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Updated: May 27, 2025
It came to pass, after a week of pitiful anxiety, that the Medical Officer pronounced Bill safe once more. "Bloke says I'm not goin' ter peg art," he told me. I congratulated him and remarked that his wife would be thankful when he met her, on her arrival, with such splendid news. "I'll 'ave the larf of my missus," said Bill.
"It is an awful place," she said faintly. "Yes, it am a awrful good place," said Dinah, with satisfaction. "Not easy to find you yar; an' if dey did git dis lengt' widout breakin' dere legs, dere's a nice leetil hole yar what you could git in an' larf to youself." She led the poor girl to the other end of the room, where, in a recess, there was a boarded part of the wall.
How they'll all larf and crow, when they see me a thrashin' away at the hoss, and then him goin' slower, the faster I thrash, and me a threatenin' to shoot the brute, and a talkin' at the tip eend of my tongue like a ravin' distracted bed bug, and offerin' to back him agin, if they dare, and planken down the pewter all round, takin' every one up that will go the figur', till I raise the bets to the tune of fifty thousand dollars.
We smile to see laugh spelled larf, just as we should to see scarf spelled scaugh, or scalf, as in half; and we forget that this perception of apparent incongruity is entirely the result of long habit in us, and has no natural foundation, and that children can not be sensible of it, or have any idea of it whatever.
These critters feel no interest in anything but cent per cent; they deaden public spirit; they hain't got none themselves, and they larf at it in others; and when you add their numbers to the timid ones, the stingy ones, the ignorant ones, and the poor ones that are to be found in every place, why the few smart-spirited ones that's left are too few to do anything, and so nothin' is done.
Dat story do smell rader tall, dat are a fac; yah, yah, yah, and I fell down and rolled ober and ober on de grass, and it's lucky I did, for as I dodged he fetched a back-handed blow at me wid his huntin' whip, that would a cut my head off if it had tooked me round my neck. "My missus larfed right out like any ting, tho' it was so hot, and when missus larf I always know she is good-natured.
An' I reckon it'll be de same wid him?" looking at Mr Croft. Miss Annie assured her that she and her companion would be certain to "sit solemn," and that they would not think of such a thing as going to church and behaving indecorously. "Dar is white folks," said Aunt Patsy, "wot comes to a culled chu'ch fur nothin' else but to larf.
He swore he'd never come back again while Lobelia 'Ankins was there. "'That's it, says he, 'larf at a feller critter's sufferings. I honly wish she'd try to kiss you once, that's all! "Well, I couldn't make him budge, so I decided to go back and get the lay of the land.
If you would, I'd try my colt out of my old wagon agin you, I vow. 'Let's look at your horse, says he; so away they went, and a proper sight of people arter them to look at colt, and when they seed him they sot up such a larf, I felt e'enamost ready to cry for spite.
"An' he sez, 'What for don't yer like him, den? "An' I sez, 'Dunno, on'y jes' kase he's sech a gran' rascal. "Den he larf fit ter kill, an' say, 'Dat's so, dat's so, boy. Den he take out his pencil an' write a word er two on a slip o' paper an' say, "'H'yer, boy, yer gibs dat ter Marse Si War', soon ez yer gits home. D'yer heah?
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