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Updated: May 13, 2025
Crabtree shut up the store before eight o'clock and put on his Sunday coat to come over and set on the front steps a-visiting of her, and in less'n a half hour that Bob Nickols had whistled for her from the corner, and she stood at the front gate talking to him until every light in Sweetbriar was put out, and I know it muster been past nine o'clock. And there I had to set a-trying to distract Mr.
"They isn't any school for cul'ud folks less'n a mile an' a half away, an' besides, you hasn't clothes fitten to wear. The scholars would all laugh at you." Still he persisted. "What put such a notion in yo' head, anyhow?" she demanded. John Jay turned his face aside, and busied himself with taking another reef in his suspenders. "The Rev'und Gawge wanted me to go," he said, in a low tone.
When is two aw! pshaw! you make me laaugh so I can't ax it at all! When is two raace hawses less'n one?" "Aw, sheh! I kin ans' that in five minutes! I kin ans' it in one minute! I kin ans' it now! Two hosses is " "Hol' on! I said raace hawses! Two raace hawses, I said, seh!" "Well, dass all right, race hosses! Two race hosses less'n one when they reti-ud into the omlibus business."
"Poh!" snorted Hap Smith disdainfully. "Her hang out in that little town of Hill's Corners? Seein' as she ain't ever been there, havin' tol' me so on the stage less'n two hours ago, what's the sense of sayin' a fool thing like that? She ain't the kind as dwells in the likes of that nest of polecats an' sidewinders. Poh!" "Poh, is it?" jeered old man Adams tremulously.
You kin just tell that old maid Stanley that when she's had three husbands and five children an' a step, an' managed to live on less'n ten dollars a week, it'll be time enough fer her to be learnin' me tricks!" "But don't all this mess ever get on your nerves? Don't you ever want to clear out and go to the country?" asked Nance. "Not me!" said Mrs. Snawdor.
He came near choking on a gulp of coffee, and again his knee suffered from the pounding of his great hands. "Huccume you so full of laugh to-night?" she asked, laughing with him. "How you 'spec' I gwine tell you dat less'n I tell you my sec'ut?" "Well, den, go on tell me yo' sec'ut." "Huh uh. You done bet it ain' wuff tellin'." "I don't keer what I bet. I wan' to hyeah it now.
"Say, sonny, do you want to stuff me with the yarn that you've travelled forty-five miles in less'n thirty-six hours, an' count on doin' the same thing right over agin, which is ninety miles in less'n three days?" "I've done the first half of the journey, an' it couldn't have been more'n two hours past midnight when I got here.
He hadn't made no secon' ch'ice yit an', you know, when de fust one of a parted couple marries ag'in, dey 'bleeged to take to de broomstick less'n dey go whar 'tain't known on 'em. Dat's de rule o' divo'cemint. When Yaller Silvy married my Joe wid a broomstick, dat lef' me free for a chu'ch marriage. An' I tell you, I had it, too.
"Walderstricker air comin!" she hissed through her teeth in quivering excitement. "Scoot under the tick, Andy! An', Daddy, get on my cot, an' don't say no word less'n they ask ye something face to face.... Let me do the talkin'." She had no more than settled her father on the cot and heard the last of the dwarf's burrowing in the attic when a long shadow fell across the threshold.
"It's 'bout twenty-nine miles to the mine by the road," the man explained; "but that trail will take you there in less'n twenty. Well, maybe twenty or twenty-one. Or you can go up the road till you get to the big hogback that's where they held up the truck driver yesterday and cut straight up the hill from the south end."
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