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"Why, I've just bought what so many of your fellow-countrymen call the 'Noo Ma'sh," answered Desbra. "I have got it for twenty dollars an acre, and it's worth a hundred any day! I've got the deed, and the thing's an accomplished fact." Jessie looked grave, and removed herself from her lover's embrace in order to lend impressiveness to her words.
"I've got to eat an' run," said he; "Job Fisher kep' me. It's about that ma'sh. But the time wa'n't wasted. He'll sell ten acres for twenty dollars less'n he said last week. Too bad to keep you waitin'! You'd ought to eat yours while 't was hot." Letty, with a little smile all to herself, sat demurely down and poured coffee; this was no time to talk of anniversaries.
"I told them chillen they shouldn't put thar foots in that ma'sh on the branch, gettin' wet and draggled and catchin' colds and chills," she explained to her husband. "But they begged so hard I told 'em to go on and have a good time. Maybe it won't hurt 'em. They're good-mindin' gals.
Indeed, though he shaded his eyes with his hand and made a prolonged examination of the outlook, nothing different from ordinary was visible; and, after a moment's reflection, he sought Aunt Sally and reported: "Well, Mrs. Benton, I 'low I'm doomed to that dose of picra, for I I You see " "Ephraim Ma'sh, where's them children?" "That's just exactly what I'd like to know myself, neighbor." "Huh!
I asked in the same guarded tones. "I done got somefin' to tell you. While I ketchin' a lil' bit of sleep 'longside that white trash Mo'ton's place, I done heah dey all plannin' to git out warrant for to arres' Massa Fairfax and Massa Pine and Massa Ma'sh for a-killin' dem men las' week; and I heah dem say dey gwine fer to gib dem trial, and if dey fight dey gwine done shoot 'em."
Well, laddies, we're all back in here together again, and auntie wants you to tell Mr. Ma'sh where you got that candy; who give it to you; what for; where you saw that sneaky snake, Antonio Bernal; what you've done with the staff wand; and all the rest of it? 'Forty-niner' is a man and a gentleman "
Temporarily, the senor was resting in the household sitting-room, but it was evident should not long remain there. "Where then? Hate him as we may, we can't let him die on our hands," said Samson, looking as black as he could. "Don't you fret yourselves, 'boys," said a cheerful voice near the group. "Mr. Ma'sh and me, or me and Mr.
If Sarah Ma'sh, she that was a Harrison, and married Methuel, hasn't got gumption enough to bile her own plum puddin', I 'most feel as if she'd ought to go without. Though I don't know as that's real Christian in me." "Dear Mrs. Benton, I wish everybody was as sincere a Christian as you are." In her surprise, Aunt Sally tipped her rocker so far back that she just escaped upset.
He hardly expected any reply but the astonished "Caw!" of the crow, who sat upon a fence watching him with gloomy interest, and when a cheerful "Hullo, there!" sounded from the lane, he was so grateful that tears of joy rolled down his fat cheeks. "Come on! I'm in the ma'sh.
He had no sticks, however, and, casting about in his mind for a good substitute for the genuine thing, bethought him of bulrushes. "Those will do first-rate, and there are lots in the ma'sh, if I can only get 'em," he said to himself, and turned off from the road on his way home to get a supply.
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