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She an' ol' Billy an' the hosses done took theyselves off this mawnin' jes' 'bout five minutes after my white folks lef." "Didn't she say where she was going?" asked Mr. Bucknor. "She never said 'peep turkey! ter man or beast.
'N' she give me the ole mare, 'n' nine dollars all we had. The mawnin' I left," his voice slipped back into the whispery accents, "she put her arms 'round my neck, 'n' asked me ter make her one promise." "What was that promise? Can you tell me?" "Hit war jest somethin'," he hesitated, flushing.
"Anse, did ary Trantham see you a-gittin' here tonight?" "Nobody that knowed me seed me." "Old Wyatt Trantham, he rid into Manchester this evenin' 'bout fo' o'clock I seed him passin' over the ridge," went on Shem. "He'll be ridin' back 'long Pigeon Roost some time before mawnin'. He done you a heap o' dirt, Anse." The prostrate man was listening hard.
Rafferty didn't turn up for two or three days. When he did appear it was with a simple: "Mawnin, mon." It wasn't until several days later I learned that the late foreman had left town nursing a black eye and a cut on one cheek such as might have been made by a set of red knuckles backed by an arm the size of a small ham.
Fer Abe Shivers you hain't heerd tell o' ABE? Well, you must be a stranger in these mountains o' Kaintuck, shore. "I don't know, stranger, as Abe ever was borned; nobody in these mountains knows it 'f he was. The fust time I ever heerd tell o' Abe he was a-hollerin' fer his rights one mawnin' at daylight, endurin' the war, jes outside o' ole Tom Perkins' door on Fryin' Pan.
Come yistidd'y mawnin'." How Chad beamed all over when this simple statement fell from his lips! I had not seen him since the night when he stood behind my chair and with bated breath whispered his anxieties lest the second advent of "de grocerman" should bring dire destruction to the colonel's household. To-day he looked ten years younger.
"The mawnin' of the race ole man Sanford's at the stalls bright 'n' early. He's chipper as a canary. He watches Chick hand-rub the hoss fur a while 'n' then he pulls out a roll 'n' eases Chick two bucks. I pipes off the roll. The ole man sees me lookin' at it. "'Ah intend to wageh moderately today, he says. 'And Ah have brought a small sum with me foh the puhpose.
Lenore took the front seat in the car beside the driver. He showed unconscious response to that action. "Jake, aren't you coming?" she asked, of the cowboy. "Wal, I reckon it'll be sure dull fer you without me. Nobody to talk to while your dad fools around. But I can't go. Me an' the boys air a-goin' to hang some I.W.W.'s this mawnin', an' I can't miss thet fun."
It's a long ride out nearly fifty miles by wagon-road. Flo, don't forget a couple of robes. Wrap her up well. And hustle getting ready. We're waiting." A little later, when Madeline went out with Florence, the gray gloom was lightening. Horses were champing bits and pounding gravel. "Mawnin', Miss Majesty," said Stillwell, gruffly, from the front seat of a high vehicle.
I's one o' de ole Blue hen's Chickens, I is! an' den I see dat young man stan' a-starin' an' stiff, lookin' kin' o' up at de ceilin' like he fo'got somefin, an' couldn't 'member it no mo'. Well, I jist march' on dem niggers so, lookin' like a gen'l an' dey jist cave' away befo' me an' out at de do'. An' as dis young man a-goin' out, I heah him say to another nigger, 'Jim, he says, 'you go 'long an' tell de cap'n I be on han' 'bout eight o'clock in de mawnin'; dey's somefin on my mine, he says; 'I don't sleep no mo' dis night.
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