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Byers thought the boy would presently come to take the garments home, and conceal his share in the matter, before any one else would be likely to stir abroad. "An' I'll hide close by with a good big hickory stick, an' I'll gin him a larrupin' ez he won't furgit in a month o' Sundays," he resolved, angrily.
"Ye air the deceivinest sandy-headed Pyrite that ever war on the top o' this mounting, an' ye knows it," Birt retorted in high good humor; "an' ef it war wuth my while I'd gin ye a old-fashion larrupin' jes' ter pay ye fur the trick ez ye played on me. But I ain't keerin' fur that, now. Stan' back thar, Tennessee!"
Each great hulking fellow doffed his cap to her and bade her a respectful "Good-night" as he passed, "Feathery" Joltram pausing a moment to utter an "aside" in her ear. "'A fixed oop owd Arbroath for zartin zure!" and here, with a sly wink, he gave a forcible nudge to her arm, "An owd larrupin' fox 'e be! an' Matt Peke giv' 'im the finish wi's fav'rite! Ha ha ha!
"Have you fetched in the black cow?" 'We ain't got no black cow, but I knowed what she meant. I says "No, I couldn't find her." "You catch old Johnny Smoker and look for her till you do find her, if it's ten o'clock to-night," says mother, very fierce. "Your father'll give you a fine larrupin' if he comes home and there's that cow lost."
Fur 's that was concerned, all his boys used to ketch it putty reg'lar till they got too big. One on 'em up an' licked him one night, an' lit out next day. I s'pose the old man's disposition was sp'iled by what some feller said farmin' was, 'workin' all day, an' doin' chores all night, an' larrupin' me an' all the rest on us was about all the enjoyment he got.
This with a conciliatory air, for Bainton had a little reckoning at the 'Mother Huff' and desired to be all that was agreeable to its proprietor. Buggins snorted a defiant snort. "Oliver Leach indeed!" he ejaculated. "Meek an' quiet suits him down to the ground, it do! There's a man wot's likely to have a kindly note of warnin' from my best fist, if he comes larrupin' round my place too often.
She just cut loose on the two of them, and chased them through the sloughs and up the road clear home larrupin' them with a binder whip, as fast as she could swing it the yowls out of them would have done your heart good!" Mrs. Watson stopped her work, with her floury hands raised in consternation. "God's mercy," she cried, "did Pearl do that and both of them bigger'n her.
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