, but the postmaster, he handed it over to Balaam Hamilton, to bring to me. Well, Balaam is well, his underpinnin's all right; he wears a number eleven shoe but his top riggin' is kind of lackin' in spots. You'd understand if you knew him. He put the letter in his pocket and " "Mercy!" cut in Serena, impatiently, "what do you suppose Mr.
Sure, it's what you might call the Hello-Central of the whole Four Peaks country, with cow paths instead of wires. The only thing lackin' is the girls, to talk back, and call you down for your ungentlemanly language, and well, this country is comin' up every day!"
"Humph!" grunted the clerk. "Don't you know " " lackin' six " " the sun sets at ten minutes to seven!" " lackin sixteen minutes forty-two seconds and a quarter," pursued Robin, with head bent as if he were looking at a watch. "Oh, you be hanged! Your old watch is always slow." "My watch? Dis heah watch?" He turned, buttoning his coat carefully. "You know whar dis watch come f'om?"
We've been excusin' of ourselves by saying poverty has paralyzed us, and we couldn't do this and we couldn't do that, because we didn't have the cash. Well, I'm here to say it ain't so. What we've been lackin' ain't so much the money as the spirit, and it's took a woman to make us find it out."
He sho' mus' be crazy to go out in such weather's this, 'n what's mo', to expect me to." "He seemed to know the right person to apply to." "That's the trouble with me. Ah'm that lackin' in good sense Ah do anythin' anybody asts me to 'cos Ah'm flattered to be ast!" "Does he say he's sick?" "He don' say so, but he looks powerful res'-less 'n wild-like.
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