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Updated: May 15, 2025
The skins crept on the ground, and the joints of meat lowed on the spits while roasting. The wind becoming fair they sailed from the island. They had not gone far when the weather changed, and a storm of thunder and lightning ensued. A stroke of lightning shattered their mast, which in its fall killed the pilot. At last the vessel itself came to pieces.
ACCEPTING the invitation, I presently found myself dining with Mrs. Bivins, and listening to her remarkable flow of small-talk, while Mingo hovered around, the embodiment of active hospitality. "Mingo 'lowed he'd ast you up," said Mrs.
I'll lock up, said the girl, interrupting him. Vanyusha brought Olenin the wine and announced that 'La fille c'est tres joulie, and, laughing stupidly, at once went out. Meanwhile the tattoo had sounded in the village square. The people had returned from their work. The herd lowed as in clouds of golden dust it crowded at the village gate.
"Where did they go, Polly Ann?" I asked. "Acrost the Mississippi, to the lands of the Spanish King," said Polly Ann. "And where in those dominions?" I demanded. "John Saunders took 'em as far as the Falls," Polly Ann answered. "He 'lowed they was goin' to St. Louis. But they never said a word. I reckon they'll be hunted as long as they live."
"Me'n Luke's been talkin' it over," she said, with some embarrassment; "we 'lowed you mought mebby be willin' to put up with us; we've got a spare room, an' you know about how we live. You've lied unmercifully ef you don't like my cookin'," she concluded, with an awkward little laugh. "I never lie," he retorted, smiling.
He bowed his chin once more upon the instrument, and again the slow drawling conversation proceeded to soft music. "Ef ye'll b'lieve me," said the advanced thinker, "I never war so conflusticated in my life ez I war when he stood up in meetin' an' told 'bout'n the tables of the law bein' on the bald! I 'lowed 'twar somewhar 'mongst some sort'n people named 'Gyptians."
The doctor looked up in surprise, but Farmer Green soon explained his meaning, making out a most aggravated case, and representing Maddy as wild with delirium. "Keeps talkin' about the big books, the Latin and the Hebrew, and even the Catechism, as if such like was 'lowed in our school. I s'pose you didn't know no better; but if Maddy dies, you'll have it to answer for, I reckon."
Well, dat day Plutarch was lowed to visit next plantation, and dey bring him home mazin' drunk stupid as owl, his mout open and he couldn't speak, and his eye open and he couldn't see.
The time the fust man come down through heah to talk about buildin' the railroad, he done said, like I tol' you Cunnel Blount said, that we might git some stock kilt fer a little while, till things kind o' got used to it, you know; but he 'lowed that the railroad would sort o' pay for anything that got kilt like, you know." "Pay! The railroad goin' to pay you!"
He 'lowed they'd found out thet you'd done shot Purvy thet time, an' he said" the brakeman paused to add emphasis to his conclusion "thet the next time ye come home, he 'lowed ter git ye plumb shore." Tamarack scowled. "Much obleeged," he replied. At Hixon, Tamarack Spicer strolled along the street toward the court- house. He wished to be seen.
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