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Besides, hit meks a difference when a gal's paw and grandpaw and great-grandpaw was feud-followers. A feud-follower teks more killin' then ordinary folks. Her maw was subjec' to cramp colic afore her." "But this isn't cramp colic," Miss Fletcher urged, "it's her appendix, and it wasn't taken in time." "Well, ain't they goin' to draw it?" he asked irritably. "Ain't that whut we're here fer?"
"Hyeah, hyeah's de docyment dat meks you yo' own ooman. Tek it." During all the time that it had been out for show that night the people had looked upon it with a sort of awe, as if it was possessed of some sort of miraculous power. Even now Viney did not take hold of it, but shrunk away with a sort of gasp. "No, Ben, you keep it. I can't tek keer o' no sich precious thing ez dat.
"What you s'pose he up to now?" asked Zenas, looking over his shoulder. "I dunno but I bet you he plumb da'nted. Zenas, lak I tol' you man may hab plenty debbilment, rip en t'ar, but he'll stan' back whenas a ooman meks up her min' she stood enough." And Aunt Dolcey had never heard of Rudyard Kipling's famous line. "Dat chile might kill he'se'f."
John Calvin was now the only advanced pupil; Henry had entered Transylvania University, and neither Betsy nor Susan were in school. "Cissy's goin' on sixteen, an' hez eddication 'nough," said her mother. "It don't do gals no good to be too book-l'arned jes' meks 'em uppish an' no-'count." Mr. Rogers submitted to his wife's decree.
"I wuz bawn in Murfreesboro on Stones River. I dunno how ole I ez en hit meks me 'shamed ter tell peeple dat, but mah mammy would hit me in de mouth w'en I'd ax how ole I wuz. She say I wuz jes' tryin' ter be grown." "Mah mammy's name wuz Frankie en mah daddy wuz Henry Ken Kannon. Don' member much 'bout mah mammy 'cept she wuz a sho't fat Indian 'oman wid a turrible tempah.
He ate gingerly of the tempting meal she prepared, and refused to have his bed straightened before he went to sleep. "Huccome you put yer pillow on the floor?" she asked. "I ain't believin' in feathers," he answered sullenly; "dey meks me heah things." In vain Amanda tried to cheer him; she recounted the affairs of the day; she gave him all the gossip of the Order of the Sisters of the Star.
My companion rode away proudly, the medal dangling at his waistcoat lapel. "Jerushy Jane!" said he, presently, as he pulled rein. "Ain't a-goin' t' hev thet floppin' there so meks me feel luk a bird. Don't seem nohow nat'ral. Wha' d' ye s'pose he gin me thet air thing fer?" He was putting it away carefully in his wallet. "As a token of respect for your bravery," said I.
You are so verree lovelee so awfullee prettee, an' all thot sort o' talk, 'at a dog o' sense mebbe thinks nowt on, tho' he bides it by reason o' his breedin'. An' then I meks him joomp ovver my swagger-cane, an' shek hands, an' beg, an' lie dead, an' a lot o' them tricks as laadies teeaches dogs, though I doan't haud with it mysen, for it's makin' a fool o' a good dog to do such like.
She say Virginia pretty good, but dat South Callina tek de cake. She say South Callina mek 'em run ebery time! Yaas'm! 'n' I gits up 'n' I meks her er curtsy, 'n' I say ter her, 'Dat's er pretty way ter talk when you're visitin' in Virginia, 'n' ef dat's South Callina manners I'se glad I wuz born in Virginia! Yaas'm.
'I know the master's shorter o' money than iver, an' it meks no end o' difference i' th' housekeepin' her bein' here, besides bein' obliged to have a charwoman constant. 'There's fine stories i' the village about her, said Mr. Tomms. 'They say as Muster Barton's great wi' her, or else she'd niver stop here.
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