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Updated: June 16, 2025
"There ain't much left of me but bones and pain, ma'am. I'm powerful glad to see you all the same. Dust off a chair, Patsey, and let the lady set down. You go in the corner, and take turns lickin' the dish, while I see company," said Joe, disbanding his small troop, and shouldering the baby as if presenting arms in honor of his guest. "Why didn't you let me know how sick you were?
But we give 'em awful lickin', Jowin oh! smash um down right and left; got you out de canoe dead, I think, but no, not jus' so. Bring you here Raratonga. De Cookee missionary an' his wife not here; away in ship you sees im make. Native teecher here. Dat teecher's wife bin nurse you an' go away jus' now. Ship comes here for trade, bound for England. Ams got doctor.
"I-i-if I was to, I'd have to take a terrible lickin'." "Mm." The one-eyed man seemed to understand; then, presently, "Your paw? or your maw?" "No relation at all," protested Johnnie. "Just the man where I live." "He feeds y' O. K.," put in the other. "I was noticin' back yonder in the chuck-house how plump y' are." Johnnie said nothing.
Wa'al, it wa'n't the lickin' I got, though that had somethin' to do with it, but I'd never have had the spunk to run away's I did if it hadn't ben for the heartenin' Billy P. gin me, an' never knowed it, an' never knowed it," he repeated mournfully. "I alwus allowed to pay some o' that debt back to him, but seein' 's I can't do that, Mis' Cullom, I'm glad an' thankful to pay it to his widdo'."
"Then your going to git the alfiredest lickin' you ever had in your life," announced the mountain boy. Tad held the other with a gaze so steady and unflinching as to cause the mountain boy to pause hesitatingly. "Phil, jump on your pony and get out of here," directed the lad in a low tone. "He stays where he is," commanded one of the cowboys. "Do as I tell you," retorted Tad sharply.
Her breath was almost gone, but she rallied her forces for a grand finale. With a curtsy to the bedpost and hands all around, she dashed into the rollicking ecstasy of the "Mobile Buck": "Way up yonder in de moon, Yaller gal lickin' a silver spoon. Cynthy, my darlin', who tol' you so? Cynthy, my darlin', how do you know?" As she dropped panting on the floor, something arrested her attention.
Or mebbe some old bull'll be after givin' him a lickin' fer interferin', and he'll come home to us!" To which his wife retorted with calm superiority: "Ye're a bigger fool'n even I took ye fer, Jabe Smith." But the young bull did not come back that winter, nor the following summer, nor the next year, nor the next.
"Coom, then, and i'll show yo'," he said, and led the way out of the yard. And there below them on the slope to the stream, sitting like Justice at the Courts of Law, was Owd Bob. Straightway Sam'l whose humor was something of the calibre of old Ross's, the sexton, burst into horse-merriment. "Why's he sittin' so still, think 'ee? Ho! Ho! See un lickin' his chops ha! ha!" and he roared afresh.
"Why, Pete ought to be big enough to lick you alone, Strong," continued the tantalizer. "Hey, Pete! Don't sneak out. Come and tell us why you didn't give this chap the lickin' you said you was going to?" Pete only glared at him and slunk out of the store. Hiram turned his back on the whole crowd and waited at the end of the counter for Mr. Schell.
It's not yore business," the worried victim of circumstances declared with an attempt at dignity. "Say, don't I know it? If I hadn't promised Blister But what's the use? I done said I would, an' I got to go through." "I'll let you off yore promise." Dud shook his head. "Wish you could, but you can't. It was to Blister I give my word. No, sir. You gotta take or give a lickin', looks like.
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